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Re: building order?
By:Ross Leidy
Date: 4/19/2001, 10:41 am
In Response To: building order? (sage)

The order is partially dictated by the type of strongback you use. If you use an external strongback, it makes sense to glass the hull exterior before removing the form supports and rotating the boat. If you use an internal strongback, you are able to rotate the boat without disturbing the shape, so you can strip the deck prior to doing any glassing. There is room for flexibility in the order.

Ross

: I thought that the building order was: 1. Strip the hull.
: 2. Strip the deck.
: 3. Recessed cockpit.
: 4. Plane, sand and fill hull and deck.
: 5. Cockpit uprights.
: 6. Glass hull.
: 7. Glass deck.
: 8. Hatches,cockpit rim, recessed deck lines, bulkheads and footbraces.
: 9. Attach deck.
: 10. End pour.
: 11. Varnish.
: 12. paddle.

: the reason I ask is I have just read of people glassing the hull before ever
: laying the first deck strip. Am I doing somthing wrong? Half of my deck is
: done.
: Should I stop and work on hull?

: Sage

Messages In This Thread

building order?
sage -- 4/19/2001, 10:22 am
Re: building order?
John Monfoe -- 4/20/2001, 6:34 am
John, "hull" you keep saying "haul" *NM*
Stan Snapp -- 4/20/2001, 12:39 pm
Got it. Hall.
John Monfoe -- 4/21/2001, 6:26 am
Re: Got it. Hall.
Julie Kanarr -- 4/21/2001, 1:51 pm
Re: Got it. Hall.
Don Beale -- 4/22/2001, 12:32 pm
Baby Cab
John Monfoe -- 4/23/2001, 5:20 am
Re: Got it. Hall.
Paul G. Jacobson -- 4/22/2001, 1:33 am
Re: No, I don't get it!! O.T.
Rehd -- 4/22/2001, 1:50 am
Re: Got it. Hall.
daren neufeld -- 4/22/2001, 1:38 am
Re: Got it. Hall.
Stan Snapp -- 4/21/2001, 6:31 pm
Re: Not to worry
Grant Goltz -- 4/20/2001, 3:43 pm
Re: An "Onery Haul" :) *NM*
Spidey -- 4/22/2001, 9:25 pm
Re: Not to worry
Don Beale -- 4/20/2001, 7:30 pm
Re: Not to worry
Angela Watson -- 4/20/2001, 8:43 pm
Can you say Guillemot ?
Robert Palmeter -- 4/21/2001, 7:17 am
Re: Can you say Guillemot ?
Angela Watson -- 4/21/2001, 9:10 pm
Re: Can you say Guillemot ?
daren neufeld -- 4/22/2001, 1:25 am
Re: building order?
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 4/19/2001, 4:29 pm
Re: building order?
Ross Leidy -- 4/19/2001, 10:41 am
Re: building order?
sage -- 4/19/2001, 11:23 am
Re: building order?
Ross Leidy -- 4/19/2001, 11:43 am
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Arthur -- 4/19/2001, 4:11 pm
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Ben Staley -- 4/19/2001, 10:36 am
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sage -- 4/19/2001, 11:35 am
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Shawn Baker -- 4/19/2001, 1:50 pm
Re: building order?
Ben Staley -- 4/19/2001, 2:01 pm
Re: building order?
Rehd -- 4/19/2001, 8:39 pm