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the BBK tortured deck *Pic*
By:Dean Trexel
Date: 9/5/2001, 1:02 pm
In Response To: here it is... *Pic* (Dean Trexel)

BBK manages to build a tortured deck with the help of vac-forming, from what I've heard. The foredecks are flat until just aft of the Beckson hatch, then bend to a cylindrical shape over your lap, then flat at the aft deck. This torturing actually produces a spot between the hatch and the bungees that is lower than the foredeck, due to the buckling of the wood. I doubt that the average homebuilder could do a tortured deck like this nailing the deck to shear clamps -- and still get a straight, untwisted boat. BBK manages it without shear clamps! There's just a generous fillet of thickened epoxy at the shear. That's one of the ways they keep their boats' weight down to 37 pounds, completely outfitted.

Dean

Messages In This Thread

Plywood Walrus deck design help
Ben Staley -- 9/4/2001, 4:14 pm
Re: Plywood Walrus deck design help *Pic*
Bobby Curtis -- 9/6/2001, 3:00 pm
Re: Thanks Bobby
Ben Staley -- 9/6/2001, 4:17 pm
Re: Plywood Walrus deck design help
Mike Hanks -- 9/5/2001, 3:00 pm
Re: Plywood Walrus deck design help
Shawn Baker -- 9/5/2001, 3:39 pm
Re: HMMMM...more choices.
Ben Staley -- 9/5/2001, 5:15 pm
Re: Plywood Walrus deck design help
Ben Staley -- 9/5/2001, 3:38 pm
Re: Plywood Walrus deck design help
Mike Hanks -- 9/6/2001, 10:53 am
brain fart for s-n-g deck
Dean Trexel -- 9/5/2001, 2:56 am
Re: Deck sketch
Ben Staley -- 9/5/2001, 10:25 am
a modification of dean's approach
mike allen ---> -- 9/5/2001, 5:03 pm
PolaroidDigital.com
Dan Ruff -- 9/5/2001, 9:28 am
if you're curious...
Dean Trexel -- 9/5/2001, 3:23 am
here it is... *Pic*
Dean Trexel -- 9/5/2001, 12:52 pm
the BBK tortured deck *Pic*
Dean Trexel -- 9/5/2001, 1:02 pm
Re: Plywood Walrus deck design help
Don Beale -- 9/4/2001, 4:50 pm
Re: Plywood Walrus deck design help
Ben Staley -- 9/4/2001, 5:14 pm
Re: Plywood Walrus deck design help
Ted Henry -- 9/4/2001, 8:01 pm
Re: Plywood Walrus deck design help
Rehd -- 9/4/2001, 7:15 pm
Re: Plywood Walrus deck design help
Ken Sutherland -- 9/5/2001, 2:32 pm
Re: Plywood Walrus deck design help
Don Beale -- 9/4/2001, 5:27 pm