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

It's getting close Robert, soon those arguments with the wife about the colour scheme will cease to be light domestic discourse and become serious

You should find that 'dent' in the gunwale will disappear, funny how you can ease things out of existance with a few strokes of the plane or rubs with the sandpaper.

Richard

m2c1Iw,
Thank you
("dobra robota" = "good job", "good work")

Daddles,
Hoping than hull will be finished (without hardware) in september...

Colors? Probably natural color of wood (birch plywood is nice yellow)... but... I like other colors too... red hull, wooden deck, gunwales and coamings... (???)

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This day's photos:
External stem - almost done


Starboard's gunwale glued on place and planed/shaped. Temporairy fitting of port side's gunwale.


Starboard's gunwale glued on place and planed/shaped. Temporairy fitting of port side's gunwale.


More photos there:
http://picasaweb.google.p...anoeBETHYanfen#

That starboard rear shot shows some nice lines doesn't it

Richard

Looking very nice, Robert. This thread is an excellent build-a-long

I have been away and the boat continues to look good! Well done!!!

MIK

Originally Posted by robhosailor

Hoping than hull will be finished (without hardware) in september...

Oops!
OCTOBER - certainly

Thank you: MIK, Rick and Richard

The 'dent' on starboard's gunwale is practical invisible...
Holes from temporairy screws are really tiny - they can be filleted by epoxy mixed with wooden powder and/or with tiny plugs from bamboo shashlik's sticks...

Unfortunatelly autumn (fall) started. Today was first rainy and cold day after few weeks of beautiful, warm and sunny weather... I can't to mix epoxy than is circa 10 C and wet. There are no heating in my garage. Hoping than will be a few warm days this month else.

Originally Posted by robhosailor

Holes from temporairy screws are really tiny - they can be filleted by epoxy mixed with wooden powder and/or with tiny plugs from bamboo shashlik's sticks...

Unfortunatelly autumn (fall) started. Today was first rainy and cold day after few weeks of beautiful, warm and sunny weather... I can't to mix epoxy than is circa 10 C and wet. There are no heating in my garage. Hoping than will be a few warm days this month else.

Today was less wet and more sunny... and I've decided to glue port sides gunwale...


...and I've used bamboo shashlik's sticks as a plugs for holes from temporairy screws in starboard side's gunwale


and in coamings


Hoping for good weather for tomorrow and after tomorrow!

The bamboo sticks are a good bit of lateral thinking Robert I was wondering though, seeing they'll leave end grain exposed, you'll be relying on the epoxy coating to waterproof them whereas if you'd just injected epoxy, you're using something that doesn't need waterproofing.

Richard

Or fill using the bag method.

But all will be well.

MIK

Yesterday, I've glued skids on place:

Trying to fitt of them - not measured yet on this picture


Glueing...


Glueing of plugs (bamboo shashlik's sticks) in portside's gunwale


Almost finished plugs on starboard's gunwale


Today I've sanded hull and deck a bit...

Yesterday - Preparations for winter bed inside my tiny garage...



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Up to this point I've made all by myself but...


... for put her on place were required another two hands
... and my BETH -YuanFen- just on her winter bed...


She is realy safe on her place, ropes for accidental unintentional unsafe behaviour of garage users only...

I need to sweep the garage and to put on highest supports masts, yards and booms...
Hoping than will be posibility to finish them inside my house first.

Waiting for spring 2010

Originally Posted by robhosailor

Today I've sanded hull and deck a bit...

That's all the sanding I ever do too

Regarding the 'winter bed' - great bit of storage there
It's strange to hear people talking about not working over winter. Sure, sometimes I don't go out in the shed because it's cold and miserable but that's just me being a woose (coward, big girl, sook, etc) We really are blessed with a moderate climate here in Adelaide, even compared to the rest of the country, let alone you European types.

Richard

Originally Posted by Daddles

That's all the sanding I ever do too

Regarding the 'winter bed' - great bit of storage there
It's strange to hear people talking about not working over winter. Sure, sometimes I don't go out in the shed because it's cold and miserable but that's just me being a woose (coward, big girl, sook, etc) We really are blessed with a moderate climate here in Adelaide, even compared to the rest of the country, let alone you European types.

Richard

Richard, Adelaide is about the same latitude south as southern California is north, correct? Probably a similar climate...

Here in Northern California, I don't get extreme cold, but it does get chilly enough that on some winter evenings it's uncomfortable to work in the unheated shop.

Originally Posted by Rick_Tatum

Richard, Adelaide is about the same latitude south as southern California is north, correct? Probably a similar climate...

Here in Northern California, I don't get extreme cold, but it does get chilly enough that on some winter evenings it's uncomfortable to work in the unheated shop.

I'm pretty sure you're right about the latitude Rick, but the difference here is that our weather systems come across half the continent, a very dry half. In winter, we do get systems off the Southern Ocean which bring cold and wind and rain, but again, we're pretty well protected. South Australia has been described as the driest state in the driest continent on earth, and I believe it's a claim that's reasonably valid and in winter, sometimes I have to go a whole day wearing a jumper

Getting back to the boats, I hope to be storing the Little Black Dog up in the air, preferably hanging over where I park the Falcon so I can just lower her onto the roof racks. This'd be possible if I owned the place but I'm renting so may have to do something different. It'll all depend on how easy it is to lug around

Richard