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Re: converting to a strip built
By:Dean Trexel
Date: 8/26/1999, 8:55 pm
In Response To: converting to a strip built (Mike Hanks)

You could make forms to go in betwixt by laying a small frame on the next closest larger frame (i.e. a bow frame on top of the next rearward frame, or a stern frame on the next foreward frame) and drawing a curve that splits the difference between the two. If there isn't any datum water line to line the frames up with, a bit of guessing would be involved. Lining up the shear points should work, though. Dean

> I have the forms left over from my Putz Walrus and I am thinking about
> using them to build a stripper. The main problem I see are that the forms
> are about two feet apart. Is this to far for 1/4" strips? I used
> 3/8" stringers in the skin version and they did not sag until the
> skin was pulled very tight. It should make a nice quick narrow hard chined
> boat.

> Mike

Messages In This Thread

converting to a strip built
Mike Hanks -- 8/26/1999, 9:44 am
Re: converting to a strip built
Paul G. Jacobson -- 8/28/1999, 10:01 pm
Re: converting to a strip built
Mike Hanks -- 8/29/1999, 1:34 am
Re: converting to a strip built
Dean Trexel -- 8/26/1999, 8:55 pm
Form Spacing
Mike Scarborough -- 8/26/1999, 10:44 am