The boat building class is made up of about 20 students.
The class started January 15th, 2008 and will complete on March 31th, 2008
meeting twice a week for three hours.
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| The shellback midship frame is laminated together and sawn to shape, the Eddycat centerboard trunk is made. |
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| The Eddycat deckframes are lofted and cut, work continues on the centerboard trunk. |
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| The Eddycat deckframes are fit to the boat, the Shellback's transom gets a final shaping. |
| Progress in February 2008 |
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| The Shellback's bowstem and midship frame are installed, the Eddycat's centerboard trunk and seat risers are installed. |
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| The Eddycat's deck beams get a final fitting, plywood for the Shellback's planks gets scrafed. |
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| The Shellback's transom is ready for mounting on the
strongback, where has this guy been anyway? . |
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| The Shellback's bottom plank gets laid out, the Eddycat gets a coating with epoxy, the photographer at work. |
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| The Shellback's bottom plank gets installed, this is just like at work! |
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| The Chief Technical Advisor looks on, holes get filled, and a student completes an assigned project. |
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Eddycat gets cleanedup in prep for painting, the centerboard gets trimmed to fit into the trunk.
The Shellback garboards get a test fit. |
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| The Eddycat gets flipped so the outside can be cleanedup. |
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| The Shellback's bottom plank gets beveled to accept the garboard plank and the garboard plank gets installed. |
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The Eddycat's centerboard work continues, the inside gets painted a final coat and the outside gets another coat of
epoxy to fill the weave. |
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| The Shellback's second plank gets fit to the boat. |
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| As we watch the paint dry we decide what to do next. |
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| The EddyCat's deck beams and gussets get installed |
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| The Eddycat's side deck header and carlings get fit and installed. |
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| A student carefully removes screws with a highly sharpened block plane. |
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| As a student finally reads the instructions the last planks of the Shellback are in place. |
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| The deck framing for the Eddycat is all in place and the deck panels are rough cut. |
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The deck panels for the Eddycat are trial fit. |
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| The Eddycat interior gets a final coat and the deck mast partner gets installed. |
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| The plywood deck is installed and ready for the Dynel fabric covering. |
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| Dynel fabric is installed on the deck. |
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| The floor boards get a final fit and finishing touches go on the dagger board . |
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| The cockpit coaming is installed. |
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| The hull is primed. |
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| Mike makes a marshmello fork and a four year repeating student does extra credit in a futile attempt to pass the course. |
Last modified Sunday, 27-Apr-2008 16:32:29 EDT
