Thread: Building a Navigator yawl

Hi Rob, after an initial period of grumbling and looking for where they'd hidden the link(s), I realised that they had gone back to allowing (almost) the original method of selecting links, which I much preferred, and also wasn't being continually presented with "put a linkback in or else our lawyers will eat you" message each and every time. Which makes the "Flickr experience" much more pleasant, for me at least. Better still would be to be able to select which size comes up by default (maybe you can and I haven't looked) and that one could capture the link from it, but as it is currently will do me and I don't want to go stirring up the stew any further and helping make thigs worse again. My other misgiving is that they will realise that they haven't done that yet (shhhhh! ;) and implement it - but maybe they got a lot of luser feedback about that particular little "quirk".

Anyway, it's great that you've got the photos back - I was missing them :).

Cheers,
Alex.

The angle of planing for this row of planks is quite different from the lower ones, and the stringers end up almost triangular in places. Here a scrap is being held up to test the planing for angle and depth.



Dry fitting the first long board in the next row of planks, with rain on my back and wind blowing my beanie off.
I was able to cut and dry fit two boards in less than ten minutes, but the weather made further work a bit pointless. The seat bases will be finally shaped before this row is glued. Here the bottom edge has been preliminarily planed and the top edge is still over sized. I'm using temp screw on the bottom edge and clamps on the top for gluing. You could use screw on the top too, if you don't have enough clamps, but you'll have more holes to fill carefully before fitting the next board.

There is veritable heat wave here at the moment Rob 17 deg and a pleasure working in the shed last night, in fact I didn't knock off till after midnight.

While contemplating both your pics of the plank lines and my initial attempts at transom beveling it suddenly dawned on me that Navigator is clinker for some reason (possibly the pics I've seen are not close up) I thought the plank edges are butt joined and glassed thereby posing a tricky fairing job. Your lines look very sweet BTW.

Thanks Mike. Don't forget the sunscreen.
The bottom plank is butt joined to the first plank, but the rest are clinkers. The lines of the boat are really lovely to walk around- to look at in the flesh so to speak...John has made some lovely curves and shapes, but they are quite difficult to do justice to them in pictures. As to my bit, I'm pleased with some of the lines, but I do have niggles about the starboard gunwale shape. I just can't get to look at it as well as the port one and I know that the wood in that gunwale didn't bend as fair as the port one. I'll hope to remedy that when the top plank goes on by allowing the plank to sit fair and if that means some small gaps between it and the gunwale then I'll make the effort to plane them and/or fill them with nice thick goo. The same will apply to the sheer. If that side is shown by the cutting of the planks to be a little less fair than the port one, I'll cut to the fair one and adjust the height of the sheer in the same way if necessary. We're only talking millimetres here. And then the rub rail goes over all of that giving me another opportunity to finesse it better....

Originally Posted by rob540

Don't forget the sunscreen.

Sunscreen....I'm a few years off needing that . Just been down to the hardware to get a 500w globe for the work light, now perhaps a visit to the optometrist and I might be able to see what I'm doing.

Welcome to the madhouse Bodmin. Very glad there is something in it for you.

Stop with the clamp buying, you are driving up the prices round this way!

Originally Posted by DaleA

Stop with the clamp buying, you are driving up the prices round this way!

I have a cunning plan....

R

glued but still mucky and rough.

Wow she is coming along beautifully.

I agree. I love the sweep of the bow. Those boards look just great, I commented elsewhere that the tabernacle does not intrude on the lines at all. Great balance.

Good to see progress in light of more recent sad news.

Thanks Chaps. Week-end 'off'...near Port Fairy, more shots on blog and on flickr.

While the boat is still light enough to manhandle on my own, I slid it down off its perch and onto special boat supports (I'll sell you some at $7 per bale later).
These are soft and a good height until I turn her over for a hull facial. They also make very good tucker for livestock.



And here I've used some cheap thin MDF to make a template to find the most economical layout of deck bits on my remaining ply. I have one sheet and some bits of sheets left and would very much like not to buy some more. I'm hoping that this will be the last boat because I can't afford to keep building sheds to put them in.
The template was able to show me that the bow section is amazingly symmetrical. Going straight ahead may be possible while sailing. In general, I tend to go off in odd directions following my curiosity, so this will be a bit of a change.

Ah the trials and tribulations of the backyard (or should that be the back paddock) boat builder.

At least I don't have to worry about the livestock eating my saw horses.