Building Stock
Building stock
A frame supports
A narrow fit in the garage
My first attempt at a scarf joint
Much work to be done here
Glued and cured, lining up a batten on the plot points from the plan set
The bow taking shape
Cutting out the centerboard slot
Bottom ready to be temporarily nailed down
Frames A, D and the motor board backing
Side panels are here from the leeward side of the island
Scarfing 8 into 4
Aligning the layers to make a close fit
Panels glued, now using a batten to scribe the shear line
Using a belt sander to true the planks
Now I'm getting an idea of the size and shape
patching my first scarf before glueing on the keelson
glassing the inside of the centerboard trunk
clamping pressure...
keelson glued and screwed (from underneath)
all manner of weighty items recruited for clamping
Main frames glued on
Opening for air compartment under seat
Centerboard and main beam
Stem is balanced in place
everything is still level
Cose-up of the beam supports (amidships)
sheer plank
Planks match up at the bow
the transon
View from the opening for the inspection hatch for the boyancy compartment
some gaps showing between the planks
leveling and shaving the planks to make a tighter fit
Wiring the planks together after they've been sanded down to match, port
starboard
The transom glued up
Side frames in place, compound angles are tricky
Transom fitted, waiting for glue and fillets
Aft seat bearer is level and matches the aft seat beam on the motorboard well
The stem is epoxied and fiberglassed and sanded once, waiting for another layer of epoxy
Ugly right now but the extra planking and glue will be cut off flush with the stem
View of the bow
Frames screwed into position
Will be needing a name soon...
Glue-up for the motor board beam
same
Glued and screwed on the transom
First coat of epoxy and glass inside
rough getting into the little space, covered in epoxy but I can't complain too much with the results
Second coat of epoxy, added some quarter knees to the transom for strength/surface area
port side knee
polyurethane glue is messy
it is easy to sand
a mess
laying out the gunwales...
This is the aft seat bearer frame being fitted. It was glued in a mold using three peices of 10mm X 25mm douglas fir.
First set of inwale spacers on the starboard side
Seat beam screwed in place
Some fillets on the main seams that will enable the "stitches" to be removed.
more taping
All starboard spacers in place
Close up of the seat beam joint with some wet epoxy
Port side spacers being glued on
and again
Port side fillets and tape to remove last of the stitches
All spacers glued
Trying out the play in the gunwale
Drilling the gunwales
Both gunwales screwed on
Ready for glue
Cutting fiberglass cloth for the last of the inside seams
Inside seams are all taped!
I think it would actually float for a while in its current condition
Sanding is becoming very tiresome
Glue applied to the port gunwale; even with clamps and screws it gapped in a few spots
A close up
The starboard side already dry
Katy inspecting progress
passed QC so far...
Boat is flipped (two people was pretty easy) and the knot holes are being filled
Trying to decide how best to finish the stem. False stem or rounded fiberglass?
One of the scarfs didn't have enough glue so I ground it back to the good bond and had to fill with a glass and thickened epoxy patch
so far so good
sanded
smoooooth
A compromise on the stem. Exposed hardwood at the top for bow eye/through bolts and rounded glass over the wood stem below.
Some finishing work to be done here
and here
The spoke shave in action...mutch better for reducing oak than the tired belt sander.
The seams get filled and glassed first, then the sides covered in 6oz cloth overlapping the taped seams and rub rail. then the bottom gets covered in 18oz knytex cloth and a cab-o-sil thickened layer of epoxy.
Seams have been filled with wood fiber thickened epoxy and then taped stem to stern one complete seam at a time
starboard side
fairing the false stem, both seams have been taped at this point
Screw holes in the stem and gunwales were filled with 3/8" rounds that were glued in with thickened epoxy and sanded flush
the white layer on the port side was an experiment with a silica balloon filled sandable fairing coat...proved to be unncessary at this step and was sanded off later
My patch is smoothing out slowly
glue
more glue
The hard chine edges were rounded off a little, much smoother look this way
Two of the old scarf joints in the 6mm ply
The sanding! Horrible
Here is the knytex getting fitted to the bottom
This is a dual layer glass sandwich of 8oz random strand mat stitched to directional 10oz cloth on top (facing outside). This adds considerable strength and impact resistance (anti-reef layer)
My piece was a little short but on purpose to save $$
Before
After
Added a keel bedded in the wet knytex and screwed through to the keelson
Need some more finishing here
The keel will be laminated up in the stern to form a short skeg, plans don't call for it but I've added a bit of additional stuff keeping in mind our intended use of the boat as a dive platform and all the reefs
Katy helped out big time on the bottom glassing, mixing resin as I smoothed it into the wetted out glass
drips...
more sanding
last piece of glass, up to the gunwales
filling screw holes with bungs
fairing coats getting progresively smoother
Time to shave the keel here and round it into the stem
Laminating the skeg
filling bungs
overlapping glass on the transom
leveling pieces for the centerboard
glass on the skeg
sanding
hardwood tip
fairing the bow
first coat of MIL-24441 Epoxy polyamide
High Build 2-part Polyurethane, two coats
tough to get the inside of the centerboard case, only the first 4 inches or so coated
not sure hot how i want to finish this paint line...
Pb
Epoxy, 2 coats
Almost there...
Amazing how much wood you can pile up on the floor from a couple a 2x4s
Basic oars...not bad for a first attempt
Tabernacle secured
squish
fitting parts together
tab A inserted into ?
roughed in
Trailer trials
Rudder still drying...no sail anyway
Ready for the water
Whooohoo!
she floats!
Welcome aboard
To the Mokes!
now some sails...
