Boat Building Forum

Find advice on all aspects of building your own kayak, canoe or any lightweight boats

Re: Out side seam work
By:John Monfoe
Date: 1/22/2001, 6:45 am
In Response To: Out side seam work (Russ)

: John,
: I did a similar thing on first GE using wooden tabs to hold her together at
: the seams while I faired. In the end, It was a wasted step. When I moved
: the tabs I still had a little work to do. In the end it was just better to
: seam the inside, run a ROS down the out side and then seam the out side.
: The inside seam glassing gives you a solid coninuous surface to work
: against verses the iteritives point strength of a doweled job with
: changing curves in between. Additionally, It has you fairing once rather
: then twice. The savings in time is a lot and the appearnace is the same.
: Ben der don dat Won't dood it agin :)
: !RUSS

: Hope it helps
: !RUSS

Hi Russ,

I printed this out to think about it later as I do much of you postings Russ. I did have a fixture figured out for drilling almost perfectly vertically dowell holes. Simply,, a wire would hang through the eye of an eye screw and when centered, the drill hole would be plumbed and not cause a lock.

John

Messages In This Thread

Dow Pinning the Haul to the Deck
John Monfoe -- 1/20/2001, 6:50 am
Out side seam work
Russ -- 1/21/2001, 9:31 pm
Re: Out side seam work
John Monfoe -- 1/22/2001, 6:45 am
Re: Dow Pinning the Haul to the Deck
Rehd -- 1/20/2001, 1:09 pm
Re: Dow Pinning the Haul to the Deck
John Monfoe -- 1/21/2001, 2:51 am
Re: Dow Pinning the Haul to the Deck
Max -- 1/21/2001, 9:24 am
Re: Dow Pinning the Haul to the Deck
Roy Morford -- 1/20/2001, 12:47 pm