Grabbed a couple of hours to work on the frames today. The plans are for a 14' Canadian, from Spira International. As others have observed, the plans come a little light on details, but all of the necessary information is there to calculate everything that's needed. A quick search for an online trig calculator, and I was off to the races!
After the math was…
ContinuePosted on March 19, 2011 at 4:01pm — 1 Comment
The strong back is up! It has been a battle to carve out even a little time to get this started, but I finally buckled down and did a quick trip to pick up some lumber. I was happy and surprised to find that Lowe's had some good looking select DF in 1x4, so I sorted through those and brought home about 72ft for the frames. That means I stand a reasonable chance of putting this strong back to its intended use, although not for the rest of this weekend or next week. Hoping to put aside…
ContinuePosted on March 11, 2011 at 4:21pm
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Hey Duncan, did you finish your boat? I still would like to see you on the Yak sometime. Let me know how things are.
Mark
Hey Duncan, I failed to load a picture of the Mariah in the album pages. Just look for a blank page with Mariah on it. Glad to see you are moving on your boat. I will look forward to seeing more of it.
Mark
Hey Duncan, good to see another Yakima wood boat guy. I finished my 16 foot Tatman last June. You can see it on the album Mariah on this site. Maybe we will run into each other on the Yak sometime.
Tight lines, Mark Griffith
Welcome to the site and all the wooden boat chatter... you'll have lots of help from this group - if you get stuck, just post a pic and a question & you'll plenty of input....
GH