For anyone who's built their own boat....

You know what they say about there always being two sides to every story? Well it's true!

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Had a lil' help from my brother, wife and buddy Tim. We got her done in 5 mins what took me 2 hrs the day before doing the other side. Many hands make light work!

I didn't know if we were going to make it today though, a storm ripped through here this morning and I thought a freight train was coming right through the shed!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UEOK0xkqKk

Hold on!
 
The first part of Stitch & Glue is the stitching! In this case it's not thread we're using it's heavy duty plastic wire ties.

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Once I got around the entire hull stitching the panels together and getting them all lined up correctly I'll begin the second part of the procedure, the gluing. It'll be while before I get to that part though. Some of these panels have to be bent quite radically to get them into their final shape especially around the bow section.

Someone on the builders forum suggested using round spacers on the inside of the stitches to help align the panels. It works!

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That's it for now. Back to work tomorrow! Boy, five weeks just flew by! :-(
 
Inside the belly of the beast!

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Didn't get much done tonight. Goin' back to work after 5 weeks holidays is tough! I need a nap! :-)
 
Safety Notice: Five Gallon Plastic Pails are no substitute for a step ladder.

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I don't think anything's broken. Just swollen and sore as hell. Whacked my head and bit my tongue too! Doh!
 
"It's not the boat "you built" until you've sworn at it, bled on it, sweated over it and cried beside it!" - I just made that up

You are almost there
 
Damn it Rick, put a bandaid on it and get back to work. How else are we going to get this boat built. jk,LOL
As you can see I have no patience to do something like this.
Hope you heal quickly and nothing is broke.
Great thread, waiting for more pictures and this time I hope its of the BOAT.
 
I tried to get some stuff done last night. Not good. Still need a day or two to heal up. Can't let Pascal get too far ahead of me! :-)
 
Dump ducks and some light duties in the boat shed tonight.

Stopped at Subway for meatball sub tonight. Decided to sit down by the water and enjoy it and who shows up? A Dump Duck! Lori will tell you I have no likening of these foul birds.

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So along with the cat paw prints on the hood of the Jeep I now have webbed dump duck prints too! *sigh*

One of the fella's on the boat building bulletin boards suggested I use two barrels and a plank to help prevent the lil' accident I had last week. For some reason I don't see how using two buckets is gonna help! ;-)

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You know what I always say? "Safety First!" Ayup, that's what I always say! ;-) I'm thinkin' this will help me keep to that! It's nice and light and just the right size for working under the hull. I'm sure Lori will approve!

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One of the butt joints on the side panels broke when I bent it around the forward forms so tonight I ground the fiberglass off of it and reglassed and glued it.

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Once this is set up I'll get back to stitching panels together. I hope to get the transom and the bow bent into shape and stitched this weekend if my wrist cooperates.

That's it for now. Tomorrow is the last car club meet of the year so there won't be any boat building stuff posted till Saturday. Standby.
 
Hope the hands feeling better. Why is it always after the fact, that you go and get the right tool for the job. Its like I will use a screwdriver for a chisel because the chisel is all the way across the shop.
The little voice in my head will be telling me whats wrong with this picture.
The thing I hate doing the most is telling mysely I told you so.
 
Or how about when you try to tighten or loosen a bolt with a pair of pliers or needle nose pliers because the ratchet is on the other side of the shop? Of course the pliers come off the head of the bolt and somehow always manages to pinch the crap out of your hand! Ouch that hurts like hell!
 
It's gonna take a lil' more than a tumble to keep me out of the boat shed. Hand seems to be healing fine now. Today was spent going in circles trying to get the bottom panels to bend around the form.

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There's a lot of force in those panels when they're bent like that. I had to go get myself a couple more ratchet straps (bigguns!) to keep the panels on the forms. I've run into a bit of a problem with one panel wanting to pop off overtop of the other. You can kind of pick it up from the picture above.

Maybe see it a little better here.

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Every time I pry it back into alignment it slips back when I try to tighten the stitches. I've got some tips from a few guys who've built this boat already and will try those tomorrow.

That was about 5 hrs of screwing around. Not much to show for it I'm afraid. I did get a couple more pics from UP ON HIGH!

Looking fwd.

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Looking aft.

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That's it. Try again tomorrow.
 
Looking good Rick. I have a question of why the grooves in the panel on one side and not the other? Cant remember if you explained it before and I'm to lazy to go back and look.
Was it a test to see if it would bend easier with grooves?
 
Is that a wired stick of dynamite on the last pic... just in case?

--Rick
 
He's laying in a bunch of those 'lifting sticks' for the turn. Put em' all under the one side, put a fancy rope lynching system to tie the other side to the side to the other neighbors fence and touch em' off.
The the lighted side jumps up in the air, the stress on the ropes causes the boat to flip and comes down on the keel back in Rick's driveway.
Cool eh?
Be sure all the Cameras are in place now!
 
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Originally posted by dvan

Looking good Rick. I have a question of why the grooves in the panel on one side and not the other? Cant remember if you explained it before and I'm to lazy to go back and look.
Was it a test to see if it would bend easier with grooves?

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The grooves are called kerfs made by the CnC machine to make bending the panels easier. They should have been cut on the inside on both bottom panels. This was the very first kit cut and they made a lot of parts identical instead of mirror images of one another. Not a big deal, they'll get filled and faired. I can't imagine trying to bend them into the bow shape without the kerfts. Sheez!

Thanks for askin' though.
 
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Originally posted by Rick D

Is that a wired stick of dynamite on the last pic... just in case?

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Just a piece 'o crap I had laying about to add some weight to my hoisting cable so the cable would quit jumping out of the sheave.

Sometimes I wish I had some dynomite! :-)
 
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Originally posted by Thudpucker

He's laying in a bunch of those 'lifting sticks' for the turn. Put em' all under the one side, put a fancy rope lynching system to tie the other side to the side to the other neighbors fence and touch em' off.
The the lighted side jumps up in the air, the stress on the ropes causes the boat to flip and comes down on the keel back in Rick's driveway.
Cool eh?

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Thud's got a plan for everything! :-) Not subtle but it might work.
 
Strapped
Screwed
Blocked
Beaten
Pried
Bent
Tugged and.......

Whipped into submission! [:-bigeyes]

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My pry bar is still in there somewhere with a chisel too! ;-)
 
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