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Re: Skin-on-Frame: Alignment Problems
By:Don T
Date: 12/11/2011, 5:54 pm
In Response To: Skin-on-Frame: Alignment Problems (Andy White)

Pic please. I am not sure what you mean by a "kink" in the gunwales.

Don T.
: HI There,

: I'm building Tom Yost's Sea Flea with and for my son. At the
: weekend we setup the frames on a strongback and wrapped the
: stringers around. I had a couple of goes to get everything
: looking fair, but when I took the temporarily screwed and lashed
: frame of the stongback I had some major springback of the keel.
: Basically the resulting frame has no rocker which leaves the
: gunwales with a bit of a kink. The chine stringers seemed to
: have the hardest bend in them, and I think they are
: 'overpowering' the lesser bend in the keel and gunwales.

: Does it sound like I've done something obviously wrong? Does
: anybody have any tips on how I can rescue the build?

: Regards,
: Andy.

Messages In This Thread

Skin-on-Frame: Alignment Problems
Andy White -- 12/11/2011, 5:49 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Alignment Problems
Don T -- 12/11/2011, 5:54 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Alignment Problems
Bob Johns -- 12/11/2011, 6:31 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Alignment Problems
Dave Gentry -- 12/11/2011, 6:47 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Alignment Problems
Bill Hamm -- 12/12/2011, 2:34 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Alignment Problems
Rob -- 12/19/2011, 6:25 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Alignment Problems
Rob -- 12/19/2011, 7:23 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Alignment Problems
Andy White -- 12/19/2011, 9:05 pm