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Thread: Mutant goat idea.
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1st December 2014, 03:02 PM #31
Grrr .. wish this would keep the paragraphs and spacings when the bandwidth is not so good
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4th December 2014, 11:44 AM #32Senior Member
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Regarding wider gunwales, I found a real nice 18ft long piece of Douglas Fir and it ripped into 6 equal 19mm wide strips so that's what I used. The stock gunwale is 1x19mm plus a 10mm hardwood cap. Mine is 2x19mm plus a 6mm Mahogany cap.
Now, I'm not advocating anyone do this as it's not a MIK approved modification and if he wants to shut this down I'll meekly slink off to the little rock I crawled out from under.
The gunwale is the focal point of the boat and I like how the extra 15mm of width gives it a bit more umph. I've never sailed on a Goat with a stock width gunwale but I find hiking out not too bad. Being a skinny guy I can use all the padding I can get and often use padded hiking shorts.
There is an aesthetic downside to widening the gunwales unless you are willing to further depart from the design and tempt the wrath of MIK. At the bow, the wider gunwales now protrude further forward of the stem and if you cut them back to the stock overhang you end up with a very blunt nose. I let them run to a point and boy have I gotten a lot of comments about it. Everyone is scared of the pointy bow, but they all want to touch it. I like how it looks. You do have to watch it around docks and a T-bone on a crossing tack would be real ugly. Then again that maneuver is never pretty...
Here's a recent photo showing the gunwale proportions. Pencil sharp!
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4th December 2014, 01:32 PM #33Senior Member
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I'd just taper them towards the bow, so they weren't looking too chunky at the stem.
You know you're making progress when there's sawdust in your coffee.
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4th December 2014, 10:21 PM #34Senior Member
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Those wider gunwales look alright to me. I've been wondering whether leaving the inwales at 19mm instead of 15mm would spoil the aesthetics. Because I'll have to go to extra effort to turn 19mm wood I start out with into 15mm wood. (To get them thicknessed down to 15mm, I won't be going to the place that just charged me $22 dollars to thickness my rudder and centreboard, that's for sure! That's $264/hour by my calculation! And the other option is me ripping them up myself, and I don't always end up with a square bit of wood doing that.) Are they 15mm purely because 15mm looks better than 19mm?
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5th December 2014, 07:31 AM #35Senior Member
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It's more likely the place that thicknessed your board charges in half hour chunks (ie: $44/hr). This is pretty much standard practice for a lot of businesses. Nobody actually charges 1/12 of an hour for five minutes of work.
You know you're making progress when there's sawdust in your coffee.
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6th December 2014, 02:55 PM #36SENIOR MEMBER
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The "Cosmos Mariner,"My Goat Island Skiff
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Starting the Simmons Sea Skiff 18
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7th December 2014, 07:36 AM #37Senior Member
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11th December 2014, 02:46 PM #38
If you have to do it manually and get it right ... the 22 bucks is a bargain I would take every time!
Glad that part is done. Onward!
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11th December 2014, 09:20 PM #39Senior Member
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I went to a woodworking rental establishment, which I guess is why it cost "so much." I've never had to get any timber dressed, but I've always been amazed by how little the timber merchants charge to dress wood. $5/metre rough sawn, $5.50.metre dressed, or something like that. Because planing timber square and smooth is the hard part, to my simple mind.
It's all the excuse I need to go out and buy a thicknesser next time! Bought an electric hand planer last weekend, because the belt broke on my dad's old makita when I was shaping the last corner of the daggerboard. Best thing I've done in ages! That grubby old makita must have been 30 years old! (Replacement belt on the way of course - it can be my metal detecting electric hand planer from now on.)
Edited to add pic of grubby old makita and shiny new hitachi: PC111525.jpg
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