10 Mar 2010 : Just keep swimming
By : Stephane
Good day all,
I hope you are all doing great.
Here life is quite changing in the last weeks. Lack of fund slow us down a bit as we run out of glue, during that time I started to do bronze pattern for later on the boat.
Now that we got glue again, the stem knee is almost done. This became the smallest and more expensive part of the boat! It's a part with a good curve, so we can't do it in a straight grained piece of wood, we then laminated lot's of 1/4" strip of wood on top of each other bending them to the curve. It take us 3 times the amount of wood to make the strip (The thickness of the blade remove wood, + planning remove wood) and almost 1 gallon of expensive glue. I hope to don't see this piece fail later in the boat as this will really make us mad....
We decided to buy money from the bank too (I prefer the term buy instead of borrow, as you pay a lot to have it....) to speed up the process. This way we can buy all needed to finish the backbone and the frames, which will give us a break until the planking.
Catherine started to take pictures again ... Soon we will start to assemble the pieces which will be nice pictures to take.
Have fun.
20 Jan 2010 : 2 more.
By : Stephane
Hello All,
first of all a big thanks to Richard & Helen Weston for their nice donation/gift for Christmas/New Year it is greatly appreciate and will serve to buy the rivets & glue for the frames of the boat.
I have put a new page on line showing which part I am working on and which one are done which I think can interest some of you at : http://www.peacefuljourney.ca/progress.php
2 other pieces are done on the boat, one of the big one too named the "gripe" which is show in progress (Still some finishing to on it) on the link above. I do not have put pictures online as for me it is all the same, planning and gluing pieces you see one and you have seen them all, but that's me and I guess from a outside point of view it's different. So I am asking you, if there is something you want to see or how do I do something and I will take a video/picture for you, just tell me!
Next week I will have some helper coming and we gonna cut the keel timber, 18ft long this gonna be some interesting time doing it on the band saw. We also run out of that expensive glue for the backbone which we will probably next week or 2 as this is not a cheap adhesive. Meanwhile I will be making more patterns for the boat out of the lofting done 2 or 3 months ago.
We have done the lofting in what will be the "kitchen" in a "In building progress" house, now we have a deadline beginning of march to remove the lofting from there and make all the patterns before that...
Will see how that turn out!
Take care all & Have fun!
Stephane & Catherine.
PS: I received sometime questions about my strange English, it's because I am a native French speaker we write in English because most of our "International" friends speak all a bit of this language.
05 Jan 2010 : Routine
By : Stephane
Hello all!
First of all happy new year to all!
Here it is the routine pretty much, we did bought a electric planer which make me save 2 or 3 days by pieces! We also received a new blade for the band saw, which let me cut into 8" of wood like if it was butter ... this one too is a time saver!
Catherine finally get hired full time at the job for a contract of 18 months (Which is perfect). A friend let us borrow is wood heater to put in the extension of the garage to warm up this winter.
The extension is still not open until we are starting to bolt together all the pieces, 4 pieces are done and the fifth should be finish in a day or two (9 pieces in total). It's getting there slowly!
We have put pictures in the gallery of another #116 that we are builing but that was done some years ago. The hull line will stay the same, but we gonna make some change on the deck (and colors).
We will have more info/pictures to put as soon the backbone will be up. Right now it's pretty much the routine of gluing which they pretty much all look the same.
Have fun all!
22 Dec 2009 : Nothing really new...
By : Stephane
Hello all!
Nothing really new in the last 2 weeks... the day pass by with planning and clamping wood to make slowly all the 9 pieces to bolt together the backbone.
It take me several days to achieve a 1/64" or less joint between the pieces, they are wide and thick so clamping will not move them much to fix defect ... (I also do it with hand tools, no money for machinery for now)
Winter settle in and we have now around 1 ft of snow (30cm)... We started to trap rabbit in the forest at the back of the building site which is now part of our routine as the boat.
I will need another 3 weeks before finishing all the part of the backbone, some piece need to be done with veneer to follow the curve (1/4 thick piece bend to a shape) and this take a good amount of work.
Take care all!
30 Nov 2009 : Gluing
By : Stephane
Hello all,
I know it's been quite a while!
Well ... let's see we received the glue we are waiting for 3 days ago. I have done all patterns of the pieces (Profile view) last week, and started this weekend shaping parts for the boat! We just finished to glue 2 big pieces together. This is where we discover that we (Me & Catherine) are both perfectionist!
I have planed the wood until my straight edge show absolutely no gap to the size smaller then a hair, then with Catherine finding gap, I put a sand paper into my plane and sand lightly every where and correcting those little gap left. Both pieces was near perfection before gluing!
Strong clamp every foot, and messy glue was done and now we have a glue line less then 1/64 everywhere, as a thin paper sheet... Resorcinol asked for tight fit and high pressure, well I think if the glue fail it won't come from there!
We are putting new pictures into the Gallery section.
Have fun all!
11 Nov 2009 : It's getting there!
By : Stephane
Hello all!
So here we go received lot's of wood this week. Some really nice quality of it and it smell good into the shed!
We started the extension of the shed for the building, we will extend it only 10 ft for the winter then adding 20 ft and move the backbone into it next summer. It's just with the investment on wood, glue, clamps etc ... we needed to cut somewhere as we have limited fund.
I am rebuilding all my planes during that time, and only waiting the next pay check to buy the glue and start the wood. The glue is only available in 1 place in all north America because I want the best adhesive available on the market, for those who know it's a high strengh gap filling resorcinol (Aerodux 500).
I have also finished the fairing all the lines on the lofting and will start the making of patterns this week. Everything worked with good timing for now!
Catherine still got some work but it's as a replacement with maybe a opening at the end. We gonna wish and see!
Take care all!
30 Oct 2009 : Wood is coming.
By : Stephane
Hello everyone,
sorry to have been lazy a bit on Internet in the last few weeks.
Nothing really new happen in our world now, we became a bit of a routine. We ordered and will receive next week a good part of the wood needed (3000 pounds(1360 kilo) of wood). We bought in the same time black locust for the frames, he was having some nice pieces air dried since 8 years and we saved the shipping for buying it now.
Our credit card are now on the limit, and we will begin the routine of working and pay the credit, put more on the credit etc ... Until the boat is finish! ;) We have a real problem finding the glue that we want for the backbone, and the one place I have found is really expensive (500$ us for 1 gallon (3,23 liter)) but I think we gonna go for that. Having to repair the backbone if one day the glue fail will cost us more then that! For those interested it's some Aerodux 500, a gap filling improved resorcinol.
Hopefully we will have some nice pictures to put online soon!
Take care all.
Stéphane & Catherine.
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