Thread: Flathead

sheesh... someone's in a hurry !!
It's only Sat afternoon here yet.
Lots of weekend still to procrastinate over...
AJ

Ok Bob
have got Management approval for 1400 Sun at Wearing Rd.
Surgeon has forbidden me lifting >2kg (and also sweeping or vacuuming or
mowing ) so may be restricted to spectating & offering
'helpful' comments from the bank...
See you then
AJ

OK job's on for tomorrow . AJ don't forget the daylight saving change tonight - and if I'm late you'll know that I have!

Just a little bit longer PAR - you young blokes are just so impatient .

we get an extra hour's sleep tonight.
If you don't turn up at all, I'll know you forgot & have been & gone again !!

don't forget... change your clock, change your smoke alarm batteries.
if they're more than 10 yrs old, change the whole smoke alarm.

cheers
AJ

Hey PAR...
It's 0340 where you are - are you out of bed yet ?
Want to talk about techniques for splashing puppies.
AJ

Originally Posted by b.o.a.t.

Hey PAR...
It's 0340 where you are - are you out of bed yet ?
Want to talk about techniques for splashing puppies.
AJ

Might be a bit early yet AJ - perhaps we should let sleeping puppies lie.....

Well she was well and truly wet today. She was a bit unstable at times - as you can see in this photo I had trouble staying upright.

Seriously though the news is basically all good - tracks strongly (may be able to reduce the skeg a bit), stable as (insert metaphor of choice here), allows re-entry and although I only did a bit of circle work and short straights it seems to move along easily. The speed capability assessment will really need to wait until I get out with the GPS and the behaviour in waves is another unknown.

One thing that was unexpected was that the hull is too slippery to hang onto when wet so I had to grab the coaming and do a 3/4 on approach when climbing back on.

The seat was a slab of styrofoam about 5" thick shaped to fit. It could easily be trimmed by about 2" to lower the centre of gravity even more.

All in all it's a great relief to know it's not a complete dud after all this work . Now to install the front bulkhead, finish the sanding/varnishing and add some ropes/handles/rod holders etc.

Many thanks to AJ for coming down and taking the photos as well as helping to assess trim at various seat positions.

Originally Posted by labr@

Might be a bit early yet AJ -
perhaps we should let sleeping puppies lie.....

Well she was well and truly wet today. She was a bit unstable at times -
as you can see in this photo I had trouble staying upright.

Only because you were trying to dance or something. I just missed
photographing the really neat falling over thing, & you wouldn't do it again.
Don't know why - you weren't going to get any colder or wetter.

Flathead is probably the wrong name for the boat. Looks so stable you
could go shark fishing in it. Towing said shark back from Neptune Island or
wherever it tired out would be a pain, but do-able.

Load needs to kept well forward - that broad bow generates lots of lift.
Didn't mention it at the time, but I think it would probably take a sail really
well. Would expect it to be hard to bury it surfing too. Once he gets the
bottom varnished, you'll find Bob on Sunday arvo's carving waves off Waitpinga.

Oh, and the praise for the boat from other beach users as Bob was carrying
the boat back to the car got so effusive it was embarrassing.

Good job Bloke !
AJ

Great stuff particularly like pic #8 the trim looks spot on.

Originally Posted by b.o.a.t.

I just missed
photographing the really neat falling over thing, & you wouldn't do it again.
Don't know why - you weren't going to get any colder or wetter.

Dibber dobber!

I gave up on the Flathead idea some time ago and now think of it as "Fatbum" - do you think that's a bit too poetic?

Mike, thanks and yes I am very happy with the way the bottom of the transom sits at the waterline. Can't really claim too much credit for achieving it though as the software provided the forms that enabled the design intent to be met in the real world. That KF program really is very good.

Fatbum...
for a moment there I thought you were referring to me!

Cole Clark calls his acoustic guitar models "Fat Lady"s.
Nice guitars too. Came within a bee's whisker of buying one, only diverted
when the salesman unsportingly dropped the price of a Martin to nearly the same.

But Fatbum... nah.
Stick with a fish. Or a water feature.
(but not "Poo Farm" )

A splendid job, you should feel quite good about everything, congratulations . . .

OK Bob
You've had nearly two years of Flathead & near silence.
How is she working out?
cheers
Alan J

G'Day AJ, it goes well. See thread in the fishing section from a couple of months back.

https://www.woodworkforums.com/f130/k...oduces-158905/

Have logged just under 40 hours in it so far and it's great fun. Went out from Moana mid July and got smacked 6 times before I made it through the surf zone. Stayed upright though so it was all good .

IMG_5006 cropped.jpgIMG_5004 cropped.jpg

There were 2 surfers sitting on boards behind the wave in the first photo and the bloke on the wave ski in the second photo gives an idea of the wave size. Not big by most standards but I headed out just as a set was building - never been able to pick them very well .

Haven't done any capsize practice in the sea yet - maybe this summer. So far it's handled everything so well that I'm starting to become a bit compacent about the need to cope with a capsize.

Just getting started on a SOF build - will do a thread on it a bit later.

If you want a paddling partner sometime give me a shout.