These are a couple weeks old, we are laying the stringers on the forms the last week of January.
6/3/21
Boatbuilding classes launch their canoes in the campus pond.
In the final days before graduation, we walked the canoes down to the pond for an informal 'christening'.
5/29/21
5/14/21
4/14/21
April 14th
A lot accomplished in a couple weeks: The boat furthest along has both thwarts in and is ready for rub-rail fabrication. Most front thwarts have some sort of custom engraving, and will be installed soon.
There are some small details: floorboards, and seats to deal with, but the frames are nearly ready for varnishing.
And in the back room:
The stitch-and-glue dinghy is coming along.
The seams are being filled and shaped, and then the fibreglass will cover the bottom 'plannk'.
4/1/21
Design Development-how I spent my Spring Break
This one has stems with more curve, and a beefed-up gunwale. The front thwart is more basic, being just a straight bar. I also tweaked the width of the boat at the thwarts so that the bow is a bit narrower than the stern, to see what effect that will have on tracking.
3/7/21
Progress Report as students leave for March Break
In the past few years, blog posts have gotten repetitive, as we make the same boats every year, but I though it now has been long enough that I might revisit an overview of the process. These photos give a brief review of the steps we've covered since December, For some of this, Covid kept the students online, and I did some fabrication of parts, but students were back in the shop in January, and we've made very good progress.
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| Preparation: forms set up, with soaked gunwales laid on the forms to dry. |
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| In the meantime, stringers were cut and soaked, stems and and knees were roughed out and breasthooks fabricated. |
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| On their return to school, students installed the breasthooks. |
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| Wet stringers are temporarily tied onto the forms with twine. |
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| Cedar ribs are soaked and steamed to bend into the cage created by the stringers. |
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| From stringers temporarily tied to the forms, to rib-end glues to the gunwales. |
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| Stringer ends are trimmed and lashed to the stem and knee. |
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| Lashing all done, including 5 'half-ribs' amidships to help keep the bottom flat and improve initial stability. |
As we head off for spring break, we clamped the soak inwales to the outside of the gunwales to dry, so they will easily conform to the correct shape when dry. Upon our return, while studenets quarantine for a few days we will do some readings about boat perfomance, and then install the inwales and turn to fabrication and installation fo the thwarts.
3/5/21
2/15/21
New Flavor
The Passagemaker Dinghy. One we have not built before, though similar to the Eastport Pram, of which we’ve done two.
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