Keel progress

[Rich VanValkenburg]

I haven't posted anything in a while, so here's where we're at. All faired in (except for a problem or two on the port side), ready for paint. Looks lumpy, but isn't. Seems like it's taken forever to get this far, even though I spend 3 or 4 nights a week and weekend mornings on it. I guess we won't be sailing this year, but this was the very last of the major projects keeping us dry all these years.

There are seams down there even if it doesn't look like it. One of them might be just a bit too tight. I had light through all of them but the humid weather shut one seam. I might rake that out with a hacksaw blade and make it consistent along it's 8' length.
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid72/p0b5242f911185dc0175c6dfa818e8668/fb7eb963.jpg

Rich

[ 08-03-2003, 05:10 PM: Message edited by: Rich VanValkenburg ]

[Art Read]

:cool: Love it! Can't wait to see the end result...

[Dave Fleming]

There are seams down there even if it doesn't look like it. One of them might be just a bit too tight. I had light through all of them but the humid weather shut one seam. I might rake that out with a hacksaw blade and make it consistent along it's 8' length.I would be verraah careful about diddling with a seam!
Is it on an existing plank or a new one you installed as it sounds like an existing one? Are the adjacent planks new or existing? If new, did you by chance 'edge set' those planks?

[ 08-04-2003, 01:20 PM: Message edited by: Dave Fleming ]

[brian.cunningham]

Looks like you'll be in the water before the end of the season! :cool:

[Rich VanValkenburg]

You scare me, Dave. I had a teacher in grade school named Mrs. Fleming. She used to put her reading glasses on the end of her nose and snear, 'Where's your work mr. vanbalkinbird?' She'd slam a 'D' on it without looking at it and slide it off her desk at my feet. My folks didn't care much for her. Me, I was too scared to feel anything but fear. Anyway, the seam is a new one, as are all below the garboard. The new plank above is 28' and I did my best to leave some light shining through it and keep that consistent the whole length. They're not 'edge set', but I didn't slide it in there and say a prayer either. As always before, I might see some puckering, or at least some compression in the new seams. Heck, I've seen 1/4" seams slam shut.

The boat has been stored dry and in a heated shed in winter. All the seams are a couple mm's wide but always close. I don't like the one that's shut just because it's been raining for three days. That's the one I think I should rake. And I still don't know what light-tight means.

Respectfully,

Rich

[Dave Fleming]

The boat has been stored dry and in a heated shed in winterPlank should be 'laid' tight, NOT Bone Crusher Tight but, snug to each other.
With you making an ***allowance***in those planks because of warm and dry conditions I cannot say what will be the result.

I realize it was nice to work in during the winter months but I am afraid you are going to pay a price for it, sigh