I have always been in love with the water, swimming, canoeing, boating and especially sailing. My passion has become boat building and I am particularly enamoured with classic designs. Subscribe for video content of boat building whether it be kayaks, canoes or larger boats.
yes, after I make the outer stem by using this inner stem as a mold, I will have to plane off a bevel in the forward part of the inner stem in order to accept the planking. That bevel is from the bearding line forward. On the Haven, the stem was one complete piece, not an inner and outer and so, the bearding line was where the rabbet started and I actually chiseled that out. This should be easier and because of the glued lapstrake planking that I'll do, we can just attach the outer stem after planking is complete.
My wife always wonders if my speaker is charged up so that I can listen to music in the shop while I'm working. I almost never listen to anything in the shop. I find it really relaxing and therapeutic to think and work without a lot of other distraction. My office job is phone call after phone call and noise and interruption and stress. I am trying to make a move to do boat work full time. To answer your question, the bearding line is like the rabbet on a solid stem piece. I will go from the bearding line forward and bevel the forward edge of the inner stem to accept the planking. I won't do this until after we mold up the outer stem.
having good grain orientation is helpful but even so, sometimes they just snap. That particular part of this project was more difficult than other steam bending that I've done.
I had the thought to leave all clamped to the jig overnight, in the dry fit, but the more I think about it, it would have been much more difficult to paint the epoxy on curved pieces as opposed to the flat. I like steam bending a lot. it is quite fun
Boy, I know that feeling of having thought of everything and having ever detail prepared, and then forgetting one key detail like unclamping the wood after you've started mixing epoxy and feeling panic the whole way through. Good recovery -- the freakout was very, very mild.
hi Dale, yeah, I may have looked calm on the outside but yikes. I could feel the first batch heating up in the cup before I got is spread out. worked out. getting it spread out slowed the reaction, for sure. your latest progress looks great!
yes it was. I was so fearful that the first batch of epoxy would start to set and make it difficult or impossible to bend on the jig. Because of my forgetting to pull the dry fit off before mixing the first batch, it started to heat up in the cup. spreading the epoxy did slow the exo-reaction and the slow hardener was the right call
Why not just use the same size strips that you did on the deck and hull? If you use 3/8" thick by 3/4 inch strips you can bend the strips in multiple directions like building a canoe or kayak? You would have to add strips one at a time so it might take longer but might be easier to do. Or am I missing something?
@@JohnFedora-k2d that would probably work. I had the paulownia, for some time, and had never used it before so I wanted to try to use it. It is so light weight!
That is a good question. I'm not sure on a large ship, especially with multiple sails. Generally a mast may be raked or even bent to increase sail shape or in order to throw the Center of Effort aft. putting the COE aft would help with balance or getting more weather helm. Strangely enough, could just be the designer thinks it looks cool. lol
Oh my, I didn't get those pages when I bought my plans!!!!! I am in the final stretch, so at this point I don't need them. I guess I can say that mine will be, um, quite unique? :o
that is a very good question. I don't expect to keep both but until I get the new boat finished, I won't be able to make that decision. It would be hard to part with Enchanted, for a number of reasons.
@@notoriousv.i.g.6980 thanks for watching. I generally get about 15 strips out of a 1 x 6 (really 5.5). Honestly I don’t remember how many boards because I had some strips laying around. Just doing the math, I’d say that 4, 12 foot boards would do it. What’s nutty as I think about it is that I did a 16 foot canoe with 6 boards. Of course those were 16 foot boards though too
I'd rather sail too. The paddleboards are nice to go on rivers and small lakes. A lot like a canoe, but less hassle for a quick trip. I even took a nap on one in the shade one summer.
Since you mentioned it.... I almost did a video about all of the really terrible parts of this trip but held off. The boat was not in brilliant condition. We had an engineer on board and he was the hardest working member of the crew. When we first arrived to check in and get a Captain's meeting, we were informed that several cabins down below had bed bugs. they had been sprayed for but they couldn't guarantee that they might not be a problem going forward. We were advised that we could abandon the cruise and get a refund if we so chose. That however would have meant that we were stuck in Nassau for a week with no hotel reservations, etc. We went on the cruise. Along about day 3, the plumbing broke severely and the toilets failed. I feel sure that some of it emptied into the bilge. So, to your comment, yes, it smelled, and smelled bad. While the heads were out of order, We had to use a 5 gallon bucket for half a day until they got it fixed. The dinghy that they used to go ashore was an inflatable and one side had a serious leak and although they tried to patch it, they couldn't fix it. They managed to use it by tying bumpers to that side in order to keep it afloat, but even so, it had a bad list. On the last day, it was so bad that we couldn't go ashore for a planned activity. There was quite a bit more that was less than expected. I loved the places we got to go and I loved how the boat sailed. For all of that I liked the trip. Sadly, I won't ever plan a trip with this company, ever again. My wife would be quite a bit more harsh in her review than I have been here. I have told people that we got to sail on a traditional sailing schooner and pretty much got a 19th century experience.
@@JenkinsBoatWorks Thanks for the reply. Enjoyed trips on Liberty Clipper in 2017/18/19 but thanks to your comments I won't be back any time soon. On our last trip in 2019, we made it all the way to Staniel Cay in the Exumas. An important destination as the shipboard ice maker had failed (repair part not available ). i hope never to see an island with pigs ever again. Fat chance, as some bright sparkin the nassau government has decided that these animals bring tourist dollars. So there are designated pig islands in each chain of islands now. Very sorry for No-Name in the Abacos, a former picnic island, now fouled all over with pig feces.
1987ish hull, we love those colors. She looks ready, except the booms should go on the port side of the mast, that way the halyard has a clear run down to the block on the starboard side and it is easier to raise the sail. Have fun sailing!
Yes, and I took her out for the first time last Friday and still had the sail on the starboard side. It was pretty windy and so I left the dock with the sail down. got out in the lake a bit and tried to raise the sail and had a devil of a time as the halyard was binding up. I managed it ok by lifting the gooseneck by hand and helping it but definately need to twist the gooseneck so that it faces the other way. Great sailing no less. I hadn't sailed a sunfish since I was a teenager. I'm thinking I need to revisit a Laser now, too. lol
As a former truck driver, most trailer light problems were due to bad grounds, mostly from corrosion. They would send us to a shop for repair, but that could take hours of waiting to get into the shop. A small tool kit and some extra screws and bolts and I could fix them myself in a LOT less time. They company wouldn't pay me a penny for all the repairs I made, but it saved me a lot of time that I could be driving or sleeping.
I found a trailer! Bought it last sunday and the first thing I did was order new LED brakelights, as well as a dozen other things. Thanks for the wiring video.
Nice! I did my dedicated ground as one wire, t-tapped the marker lights and taillights. This then went to a grounding lug on the tongue, connected to the plug wire. I also made a pig-tail so I could test the trailer lights with out the tow vehicle (plug into a battery). I do disconnect the truck from trailer when submerging the trailer, even though it is fresh water. Saves the regular type bulbs a bit longer.
I made a pig tail to plug into the trailer light plug and power off a battery to test lights with out the tow vehicle. I need to rebuild a trailer too.
That’s a great idea. I fought for several hours today jacking around with the lights. Couldn’t get a good ground using the metal of the trailer and finally ran a ground wire all the way back to the lights
@@JenkinsBoatWorks Yup, I ran a dedicated ground too. My trailer too rusty. Put a grounding lug on tongue and ran plug ground to the lug. Now I just need to keep bulbs alive.
Good to see. This has been on my mind a lot recently as I'm shopping around for a trailer. I'll have to figure out how to set up custom bunks for my little boat to fit on it. I'll hopefully avoid having to have a trailer made new.
