Tuesday, June 28, 2011

I love Fed-Ex and UPS!!

I'm outta town for the week, but my wife let me know that three packages showed up yesterday.  I suspect the following:
  1.  75 Yards of 24oz Biaxial fiberglass tape
  2. Bronze screws and ring shank nails
  3. New-used 10-1/4 inch Milwaukee circular saw (for scarfing jig).
Have settled for a "working title" for the boat - The Curds-n-Whey. I work at a cheese mfg plant.

Saturday, June 25, 2011

The Plan

Here is the design


Specs:
• Length Overall 26'0"
• Length Waterline 22'8"
• Beam 8'5"
• Draft 1'2"
• Displacement 4800 Lbs.
• Headroom 6' 3"
• Fuel Capacity 100 Gal.
• Deadrise at Transom 12 deg

Building scarfing jig

Spent the afternoon building a scarfing jig so that I can start joining plywood panels.  Should finish the table / jig tomorrow and start making 26 foot long sheets of plywood.

Materials

Prototype of the Alfred W Davis
Truck Load of Boat


Glue and some plywood