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Skin-on-Frame: Frame cutting: relief cuts on multi-chine boat?
By:Ben Alexander
Date: 5/5/2014, 9:37 pm

The wife and I finally started actually cutting frames for Tom Yost's Sea Tour Double yesterday, but ran into a problem. It doesn't seem right to cut relief arcs between stringers that are maybe 2-3" apart, how far apart should they be before it needs relief cuts?

Right not the frames have a nice 1/2" arc on the spaces between the keel and first chine, and no others. Should we be cutting more, or is it overkill?

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Skin-on-Frame: Frame cutting: relief cuts on multi-chine boat?
Ben Alexander -- 5/5/2014, 9:37 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Frame cutting: relief cuts on m
Bill Hamm -- 5/6/2014, 12:08 am
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Jeff Buyer -- 5/6/2014, 11:20 am
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Marc Upchurch -- 5/6/2014, 1:49 pm
Yes they matter
Jeff Horton -- 5/7/2014, 6:54 am
Re: Yes they matter
Ancient kayaker -- 5/12/2014, 4:38 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Frame cutting: relief cuts on m
Bill Hamm -- 5/7/2014, 9:42 am
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Ben Alexander -- 5/12/2014, 2:43 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 5/13/2014, 12:55 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Frame cutting: relief cuts on m
Ben Alexander -- 5/21/2014, 5:51 pm