based on the book by Christopher Cunningham
home
home
home
go to my Vimeo channel




planing gunwale scarf joints9" scarfs on 4 pcs all at oncerib mortice jigmakes a nice morticegunwales glued and shapedscarf barely visiblemortice jig in actiondeck beam mortice jignext time I will use dowellsgunwale bevel jigfirst look at shapeend framessetting shape5 deck beams inall deck beams in except masiklooks long already but 16" to gocat inspectiondeck beam tenon and pegends peggedready for ribsfrom belowpeeling 6" ash loggreen ash bends without steamingmajor table saw accidentcut into rib stockcut to widthrib length gaugemakes a nice patternthinning ribs in bent sectionssteam boxbending jigribs installed - only 3 splits - no breaksribs went in perfectly - only minor adjustments neededno description neccessaryno description neccessary 2no description neccessary 3no description neccessary 4no description neccessary 5no description neccessary 6fits like a glove, or shoewon't be any problem recliningstarting on endshow to steam bend in placethrow back to my racing days (hole drilling)Y - lashingmore lashinglots of rockerhope the fixed skeg offsets the rockernow its seriously tallbevelling the chinesone pc lashing with notched keel and chineskeel and one chine doneinstalling stem platesstem plate donewhat a messpegging masik into placeaft deck ridges in placewrapped in plastic filmworks perfectlystability at rest... great (maybe too much)oiled and ready to skin (26lbs)fabric from George Dysonsteam-bending oak combing combing without lipcombing steamernew combing formfloorboards with heel pocketsfinished combingtoo bad it has to be coveredfloorboards in placeready to skinanchored to wallstapled stemsstapled to gunwales and trimeddeck stretched and stapledback half sewn and staples removednails in combinginterior shot of nails in combingsewing donecombing installedforward viewrear viewcombing stitched and shrunkpainting jigtrial run 1trial run 2trial run 3trial run 4trial run 5deck lines installedsay cheeserear deck lines