Thread: Building the BMD Flat Chat 16

bought myself a table saw for the boat and many other projects... love it!!

cut up heaps of 9mm offcuts in 20mm wide strips for the under sole cleats

also laminated a heap of ply into a block for the tow eye... and shaped & drilled it ready to be glued in


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at the same time as laminating the tow eye block I made a couple of "doublers" for the micro power pole and ladder that will be glued and glassed onto the transom.

This is dry fitting them making sure i have everything in the right spot... including the Ski Pole placement

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i discovered some sizing issues with the fuel hose i had been supplied and finally got that sorted

prepped for the gluing up of the under sole cleats, tried to find some small clamps at any and all the local hardware & variety stores today to no avail. So after a few wasted hours I ended up cutting up 50mm comms conduits into roughly 25mm wide strips as makeshift clamps and these will be good enough to hold the cleats while the glue cures.

glued up the under floor pipework as well, not before finding all my plumbing PVC cement had looooong expired, so yet another trip to the hardware store was required.
Glued up all the pipework and its now all in place and not going anywhere.

Also cut out bulkhead 2 for my rod locker which is part of my deck extension.

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I have slowly been working through the under sole cleats, its slowly getting there!!

these are from May 8th
i finished my first small tub of glue i got distracted by removing a tree from the backyard and didn't get back into the rest of the cleats but at least i have started!!


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29th May 2021

Making my way through the cleats over the last week or so...

need to put the heater on in the shed a few hours prior to starting thanks to the rapid decrease of overnight temps... but daytime weather has been good enough to be able to drag the boat out and work in the sun :lol: :lol: :shock: :lol: :lol:
Also putting the resin tub in front of a little electric blow heater makes it easily workable after a good shake... i hate working in the cold!!!


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5th & 6th June 2021

still gluing cleats

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7th June

quick glue up to finish off the cleats and get the tow eye block in... hopefully i've done this right

obviously still need to fillet and then glass the block in and re-drill the holes and seal the holes before installing the tow eye.


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8th June

Got back out into the shed... yay progress...

scrap wood, compound angles and a table saw and i came up with this... nothing like being over engineered!! 8-)

Then bogged and glassed!!


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12th June

spent a few days after work cleaning up the cleats, had to adjust a couple that had slipped up due to clamping pressure... whoops

dry fit the cockpit sole, made a few adjustments to ensure a good fit. modified the forward storage sole to suit my requirements.

Prepped the fuel tank sole as well, cut some holes so i can pour the foam inside and glued in rings for each so i can plug them later. Gave the underside a few coats of resin and finally glued in the fuel tank sole... once step closer to foam!!

It doesn't look like i've done much but i have stopped over the past few weeks...lol

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13th June

took off all the paint cans and batteries... it looks good

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14th June

worked out my fuel tank ventilation, intake behind passenger seat.

needed to allow for the deck extension that will be going in.

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put the fuel tank in to see how everything lined up...

the breather hose will go up inside a bulkhead within the front deck extension and beck down to the same location as i'm having the filler.

also cut out the aft cockpit sole to suit... still tossing up whether to have it as a hatch or take the hatch completely removed


planned live well hoses!!
red/blue = inlet & recirculation
orange = overflow

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19th June

Spent some time out in the shed on a couple of projects today...

project one - making a box for my wife's birthday present... its in more pieces than its supposed to be after all the dry glue joints decided they didn't want to stay together.

project two - made a jig for my table saw to make some special looking inserts in the corners of boxes and make them pretty (and hide dodgy corners...lol)

project three - help youngest son with his laminated timber sunglasses case that he has designed and is building when i am sort of free to assist.

project zero - the boat...lol
Dad came around and gave me a hand as i shouldn't be doing much as i had a procedure to remove a lump from my back during the week.
Dad cut out holes for a 40mm pipe for my sounder cables as recommended by one of the guys on the boat building forum.
Dad sanded/prepped the fuel tank sole for filleting and glassing, cleaned up stray glue etc.
I picked up some more pipe and fittings from the big green shed and then we installed it and glued it in as well as the ventilation pipe for the fuel tank.

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And that's it... you guys are now up to date on the journey that is my boat build...lol

Last under sole pipe is in (unless i change my mind again...lol), just need to seal the holes and glue the elbows.

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