New (old) Project

[Glen Smith]

You're making good progress, Randy.

[Jim Dodd]

WOW !!!!

Jim

[Patricks Dad]

I've finished steaming and bending all the ribs. Last night I started gluing the ribs in place. This is gonna take awhile...

[Cruiser]

Big project, great progress and skill to be envied ..... but the best are the gluing jigs, you just have to love that.

[BearLeeAlive]

Yeah, I too must commend you on your jig building. They make tasks much easier to do, and are sure fun to design and implement.

[Patricks Dad]

While using my jigs to clamp ribs in place, there are a few "half ribs" that can be dealt with by other means to make more progress...



I'm down to only 5 ribs to go now. Should be done next week. Starting to look for lumber for new gunwales! It will be good to work on something different for a change.

[Patricks Dad]

After 2 months of working on ribs, I finished installing all the ribs today. I have new gunwale stock soaking to be steam bent in a couple days.

[BearLeeAlive]

That's one heck of a lot of ribs. They sure do look great. Looking forward to the rest of the (re)build.

[Patricks Dad]

rigged up and extended my steamer. Steamed and bent both outwales yesterday...




Will let them dry a couple days before installing...

[Patricks Dad]

Outwales are on. Inwales ready to install tomorrow. Two coats of epoxy on the ribs...

[Patricks Dad]

Inwales installed... Time to worry about some seats!

[Whitworks]

Beautiful. Craftsmanship is far from dead as long as a few souls are willing to take this much care... and you can never have enough (small) clamps ;)

Mark

[sedges]

I hope that you will install a nicer set of knees than the cap knees that were original. Knees flush with the top of the transom and gunwales and strongly fastened will add much strength to put up with the stress of an outboard on a rough day.

Your work is inspiring!

[Jim Dodd]

Another WOW !!! I can't hardly wait !
Awesome job !!!
Jim

[Patricks Dad]

Sedges,
I hadn't considered different knee braces. The cast aluminum cap braces were on pretty well (had to drill the screws out to get them off). Also, the two seats in the back of the boat are fastened to the transom and the side of the hull (epoxy and screws) through the seat support structure. I would think they would provide plenty of support to the transom as well. The transom is also another 3/4" thicker than it used to be and is glassed on both sides and to the hull. I'm thinking this is much stronger than the original structure.

your thoughts?