Great project. One thing I have learned about Charles Limbert furniture is that he didnt use butt joints on his panels, tops etc. He used a very small 1/16" tongue and groove joint. It was only about 1/16" deep and about 1/8" wide. I think he did it to help keep the boards together.
In case you don't already know, and would benefit from an affordable DIY CNC that has essentially no limits on length, basically can do 4+ feet wide by however many feet long the table is, check out the free plans for the V1 Engineering LowRider v3 mostly printed DIY CNC. To see mine in action, check out this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6x24C5ZwuCU.html
If you ever want to do a collaboration video, let me know! I'm working on the electronics for an Arduino based CNC and I'm teaching my son electronics using the 30 Days Lost in Space kit. I just ordered an Ender 3 Max Neo...
I built a Gatton CNC, which I did not film, because I was floundering my way through it. I then drastically improved it with stiffeners and I'm planning on implementing linear rails instead of v-bearings and aluminum angle. I'm in the middle of 3D printing custom dust extraction parts because the entire enclosure is in my son's bedroom, which he only uses one night a week.
I really appreciate your suggestion to make small fillets for the transoms and then remove the copper stitches. The official manual asks us to fillet over the stitches, which to me sounds a bit lazy. Also starting with small fillets seems like a great opportunity to make a small batch of the thicker filleting mix and test it there.
Sorry, I don't remember. CLCBoats.com has a bill of materials for what you need to build each of their boats. You can buy just a sheet or two at a time and cut out the parts that fit those. It's a way of self-financing a build that tends to be pretty long anyway.
I lived on a 21' sailboat for a while. If you find a place where you can setup a few sawhorses, you can do this anywhere. It's like when they build Wharram Tikis on a beach on an island in the middle of the Pacific.
Very nice build presentation MM. I was very taken by the graphite epoxy as I am just making my centreboard case and have been thinking of how to finish the interior of it. Thanks for the tip.
I'm curious about the legal size of home-built boats. How did you get a HIN and Registration? Did you have to pass some state inspection for the HIN? Then I assume you register it after you get a HIN?
Thank you for your video. I can comment on your laminated skids on the bottom of the hull. I just finished repairing a boat where the skids were thicker than the bottom plywood. They tore out some hull veneer at the forward ends, likely from weight on the inside of the boat flexing the bottom, and the plywood hull being more flexible than the skids. I tapered the thickness of the replacement skids for eight or ten inches so they went from full thickness to thinner than the hull plywood. I also made them longer than the originals, so they ended further forward on solid plywood, rather than the patched area from the previous skids. I'm confident that they will not damage the hull plywood as the bottom flexes.
me and my freinds want to start sailing, but we are still looking for jobs and dont have parents all that willing to spend 1k-3k so get us a sailboat, but luckily my dad loves building things with me, especially when a freind is involved, any tips on how I should go about this?
Nice build. I also like your "land skiff" in the background of a few shots. I've been a Jeep fan since I was kid in the 60s and a sailboat fan since the 70s.
Hey! I'm just about to start this same build actually. I'm wondering why you epoxied the planks before you stitch them. Wouldn't that make the planks more rigid and also crack the surface of cured epoxy you just finished? Just seems like those planks need to be flexible first in the stitching/shaping phase and then epoxied into rigidity afterwards no? Love the video though, I've watched it many many times the last couple years dreaming of when I would finally get to start this project. The time has come! I'm on the forums as "JonnyRubiks" btw.
9:05]. You know you can also make a little beach dolly that goes right up through your centerboard trunk like we used to have for our Sunfishes and Phantoms back in the day.
Thanks for great overview. Your video covered the areas in question that I had while building my Tenderly . This is my first ever boat build and finding videos with details pertinent are infrequent. Thanks
