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

Hi Boatmik and All again
"Technical" break still...

Yesterday I've recieved ordered two 8" inspection port hatches and two dry stowage hatches. I've found 250/130 mm ones - 250 mm is OK, but 180 mm for vertical dimension would be the best... but I didn't found them. (places for hatches marked and traced this day - ready for cutt off)





Unfortunatelly - ordered epoxy not arrived still...

Hi Boatmik and All

"Technical"break still, but... yesterday I've glued on bottom's joining buttstrap:



...and today I'm glueing bottom's stiffener:



Six bricks, two pieces of lumber and 10 kg of epxy resin in packages - enough as a weight for glueing are, I think so

Nice to see so much weight in one place .. it means that something is happening underneath!

Hi,
Today I'm glueing side panels:





3 bricks for 1 side - weight for glueing plus two clamps and two small nails.

Hi again,
I've fitted inspection port's holes and dry stowage holes to their hatches:







All port holes were fitted by my hands (I haven't special electric tool for it)

Hi Robert,

You don't need to use screws to fit these either - you can glue them in with sikaflex after the boat is varnished.

Make sure the holes are loose enough that they don't change the shape of the plastic hatches otherwise they may be hard to fit and remove.

Work time... sitting in front of a computer I'm dreaming about my sailing canoe Beth -Yuanfen- still.

Recently I've found nice movie of replica of one of Beth's predecessors:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-TNI19FkOg&NR=1"]YouTube - Rushton Princess[/ame]

Gee Robert thanks it is beautiful and the builder looks justifiably pleased.

Mike

Thanks Robert.

John Floutier exhibited at the Beale Park Show and we talked sailing canoes for quite some time. He has some neat touches on the boat, he took great pleasure showing me how his curved pivoting ( but no pivot pin) dagger knocks up on impact and can be retracted, whereas Solway Dory have a pivoting dagger but cannot be removed when pivoted.

At about 3:50 secs into the video you will see his tiller is engaged on a pin so both hands are free. On the tiller where the pin locates he has a very clever rotating tube with a spriral slot. With the pin engaged the tube can be rotated around the tiller and it moves the tiller forward and back just enough to fine tune the course. A very clever detail, and a great enthisiast for sailing canoes.

http://www.floutiercanoes.co.uk/



Brian

Originally Posted by robhosailor

Work time... sitting in front of a computer I'm dreaming about my sailing canoe Beth -Yuanfen- still.

Recently I've found nice movie of replica of one of Beth's predecessors:

YouTube - Rushton Princess

Apart from having a lot more stability and space (and perhaps a little less speed in such a light breeze and a lot less leeway) BETH gives very much this feeling of the sails, rudder and crew position all working together all the time.

Which is why it is so much fun to sail - this interconnected feeling that you really don't get as much in more stable boats.

MIK

Originally Posted by Boatmik

...this interconnected feeling that you really don't get as much in more stable boats.

Is that another way of saying you need to pay more attention to what you're doing when sailing Beth?

Bob

I am in awe of the bloke's ability to stay upright.
Probably might have managed it as a young bloke, but not now.
And I reckon I'm younger than he is !!

Returning ad rem...

Today I have almost all wood timber for hull of my Beth "Yuanfen"



Lumber for mainmast is glued from 3 pieces 20/60mm and 3.7 m long.

Having a pile of timber like that gives a nice feeling of potential!

MIK