Short Visit

Saw Benji & Charlie.

Catch up

A lot has happened since the last note. These pictures are old, from Nov. More new frames in the duckboat, Carolyn reinstalling seats in SPYDER, one full boat shop, Jeff working on the chart case for OLYMPIA. Since then I have become a grandma, and had major constructive surgery on my head. Christmas & New Years came and went. I am getting better and preparing for a new quarter and my thesis project.

I have decided to use a Core Sound 17 as the basic application of the new technology I am planning to develop. It is the closest to meeting all the desired inputs from earlier discussions on this blog, affordable, and two fellow TSCA members are building the same boat, providing control subjects. I am excited by their level of building skill and know those boats will be well founded. Since we are friends and members of the same TSCA we will be able to compare methods and building techniques along the way. Those boats will serve as the controls for my experimental applications.

I see this project in several phases.

Composite Hull Materials testing.
1. Punch samples, weigh, waves, stranding, strength test of fiber. Compare glass, carbon, mixed and kevlar fibers. Get books, formula, from Dr. Pastore.
2. Laminate samples to Marine ply, drop test, delamination, sheer, torque, penetration. Find devices for testing.
3. Filler materials. Compare stock (off the shelf) fillers to more ecological types, Concepts: lint, sifted sawdust, $,ground vegetable wheat/rice hulls, straw, linen tow) matter, etc. Make deformation tests, sandability, gravity, sag, viscosity, formability, smoothness, filleting, fairing, etc.

Application testing.
A full size hull mock up will be constructed to determine modifications for comfort (Rob Fryer).
Auxiliary power. The sustainable version will have no oil burning power devices, like an outboard engine, electric may be considered. A Hobie drive and oars will be accommodated with in the design.
A shelter will be designed for overnight and inclement weather. Interior cockpit area will be designed for both comfort underway and camping arrangements. Stowage and
Sailing performance will be optimized. Sails will be compared to the sprit rig as supplied by the designer. Rigs to be tested will include full batten Harrier (Tony Diaz), junk, and lug. Models will be wind tunnel tested for drive, power and angle of point.
Tested material/products will be applied to full size hull and compared with classically built version for sustainability.

Happy Thanksgiving

Turkeys by Rancocas creek.









One cord stacked.








Bronze/copper vs iron. Look at the difference in these split out frames from the sneakbox. After 50 years the copper clench nails are good as new, bronze screws almost as good (top). Look at the clean holes with little deposition. The iron swells as it rusts, infiltrating the wood and destroying the tissues(bottom). In the planks, I can put my finger through some of the rusted iron fastener holes, but am using no. 10 bronze screws to refasten in the original copper nail holes.


Put in two new frames and refastened planks on the starboard side.

Mid-November

Three boats, one joiner. The shop is really crowded with boats. This week we worked on the chart flat file for OLYMPIA, SPYDER and the old Perrine sneakbox. I re-sawed cedar for the CHAD kids to laminate. and stacked firewood.

Full House

There is a new Perrine Sneakbox, SPYDER is back, SILENT MAID ongoing, MISLEADING LADY in waiting, The PENN YAN is piggy back on SILENT MAID. Jeff asked if I could bring in a few more boats from my yard to round things out a bit.

Coamings for the Lady

Bobby fitting a pattern for MISLEADING LADY's dashboard, while Jeff & Hartley drill & screw on the cockpit coaming. I made mahogany bungs and put them in later.

Mast partners for SILENT MAID.

Old Town

The OLD TOWN with trim bright work installed.






A boat skin made of cotton canvas. It is gray primer over cotton, over thin cedar planking.

Visitor

SIGSBEE at the museum dock.

Sangbagger model

Workshop News

The Old Town has been covered in canvas and primed. I glued on the stern piece. I would have tacked or stapled it too, but not here.


Carolyn fitting berths in Silent Maid. Newt was working on the mast partners.






Here is the engine for Misleading Lady suspended in place. It will have a V-drive which you can see blocked out in plywood.
The shop is also working on a Pen Yan boat.

Gazella

Gazella out sail training on the Delaware.

Soy?

http://bresslergreen.typepad.com/blog/internal_bg_sustainability_efforts/

Jersey Skiff

http://www.ghboats.com

Gig Harbor boat
classic boats in modern materials

Core Sound 17

Core Sound 17'
http://fivenineclimber.com/boats_sailing/coresound17.htm
http://fivenineclimber.com/boats_sailing/articles/cs17_sca_part_one.htm

RoguePaddler

http://roguepaddler.com/
A blog on building a Core Sound boat, a simplilar design to a comforatble beach cruiser.

Splined Decking

Misleading lady

St. Michaels MASCF #26

Barnegat sneakbox duckboat at the dock in St. Mikes.








The air was light and the start line short, so everyone had a chance to gam for awhile.






A pair of duckers in the boatshop. The green one is a Joe Lieneir boat.




The Lawley tender built for ELF by the Apprentice shop. It is book matched sassafras. Check Sailorgirl for more photos of the Mid Atlantic Small Craft Festival 2008.

Misleading Lady

Shop News

Went sailing on ELF. Set the topsail. That is a pretty sight.





Work is progressing on SILENT MAID. She is getting her deck; carlins and deckbeams. The PEN YAN and the Old Town are getting new ribs and planking. The bed logs and floors are going into MISLEADING LADY.

Torch

Evening race out of Seaside Park YC. Light air. 11 boats out.