Subject: Re: [harryproa] Re: 15m schooner underway |
From: Rob Denney |
Date: 5/13/2013, 7:30 AM |
To: harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au |
Reply-to: harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au |
The savings of taping is good too.
though you still have fiddly parts to go.
I think people over engineer when doing a bit of amatuer designing at home.
Eg rudder, beam to hull joins.
Feels safer to add more.
Is this (FlashHarry) a schooner or single?
Doug
--- In harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au, Rob Denney <harryproa@...> wrote:
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> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Doug Haines <doha720@...> wrote:
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> > **
> >
> >
> > Hi Rob,
> >
> > Thanks for the update pics.
> > It looked like a thick piece of plywood in the first pic, but obviously
> > light brown coloured foam.
> > Pretty thick at 15mm?
> >
> It's a big boat, with some big spans, although most of them are reinforced
> with furniture etc, so 15mm.
>
> > How was the glassing done - one side under pressure then bend while other
> > side is wet?
> >
>
> For the hull bottom, yes. The rest was glassed both sides then vacuumed.
>
> >
> > This was the major attraction to going flat panel for me. No worries
> > bending to shape.
> >
> Agreed. The lee hull will be built with a flat bottom.
>
> > I know the straps can pinch in to make undulations - you obviously used
> > some aluminiukm beams to try and spread the load at the edges.
> >
> Yes, may have been better with holes through the topsides and pulled the
> shape from gunwh'l to gunwh'l rather than around the hull.
>
> > I think you had a solide glass bilge on the Sol.
> >
>
> Yes. Smaller diameter, but folded pretty easily.
>
> rob
>
> >
> > Doug
> > Perth
> >
> > --- In harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au, "proaharry" <harryproa@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Latest update now at www.harryproa.com.
> > >
> > > Made a couple of bulkheads yesterday on the small table. To speed things
> > up, we made them in a stack with a piece of peel ply between them. Laminate
> > looks good apart from a couple of bag creases on the table side. However,
> > we lost any time savings by spending all morning wedging them apart to
> > break the peel ply join. What a struggle! Perforated plastic next time.
> > >
> > > Installed the bulkheads this afternoon with some help from Jeff, the
> > scone king. Looks good. Next big step will be putting the saloon roof on.
> > In theory, not too difficult, but the sheer size of it will throw up some
> > interesting problems.
> > >
> > > rob
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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