Final outrigger shape

[brian.cunningham]

I setup a new page showing the final shape of my outriggers.

http://temp.corvetteforum.net/c4/bcunningham//swiftwood/final_shape.htm

I've also added an index to the bottom of my main page (click the link below) to all the pages on my little adventure.

[brian.cunningham]

No comments.

I guess this section really is slowing down.

[Bob.S.]

Brian,

Actually I've been watching your progress for a while. I was wondering what lead you down that path to begin with. If it is just the fun of building something new and different that's totally understandable. But was there something about the stock design that you didn't like?

Just curious.

- Bob

[Paul Scheuer]

Brian: It took a while to review and refresh my memory. Looks like you've got it under control, now. I had a little trouble understanding the pics. I think I see a transom that I forgot about. I was looking for a canoe stern.

Any general wisdom for the rest of us? We all learn from our mistakes. It's a lot cheaper and easier on the blood pressure, if we learn from someone else's.

Looks to me like there's a whole lot more to the stitch & glue, tortured plywood method, than it sounds like when you read it.

[brian.cunningham]

When I started the boat I was looking into designs that I could use for a liveaboard. So SWIFTWOOD is not so much a kayak as it is a prototype for a much larger boat.

Nothing against with the initial design, I just wanted more speed. Though from contacting people the original design, it needs a bigger rudder, the leeboard needs to be moved back some, and they have trouble getting “lock in irons” and need to be paddle around.

The transoms are there to help out the hullspeed of the floats. When she gets going I hoping to be able to 'fly' the central hull. Which also dictates rudders on the floats. Which are a little easier to mount on a transom. They'll be kickup's BTW. I'm still working on how to link them all together.

The butt joints really messed up the idea of torturing the hulls. They still are tortured, but just at the transom. I like the looks. I'll have to see what the resulting flair does. If you want to torture hulls use scarfs.

Staggering the joints made getting them symmetric a bit of a bear. But I still do it that way. and go with an alignment jig to begin with.

Jigs are used in stitch & glue. If you get Sam Devlin's book he uses them. Some of his designs are quite large. I don’t think I’d do this again w/o a jig.

[ 01-30-2003, 11:45 PM: Message edited by: brian.cunningham ]