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11/13/10
Plans by Tom Gilmer. |
Printing the plan on the 3 foot plotter. |
1:20th scale plan. |
Station patterns in 1:20 scale. |
11/19
Forms on building board. |
9/17/11
Keel cut and fitted. |
10/8
Table saw rigged for ripping planks. |
ripping a plank. |
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planks! |
10/8
Starboard garboard going on. |
10/10
A few more strakes. |
10/15 |
10/21 |
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10/22
Sheer strake. |
Planking from the sheer
down connects with the transom. |
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10/23
Scribed the waterline and
planking continues. |
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10/27
Pulled almost all the pins, knocked off some bumps and ridges with the plane, and sanded a bit. |
10/29 |
10/30 |
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10/31 |
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11/1
Final plank. |
11/3
Pulling out form #10. |
11/4
Some more putty (note can in background). |
All sanded. |
Transome trimmed down to where it should be. |
11/5
Fully taped |
11/6
Made a stand |
11/11
3oz cloth laid on. |
11/12
Glassed. |
11/13
Unglassed. |
Forms pulled out. |
11/20
Resin inside. |
12/25
Port side glassed. |
12/27
Starboard side glassed. |
12/30
Transom glassed. |
1/18
Deck clamps installed and main beams fitted. |
1/19
First float in the tub. |
3/15
Another coat of resin after sanding. |
3/17
Stern post cut-out for prop. |
Deck beams fitted and tacked in place.
The pilot hole for the shaft stuffing box has been drilled as well. |
3/23
Dagger board trunk with 6" wide 1/8" aluminum plate. |
Installed in the hull. |
3/29
Dagger board trunk trimed down, capped, and braced. |
Motor mount bulkhead fitted and spaces between deck beams filled around perimeter. |
3/30
A much younger me in 1:20 scale. |
3/31
Making a cardstock deck template. |
Made a cardstock deck template. |
Cutting the tube that reenforces the keel-bolt hole. |
Board in place with keel-bolt installed. |
Starboard wale epoxied on. |
4/2
Starboard wale while wet port wale is clamped on. |
Port wale epoxied on. |
4/4
Port wale. |
A coat of primer. |
Waterline taped. |
4/5
Wales thinned out. |
Moss Green paint. |
Bottom painted. |
Sides painted to the tops of the wales. |
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Hawse bolsters and starboard molding going on. |
Forward channels cut; starboard one installed. |
4/6
Port side molding installed, more paint,
and gunports cut out. |
4/7
Fashion pieces fitted. |
Transom wings fitted. |
Transom arch epoxied on. |
Lower transom attached. |
4/9
Masked off to spray the red molding. |
Molding sprayed and some touch-up. |
Port quarter. |
4/10
Installing the port channels. |
Installing the starboard channel. |
A coat of paint drying outside. |
New deck clamps, resized deck beams,
mast partners, and cabin stringers. |
4/13
Transom filler installed and cabin trunk made. |
Cabin trunk. |
Tracing deck pattern onto plywood. |
Subdeck fitted. |
4/14
A little more paint and
some sticks to get an idea of what she'll look like. |
Deck furniture marked on subdeck. |
4/15:Table saw jig to cut parallel kerfs in underside of subdeck 1-1.2" apart. |
Kerfs cut. |
Subdeck will now bend to deck camber. |
4/17
Marking 1:20 scale measurements on the spar plan.. |
4/18
Motor mount plate from an electrical box cover. |
4/19
Trenails, also known as toothpicks. |
Pegging on the timber cap rail. |
One rail pegged while the other takes shape. |
Nipping off the pegs. |
Pegs cut, everything sanded, and some paint. |
4/20
Staining basswood sheets:
L: gray then oak
M: oak then gray
R: plain bass. |
Cutting planks. |
Looks like that will work. |
Access hatch cut in subdeck. |
Framing the access hatch. |
4/21
Cutting out the access hatch. |
Gluing up the access hatch cover. |
Additional deck framing and support posts at mast partners. |
Two hatches. |
Deck framing. |
Bulkhead #7 epoxied into the hull. The motor mount plate has been painted red. |
Wood from Pride's mast cut into 3/16" slabs. |
Constructing the cabin trunk. |
4/22
Bitts. |
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4/23
Aft riding bitt with windlass axle and knees. |
Forward bitts. |
4/24
Counter framing. |
Cabin top installed. |
Inside the cabin top. |
Skylight made of wood from the original boat. |
4/25
Oak block for rudder tube. |
Drilling the drift pin holes in the rudder. |
Test fit. |
Against the hull. |
Filling with J.B.Weld. |
Rudder tube in place-inside. |
Rudder tube in place-outside. |
Cabin top with trim, hatch, and skylight in place. |
4/26
Cutting the motice for the gudgeon plate mounting plate. |
Test fit, now I need some screws. |
The model so far with Greg Pease's book Sailing With Pride.
All of it's pictures have been very helpful. |
4/27
The gudgeon plate and the tools to tap the holes. |
Mounting plate epoxied and screwed in place. |
Job done. |
Counter replanked. |
Riding bitts glued to subdeck. |
Riding bitts glued to subdeck. |
Battery suppored installed. |
4/29
Binnacle box and hatch panels added;
cabin top and counter decking primed. |
4/30
Transom knees and clamp installed. |
Servo placement. |
Pump boxes started, Binnacle box corrected,
and transom knees trimmed. |
5/1
Focs'l hatch coaming. Drawn line is from deck plan, coaming is based on stuctural plan and photos. |
Prop, shaft, stuffing box, and motor link from Dumas. |
Sockets and nylon link for the motor. |
Hatch coamings added. |
Beginning the tiller. |
5/2
The tiller with a photo of the real one. |
5/3
Knees to support the servo tray. |
A look in the access hatch. |
5/4
Focs'l hatch gets a hinge. |
Hatch cover opens. |
Rudder servo in the cabin hatch. |
Sail control servo tray with main mast step. |
Focs'l hatch sitting in place. |
Cabin hatch with cover removed. |
Access hatch with cover removed. |
5/6
Sail control shuttle mock-up. |
5/7
Hull stood up to install stuffing box for prop shaft. |
The Traxxas 1260 rotary speed control. |
Rigged for a test run. |
5/8
Speed control mount. |
5/9
Speed control mounted in hull. |
5/10
Full size sail plan on shop wall. |
Jib altered to reduce amount sails overlap. |
5/11
Cutting a V groove in a test piece. |
Test piece glued up; made 8 sided, made round. |
Making cheek blocks for the riding bitts. |
Cheek blocks on the aft bitts. |
5/12
"Iron" banding on pumps made from bass. |
Foremast tenon. |
fits into an oak mast step. |
5/13
Cream colored paint on most of the furniture, and "iron" pump bands painted black. |
Foremast cut, stained, and painted. |
Hole made in subdeck for foremast. |
5/14
Cross-trees and trestle-trees parts cut. |
Fore mast set glued and pinned. |
Hounds installed. |
Painted black. |
5/15
Plywood cut for caps. |
Tape around perimer to represent iron banding. Fore cap painted, main cap is next. |
Outside the shop for a little sunshine. |
5/16
One of the cedar boards left over from
Constellation that will make Pride's masts. |
Cedar ripped into 1/4" thick boards. |
1/4" board ripped into 5/16" strips. |
Pushing the strips through the router to cut the V-groove. |
Strips laid out by stave. |
Gluing up the mast. |
Almost there. |
All bound up with rubber bands and a string clamp. |
5/17
All set up and bindings removed. |
Ridges planed off to 8-sided. |
Heel plugged. |
Head getting plugged. |
Marking out the doubling. |
Rounding the mast between the head and the bury. |
Cross-trees and trestle-trees assembled. |
Head shaped with hounds, cross-trees, cap. |
5/18
Beginning the bowsprit. |
Opening the bulwark for the bowsprit. |
Mini-me checks the fit. |
5/19
8-sided from near the bulwark out. |
Round from the end of the head knee out. |
Tenon cut. |
Sleeved holes in bitts for shear pin. |
Cap cut out. |
So far. |
5/20
Made the hand-pump hardware. |
5/22
bowsprit cap and bees. |
Stay holes in fore topmast cap sleeved. |
Bobstay holes in stem sleeved. |
5/23
Dolphin striker and spreaders. |
5/24
Tiller parts. |
All together and in place. |
Set screw in placed when it can be accessed. |
5/30
False rudder head installed. |
Mast hoops. |
Compared to the real thing. |
5/31
Finished hoops on the mast. |
Stained hoops drying. |
Installing foremast cleats. |
Cleats installed and painted. |
6/1
Pennant cut with new hot-knife blade. |
Tubing guides steering cables below deck... |
...from the lazerette hatch. |
Cedar block reenforces the tubing. |
6/2
Foresail cut from Supplex with the hot-knife. |
6/3
All the sails cut and ruled. |
6/4
Steering fair-lead block under sub-deck. |
New fabric glue. |
6/5
Three heads'ls tried on for size. |
Fore t'gallant and "The Eye of Sauron." |
6/6
Squares added to the laundry list. |
6/8
Fully clothed. |
6/9
Boom, yards, gaffs. |
6/11
Boom and gaff's jaws and slots cut to receive them. |
Main mast table and boom jaws. |
Main gaff and jack-yard. |
Sail hung up on the wall and the yards laying across the rail. |
6/12
Stuns'l boom iron. |
Ring-tail boom iron on boom with a photo of the real thing below. |
6/14
Blackened stuns'l boom iron and stuns'l boom on painted yard. |
Thickened boom saddle. |
Jackstays. |
6/18
T'gallant got a bolt-rope and is attached to it's yard. |
6/30
Four lowers set. |
7/1
1/2" blocks. |
7/2
A 1/2" block and a 3/8" block. |
7/6
Throat halyard double blocks. |
Fore peak halyard rove through. |
7/10
3/8" block stropped. |
Setting sails for display next week. |
7/13
Main tops'l and flying jib bolt-roped and set. |
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