View Full Version : Finally some progress...ribs are in
Chadd Hamilton
03-07-2003, 10:13 AM
It's been a long time since I posted any update on the Feather Pram I am building.
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid54/pe8d577f9232d1db5723068f97e13af00/fc8a79e4.jpg
I finally got the ribs bent in (only broke one in the process) and the rub rail and inwhale cap on. She starting to look like a boat.
I'll have to say this: After coming this far, I really have respect for traditional boat builder.
Glue lap is so much easier and faster. I think my biggest challenge was laying off rivet lines. Never doing this before, and not being able to find a definitive source for the process of marking the rivet schedule, I took what I thought was the obvious approach and found that it was the wrong way. I wound up with really weird (vertical) rivet lines up the hull and actually had to pull a few when I was bending ribs in. A tough lesson to learn.
Anyway, she's gonna be the tender for my Victoria 18 and I'm satisfied with her. A few more photos here.
http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4291065527
Have a good weekend.
Cedarhill Boatworks
03-07-2003, 10:16 AM
That is one goddam pretty little boat!
She's PERTY!! :eek:
How are you going to finish her? Bright?
Lulworth
03-07-2003, 01:54 PM
Chad,
Nice work on both the pram and the acorn. Sorry to hijack this thread but I notice in your acorn album that the floors appear to be one piece (not laminated) with a flat top surface. True? In the laminated case the floors follow the curve of the bilge but yours don't seem to. Are you happy with this? I hate the idea of laminating the floors on my acorn so I was thinking of steam bending them instead. Care to comment?
David.
redonebyme
03-09-2003, 05:56 PM
nice boat, sweet lines on that little pram!
Paul Scheuer
03-09-2003, 07:04 PM
Looks good. Nice photo record. What was the rivet schedule problem ? Forward ribs ?
Very, very nice!
Forgive my ignorance, but who is the designer ? Iain Oughtred ? Plans from ?
Lion
On Vacation
03-09-2003, 08:13 PM
Chadd, nice job. Thats way too good for me. Are you taking the boat to Georgetown? And when are we going fishing? I will have the new one done and will be there if the country is in stable condition.
videoguy
03-09-2003, 09:27 PM
Looken good smile.gif smile.gif .....Phil
Chadd Hamilton
03-10-2003, 11:55 AM
Thanks alot guys, it's certainly been a learning experience and I've enjoyed it.
David, the burden boards on the Acorn are bent in concave to match the floor of the boat. I used Cheap 1/4" X 3" cedar wall paneling from Lowes screwed to the floor frames and it held up really good last summer.
Paul, my aproach to lining off the rivets was to first make all the rivet marks on the garboard plank. Then as I proceeded to plank, I took a flexible batten and bent it over the hull and again made my marks for the next plankset. As the boat took shape, it became difficult to get a fair line with the batten. With 9 planks per side, it just got worse with each new one *especially* towards the bow.
Lion, yes, this is an Oughtred design.
Mike- I'll bring her up to Georgetown this year and hope you'll be able to make it too. Hopefully, we can get togther for the Southeastern Beer Drinker's Spring event.
Harry Miller
03-13-2003, 11:07 AM
Hello Chadd,
I've really enjoyed your posts and albums as I am just starting to build Paul Gartside's 7 foot clinker pram Gartside Boats (http://www.gartsideboats.com/catrow.php#7clink) My previous experience has been a Glenn L sailing pram (plastic resin glue and leaky cb case but still OK after 14 yrs) and a S&G sea kayak which the rest of my family loves but which I can't get out of without getting wet.
Immediately upon receiving the plans I threw my back out (My physio wife Mary loves my precise medical terminology) and have started to loft the boat half size 'cause a half sheet of ply is all I can lift at present. I thought I was doing this just for lofting practice but on looking at your "baby tender" I am now thinking why not?
My kids are too old and so is my two year old grandson but I expect there will be more.
I'd appreciate any advice on this project:
Should I halve the plank thickness?
If so can I still build it in the traditional way or should I glue the laps?
I'm sure to have many more questions and thank everyone in advance for their indulgence. smile.gif
Harry
[ 04-17-2003, 09:56 AM: Message edited by: Harry Miller ]
Harry Miller
03-16-2003, 01:33 PM
Just bringing this to the top again to see if I can elicit a comment or two: smile.gif
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