: Hi guys!

: It's been a while since my last message. I had some serious problems with the
: epoxi resin coating and my first Guillemot finished her days feeding a New
: year's eve fire.

: Anyway.

: I'll build a new one. This time, I need to cut it in three parts (stern, stem
: and copckit).

: Do you have sketches, ideas, pics or related URL's referred to wooden
: connection flanges for joining these three parts on site?

: Thanks in advance

: Marcelo

Hey Morcelo

Was that the infamous banana boat? Sorry to hear of anyone having to put their creation to sleep, as it were. I've had to hack an entire kitchen apart once, but, saved a couple of the smaller cabinets for my garage.

I like David's idea, with the exception: You don't have to cut anything. When you build the forms, just, as he mentioned, double up a couple of the forms, in locations where you want the boat to be split. Bolt them together, but, use some sort of thin plywood or cardboard in between to keep a small gap. Then when you are stripping the hull and deck, just stop your strips at the doubled formers. You would still be able to fair the hull and deck out in the same fassion ( keeping the gap around 1/16" ) and then when it is faired seperate the sections to glass. Or use a wider spacer when it's time to glass, that way you can wrap around the edges and still fair the glass after cure. You should get a nice smooth even joint, and you can take it apart and glass the forms in-between, to seal. The only difference here would be the use of ALL SHORT STRIPS!! If space is limited you could probably build one section at a time, but, would be difficult to fair unless they are together.

Rehd