Thread: BETH -YuanFen- Building a wooden sailing canoe in Poland - Budowa drewnianej kanadyjk

Must be liberating after this long time thinking to be marking some wood!

Exciting.
MIK

Originally Posted by Boatmik

Must be liberating after this long time thinking to be marking some wood!
Exciting.

Yes Michael!
Indeed!!!
I have alredy 3 sheets of 4 mm waterproof birch plywood in my garage too.
Hoping for progress

I have alredy 3 sheets of 4 mm waterproof birch plywood in my garage too.
Hoping for progress

I've traced points of sides (no curves yet).

If you can get one or two pics up occasionally that would be great Robert!!!

MIK

Originally Posted by Boatmik

If you can get one or two pics up occasionally that would be great Robert!!!

I promise! I will continue this work tomorrow

Today was very cold and rainy day. I've no worked with plywood but I've prepared another CAD drawing of Beth's sails along the Michael's lines (suggestions):

Today was beautiful day - no rain, warm... good for hardworking boatbuilder ...

I've traced curved lines of bottom and sides and I've cutted off sides from 4 mm ply.
Sides are ready for glue.

Few photos soon - I can't upload photos to my Flickr Hoping than tomorrow morning will be better...

Question for Boatmik - Moderator:
Can you change title of this thread to "Beth - YanFen - building in Poland"?

UFFF! I've uploaded photos to Flickr... than...

Tracing cuves for sides - I've used 1/2" PVC NIBCO tube and few brics:



Tracing curve for bottom - the same methode :


Note: All points designed by Michael are very accurate - with no problems I've traced fine curves !!!



Cutting off sides with 2-3 mm outside marigin - I've used hand jigsaw (I've not trusted in my electric jigsaw) - cutting off 4 mm ply was "with pleasure" but I suppose than cutting off bottom from 6.5 mm ply will be harder... :


I've used few timber boxes for apples from our fruit garden:


Sharp shaping wih plane:


Two panels of sides are ready and they were as a models for tracing duplicate side's panels:


Two complete side panels are ready for glue:


For more photos look there:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/robhosa...7618030604102/

Howdy Robert ... the most important boatbuilding tip is that when you are doing two of the same item for each side of the boat it is ideal to lay everything out in symmetrical pairs as you have with the last photo above.

It is probably the most important thing to avoid serious mistakes (I know you know! But someone else will be reading this!

MIK

Today I was happy to work with may boatbuilding

I've cutted of bulkheads, knees, buttstrap and bottom stiffener, deck camber template and two panels of bottom:


knees...


Bulkhead no. 2


Bulkhaed no 3...


Bottom...


Bottom...


and bottom...


...and another panel of bottom ...


Bottom amost ready for glue !!!




Wow! I have a support!


Wow! One man with a boat and...
...two dogs!

Howdy Robert,

Cant remember if I asked you to send me the CAD drawings of your sails .. I can check against the PDR Offsets if you like.

MIK

Originally Posted by Boatmik

Cant remember if I asked you to send me the CAD drawings of your sails .. I can check against the PDR Offsets if you like.

Thanks MIK,
Today I will send you a drawing - JPG nad DWG files.

Hi MIK

Just wondering, would it be possible to use the PDR Lug mast and sail on the Beth alone, ie, only one mast?

Or as the front mast and sail, and then have the rear one as per plan/ adjusted acording to the PDR front rig?

Just thinking, a Beth would be great for solo sailing where I have to move it around on my own...

What about centre board and rudder?

Cheers....

Howdy Nick,

The PDRacer lug is bigger than BETH's whole rig!

But if you are going to use PDR tech for Beth's sails (ie the better quality polytarp) just make a set for Beth as well. It is only going to cost about $50 or less if you are already set up after the PDR sails.

Remember my caveats that BETH - She is great, but she capsizes pretty easily unless you know what to do.

MIK