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Re: stringer placement?
By:Bill Price
Date: 6/14/2001, 12:11 pm
In Response To: Re: stringer placement? (Ben Staley)

: That is very cool!!

: I think I might need one.

Oh, you do! You've got those forms just hanging around now :-)

: What was your method for deciding where the stringers would be placed. I can
: picture the keel stringers, the sheer, the chine being fixed points but
: the ones in between, did you have a specific measurement on each form or
: just let them land where they naturally wanted to go?

The number of stringers was somewhat arbitrary. On the keel I decided I wanted 4 per side + gunwales & keelson. I tried to space those evenly on each form. For the deck I did a similar thing, but did position the first stringers up from the deck gunwales such that the cockpit recess would contact it.

Bill

Messages In This Thread

Skinning an X *Pic*
Bill Price -- 6/14/2001, 2:34 am
Re: Skinning an X
Elliott -- 6/14/2001, 9:05 am
Epoxying the joints rather than lashing
Mitch Isoe -- 6/17/2001, 2:54 pm
Re: Epoxying the joints rather than lashing
Bill Price -- 6/17/2001, 9:49 pm
Re: Skinning an X
peter czerpak -- 6/14/2001, 8:19 am
Re: Skinning an X *Pic*
Bill Price -- 6/14/2001, 10:56 am
Re: stringer placement?
Ben Staley -- 6/14/2001, 12:01 pm
Re: stringer placement?
Bill Price -- 6/14/2001, 12:11 pm
Re: stringer placement?
Ben Staley -- 6/14/2001, 12:37 pm
Re: stringer placement?
Bill Price -- 6/14/2001, 6:42 pm
concave areas on SOF versions of strip designs
Paul G. Jacobson -- 6/18/2001, 3:33 am
"X" coaming question
David Dick -- 6/14/2001, 6:56 am
Re: "X" coaming question
Bill Price -- 6/14/2001, 10:39 am
Re: Skinning an X
mark -- 6/14/2001, 4:41 am
Re: Skinning an X
Bill Price -- 6/14/2001, 10:37 am
Re: Skinning an X
Roger Nuffer -- 6/14/2001, 1:31 pm