Saturday

Another day off, got the surf boat finished up.
10'2" 24 3/4" 22 pounds.

Below is strong woman Helaine, 20 lbs boat.


15'8" x 22" 10'2" x 24 3/4"


Quite the stack of boats going. Already started the next one.

Why don't I try to put through mortise's on the deck beams. Well it is not easy at all, especially when you break of the tennon, in the gunwale.

3 year's

1.18.08


Three year's and a day.
My very first sof frame, I started it three year's ago. The picture below the frame has been in the same shape for at least 2 1/2 years. Today I got all fired up. First I cut new rib stock, put in 6 new ribs.



It did not take long to get going as I have had all the stringers ready to go. Try to get as flat a hull as I could.

Perhaps 5 hours today to get everything done except the deck stringers. Should be a fun boat in the surf. It is based on a recovery kayak from Morris's book. It could be a good pool boat, will see.

I'm going to have to get some skin soon as this is the second boat I have waiting. Starting on Helaine's new boat next.

Nice afternoon paddle

1.15.08
Beautiful afternoon,
Helaine and I got out today for a quick trip at our local launch. I spent the morning shaping on my storm paddle. I thought it was close, it was like paddling with a long brick. I forgot to slide the paddle a couple of times, almost went over a couple of times. More shaving's in the future.




Above is the store at the boat ramp.

I am amazed at the people that go out of their way to stop and check out the boats when we launch here. Nice that people appreciate the effort.
When we got there the tide was going out pretty quick, so quick Helaine was in the boat and gone before I knew it. The sun was out, beautiful water, low tide. We paddled south towards Point Richmond, we went maybe two miles. Turned around and caught the ebb heading north very fast return.
Gotta get hunny in the boat more!!!



Oh yea, looks like drilling thru the boat makes them leak. Need to find a fix.

Another day off

Helaine and I started the day chasing down latigo for the boats. After a few fabric / craft shops we got two bags of remnants, just long enough to try. A little lashing left to finish the frame.

front view
stern

Rocker compairison

Finished off the evening putting on deck lines. Very scary taking the drill to the boat, after the first one I got over it. Hope they don't leak too much.

On to the next frame, Helaine's next boat. Going to change quite a few thinks from the first boat I made her. The only thing's I know I'm going to change right now is the depth, lenght, perhaps the width. Not changing much. It will be much lighter.

About time

Well it has been a long time since I got any work on the boat.
We baby sat our granddaughter Raidan and she got Helaine sick,
who turned around and gave it to me.

I did some work in the week, laminating the masik and cockpit rim's, screwed that up. I should not play while sick.






Saturday 1.12.08



Today I got the frame finished. Put on breast hooks, sanded the frame, put on the masik on finished the deck beams. I might put on a different cockpit rim, going for low rim for layback rolls.

20 lbs total for the frame, hope it holds up. I had a piece of cockpit rim snap with the sound of a gunshot when it snapped, I'll know when something breaks.
I'd say 6 more hours on the frame, 25 total so far.

Sunday 1.6.08
Happy B-day Pop's

No boat work today or yesterday.
Saturday 1.5.08
Yesterday did two runs on the Elwah river outside of Port Angeles. First time in a W/W boat in three month's, had a blast. It is a short 2+ ish run. Boofed a big rock on the first run, went over got a good roll and popped up. Second run, I did not commit to boofing the same rock as the first time. Went over ass backwards, on my off side. Boy were my 4 attempts at rolling UGLY!!! I got up on # 4 just as Gabrielle got along side, to pull my lame ass up.
Might want to work on that.


Friday 1.4.08
Got the keelson and the chines lashed on. Put lots of rocker on this one.
Picture's are of mockup's for the Masik. 3 hour's lashing, up to 19 hour's total.

First paddle

Today I finally got out in the boat, for the first time this year. Plate glass as I paddled out of the bay at Olalla boat ramp. Third time out in the sof, sixth or seventh time with a greenland paddle.
Headed south towards Point Richmond, nice easy paddle along the shoreline. The boat felt pretty good, after adjusting it. I noticed how you can feel the waves roll down the side of the boat/ your leg, not to mention the cold on your butt.
The forecast was for 25-30 knots late in the afternoon. On the water at 11:30, should be no problem? The wind was light but the gusts were becoming fairly frequent. A little farther, getting some miles in. I got to the Point at 12:10. In 10 minutes the wind and waves grew, making me fairly uncomfortable. I started the run for home, 3.5 miles.
Waves were directly behind to fully on the beam, 1-2' I know does not sound like much. Because I am not comfortable trying to roll this boat, I was staying close to shore, the windward shore. Being that close to shore I was getting a lot of waves over the bow / deck all the way to the cockpit.
I was sweating it all the way back, felt a little in over my head. As I got to the last bulkhead I was thinking I got it, the wave jumps up to 3'. I am looking down the face, I instinctively clench my cheeks, look to the left and it is breaking along the cement wall 3' away from me. Funny through all of this not once did I feel the need to latch onto the boat with my leg's. It was all hip swiveling and telling myself to relax.


Thursday 1-4

Lots of work done on the next boat. Picked from last night by setting the stem and stern.
This went well, everything is going better as I have done it before.


Next is the rib's. I ripped plenty of material for them, I have not used this kind of wood before it is so light. I used the romex method for ribs, I like how this works out. Set up the steam box and got going. The wood steamed quite well, towards the ends the ribs compressed a little funny.


When you get all excited and start to lash the deck beams, remember to check where the mortises are, like I did here.


Got all the rib's done in a few hours. Check out the rocker I put into this boat, should be quite different than the first one.


Spent the most of the day working on the boat 6-7 hours, let's say 16 hours total as of now.

Happy New Year!!!!

Trying a different way of putting stuff on here, pic's first then the words, other way really sucked. No paddle for the new year, but I did get in some work on the boat. Got in some of the deck beams, ran out of dowels.
So I broke out the wood I got for paddles. I ripped the 4x4, I'll get two nice paddles out of it. The first one I'm making is a storm paddle, I have not tried to make one yet.

Perhaps an hour /hour and a half to get this far. Spent the rest of the night and a lot of the next day with a bad headache. The Red Cedar really does a number on my head, if I was smart I would remember to wear my respirator, no chance of that.


Wednesday 2nd,
I got the dowels I needed and some more pine. Finished off the flat deck beams, lashed them in place. I weighted the gunnels and deck beams, as you see below it was 11 lbs.



I got the stem and stern set in the gunnel's. Then started to work on the depth of the boat, going much shallower than the first boat. So I can do a lay back roll. Looks like it will be around 5" deep at the back of the cockpit. Putting more rocker in this one as well, will see how it floats.






Over the last two day I have put 4-5 hours into the boat, 9 hour's total time so far.