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by Patricks Dad
Wed Mar 23, 2005 11:47 pm
Forum: Builders' Forum
Topic: Stripe in deck pattern
Replies: 12
Views: 3340

Getting back to Chris' original question on decks.... the Canoecraft book recommends inserting a spline between 2 pieces of deck in circumstances where the short grain in the deck pieces meet end-to-end (leaving the long grain to follow the inwales for a good joint there). Our plan was to install a ...
by Patricks Dad
Wed Mar 23, 2005 11:24 pm
Forum: Builders' Forum
Topic: Stripe in deck pattern
Replies: 12
Views: 3340

Thanks for the research (as usual). I did a couple drawings this afternoon to see what various radii would look like. 6" is kind of wide for what we're looking for. I'll try to push the limits to see what happens. If it fails, I'm sure Patrick will come up with something else. He's just about t...
by Patricks Dad
Wed Mar 23, 2005 10:57 pm
Forum: Builders' Forum
Topic: Stripe in deck pattern
Replies: 12
Views: 3340

Excellent recovery on the broken inwale! it looks great (I'll keep that in mind when we install our inwales (my dad used to say that "anyone can screw something up but it takes a good carpenter to hide it"). We've been thinking about the "comfortable hand hold" aspect for our dec...
by Patricks Dad
Wed Mar 23, 2005 7:12 pm
Forum: Builders' Forum
Topic: Stripe in deck pattern
Replies: 12
Views: 3340

Glen, your deck looks alot like a design Patrick came up with recently - including using walnut (he's added a couple bells and whistles but yours looks awesome!). I see you terminated your inwales at the deck rather than tapering them along side the deck.

Pros and con's of the two approaches?
by Patricks Dad
Wed Mar 23, 2005 2:53 pm
Forum: Builders' Forum
Topic: Gunwale cross section dimensions
Replies: 2
Views: 1265

We milled our gunwales over the weekend for our Redbird. They started as 7/8" wide by 3/4" tall 18' long pieces of cherry. The sheerline of the Redbird is about 1 foot shorter than the overall length of the canoe so our gunwale stock was excessive. We beveled the bottom side (up and away f...
by Patricks Dad
Wed Mar 23, 2005 1:22 pm
Forum: Builders' Forum
Topic: Link to my photo Album
Replies: 3
Views: 1496

The Redbird looks great! What are you going to use for gunwales?
by Patricks Dad
Tue Mar 22, 2005 8:07 am
Forum: Builders' Forum
Topic: To scupper, or not to scupper
Replies: 6
Views: 2407

A couple comments on scuppers (or not). It really is a personal preference. We cut scuppers in our cherry inwales last weekend. Upon re-weighing them, we found we had dropped 2 pounds in weight (due to scuppers, beveling and edge-rounding - not yet tapered) so the weight difference isn't huge (but 2...
by Patricks Dad
Tue Mar 22, 2005 7:57 am
Forum: Builders' Forum
Topic: Red Bird Seat Dimensions
Replies: 1
Views: 935

Its me,

I believe the dimensions are as follows (measured from center of the canoe to the front edge of seat)

Bow 40"
Stern 48-52"
by Patricks Dad
Sun Mar 20, 2005 7:19 pm
Forum: Builders' Forum
Topic: how do you cut scuppers?
Replies: 10
Views: 4013

Here's a picture of the setup Patrick described above: http://img.groundspeak.com/cache/805d00ae-d268-4cfc-ac59-ca3a6f2f8870.jpg Here's one of the results (a bit of burn on the entry (Cherry) and a few of the exits but not very visible given the flared angle of the scupper using 11 1/4 degree taper ...
by Patricks Dad
Thu Mar 17, 2005 6:11 pm
Forum: Builders' Forum
Topic: Sanding the inside of the hull - do I have to spread it ?
Replies: 9
Views: 2933

I believe you could. But they would have a tendency to fall over. You would need to find a way to fasten them to the sheerline. Also, once you start putting inwales in place, you will need to notch the forms to make room for the inwales vs shortening the spreader sticks.
by Patricks Dad
Tue Mar 15, 2005 11:47 pm
Forum: Boat-Building Tips & Techniques
Topic: Fun and Games
Replies: 2
Views: 5480

We've completed the glassing of the inside and have started to trim up the sheerline near the bow and stern. This turned out to be more difficult than expected. We found that it was somewhat difficult to lay a level perfectly perpendicular to the centerline of the canoe to judge the port and starboa...
by Patricks Dad
Fri Mar 11, 2005 3:51 pm
Forum: Builders' Forum
Topic: Sanding fiberglass/epoxy
Replies: 11
Views: 2938

I used a utility knife to trim along the sheerline. It worked OK. When trimming along the inside stem after glassing the inside, I found that a sharp chisel worked great (wish I had thought of that before trimming along the sheerline. The (sharp) chisel is a marvelous tool!
by Patricks Dad
Fri Mar 11, 2005 8:22 am
Forum: Project Directories
Topic: 17' 6" RedBird
Replies: 40
Views: 102482

Thanks again Glen. Once we get our gunwales seats and yoke in place, we'll evaluate putting in a thwart on our redbird.
by Patricks Dad
Thu Mar 10, 2005 11:05 pm
Forum: Project Directories
Topic: 17' 6" RedBird
Replies: 40
Views: 102482

thanks Glen, I'll do just that (once I get back home - currently in Dallas on business today). Good canoeing weather down here!
by Patricks Dad
Thu Mar 10, 2005 5:01 pm
Forum: Project Directories
Topic: 17' 6" RedBird
Replies: 40
Views: 102482

One other question (upon looking at the picture again). I don't believe that the Redbird plans that Patrick and I are working from include any thwarts. Is there something that made you add thwarts? Should we be adding thwarts?