bow plank

[SteveFaehnle]

any rule on scantlings for a bow plank for my 26 ft Arch Davis "jack tar". thanks, Steve

[Bruce Hooke]

Maybe it's something particular to that design -- but otherwise, what do you mean by "bow plank"? That's not a term I've come across before... planks usually run fore and aft and so are referred to by their vertical location (e.g., "sheer plank" for the highest one). They attach to the stem, which runs perpendicular to the planks...

[Venchka]

Or perhaps a king plank running fore and aft starting at the stem on the deck?

[imported_Steven Bauer]

What do the plans say? And what is a bow plank?

Steven

[Wiley Baggins]

I am going to hazard a guess that you are talking about a plank for a bow pulpit. Is that correct?

[Bruce Hooke]

Originally posted by Wiley Baggins:
I am going to hazard a guess that you are talking about a plank for a bow pulpit. Is that correct?I bet you're right. In that case there are some key questions before we can get anywhere:

1. Will the bow stay come down to the outer end of this plank? If so, then there will presumably also need to be a wire from below where the bow stay attaches, running down to a fitting on the stem.

2. How long will the plank be (i.e., how far will it stick out)?

3. Is it shown at all on the plans or is this something you are adding? If the former aren't there dimensions on the plans?

[Venchka]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...the old bow plank

http://www.missrebecca.com/chris4.jpg http://www.missrebecca.com/chris9.jpg

Build her strong so Granny doesn't break it! :D

Really nice boat.

Miss Rebbeca (http://www.missrebecca.com/index.htm)

Cheers!

Wayne

[SteveFaehnle]

sorry for the poor info. the forward plank on Gary's "Miss Rebecca" is what I perhaps mistakenly referred to as a "bow plank". I have been on his boat and it is wonderful! I shall email him for dimenssions. thanks again. Steve

[WindHawk]

That would be a "bowsprit", would it not?

[Meerkat]

It would! smile.gif

[Venchka]

Get you a hunk of black locust. Or perhaps some 4/4 boards. Enough to glue up a proper bowsprit and the Samson post. Then get a liter can of Norwegian Varnishing Oil from Covey Island Boatworks in Nova Scotia. Apply the N.V.O. according to the directions on the can.

Stand back and listen to the applause.

Wayne
In the Swamp.

[warthog5]

Well seeing as how this is NOT going on a sail boat, it would be called a pulpit or anchor pulpit.

[Dave Fleming]

Posted photos were taken in Oceanside, CA., harbor.
Donn might recognize the fence behind the folks as the Camp Pendelton border fence.
For many years there was a gaggle of LARC's on the other side of the fence. Wonder what happened to them.

Since the Ms.Rebecca is a motor craft I have no idea of that to call the plank in question?

PS: Oceanside is about 30 or so miles north of San Diego, CA..

[Bob Smalser]

I recall them called them pulpits or pulpit planks on work boats...the lifelines usually seen surrounding them were seperate.

[Starboard]

My question is: Is that fish blood on the dock, or are we looking at the site of a mob hit? ;)

[Donn]

Originally posted by Dave Fleming:
Donn might recognize the fence behind the folks as the Camp Pendelton border fence.
For many years there was a gaggle of LARC's on the other side of the fence. Wonder what happened to them.They use LCAC's now.

http://www.militaryspot.com/gallery/data/506/2lcac4.jpg

We 'took' Pendleton Beach twice when I was there. Strange training to prepare for jungle combat in Vietnam, but fun. We used old Navy LCM's (Landing Craft Mechanized):

http://www.smdc.army.mil/kwaj/Media/Photo/LCM.jpg

We climbed down the nets into them, just like the old days.

What's a LARC?

[Dave Fleming]

What's a LARC? LARC or should it be LARK were Aluminum hulled amphibious wheeled vehicles.
IIRC, 40 feet long and wide enough for at least a jeep. Tires must have been 6 feet or so in diameter. Working shifts as a marine carpenter on the San Francisco waterfront, loaded and shored a number of them for duty in RVN.

Think of a DUKW on steriods.

[Hal Forsen]

I was a qualified assault boat coxswain and worked with the Mike boats and even more with the smaller LCVP. Now I walk my dogs and fish off the beach just north of the LCAC Barn.
No Beach Outta Reach.
OORAH!
HF