Woody Phase five coming along nicely.

On track for my target completion date of mid July - today I was gifted several usefull accessories of a safety nature as well as a fishfinder and GPS by Max.  The dashboard will hopefully have a usefull complement of instruments, including a clock. voltmeter and compass. 

About to be added next is the middle layer of ply which will run longitudinally.

Woody build phase three

14th February starts with some steam bending and sticky stuff gluing a couple of joints that failed and inserting wooden dowels along the chine and hog.  The slideshows gives you an idea of this early formative stage

Grandads Woody Runabout Stage 2.

The basic frame is now almost completed and I expect to be adding the gunnel strakes next week and to begin to lay down the first layer of ply skin by early March.
 The video below shows how restricted for space I am in my man-cave little garage 9' wide x 22' long. 

https://youtu.be/drVn3IjXPQU

I intend to lay the ply on the frame in strips. Diagonaly with three layers on the bottom, two to the sides and two for the decking. The floor may be fitted as a false sealed void - undecided so far. I may also fit side chambers forming extra flotation chambers. However, initially the need is to calculate whether that weight is justified. I am building strength but without too much weight penalty.

Grandad's woody Runabout

Runabout build.
Following the moulded ply dinghy built last year, I now have a more sporty type of craft on the stocks that will be quicker on the water. At 12' 8" long and 4'9" beam for a 20 hp outboard motor.
The half mould 1/8th scale model was made for offsets to be taken along a centre line which is common practice.
Eleven sectional moulds are mounted along a jig. The jig is set on three support trestles with castor wheel feet to give mobility within a confined garage area. With my own design there is no instruction guide to work from and inaccuracies to the model are magnified eightfold once scaled up. Before the build can commence the truing up process has to be done and a pleasing shape will soon emerge.
Two or three layers of ply will enable  compound curves in the area of the bow and stern.

Transom upside down on jig

Bouancy chambers will be incorporated with a bulkhead forward of the dashboard and narrow side tanks. A stern bulkhead/false transom will provide a rear buoyancy tank and a well for the outboard motor.
My ideas are taken from features of various designs, including Albatross and the rib type of craft that have strakes and spray rails along the
chines.
An outboard of 20 or 30 hp will be required to ensure that this craft will be capable of planing at approx 20 knots.
February will be taken up with fitting the keel, chines, stem and strakes onto the eleven cross section moulds. Only then shall I be at the point of laying down the ply laminations. Much like the cold moulded craft made previously, except that each of the strips will be up to twelve inches wide and approximately five mm thickness. A waterproof pva type glue is being used but for the laminating Cascamite will be used instead.

Stem showing bulkhead at station five which forms bouancy chamber