Hi all,
A quick intro - I admire wooden boats, I like to canoe, I live in a U.S. state surrounded by and full of navigable water, and I'm foolhardy enough to try something I don't possess the skills to do. After months of looking at boat plans and a few days of reading the epic BitingMidge thread, I ordered the plans and 2.5 sheets of Okoume to get a start during the Independence Day holiday. $300 including delivery.
The floor of my workspace is too rough to lay the ply on, so instead of marking out both sheets and fairing across them on the floor , I marked one sheet on sawhorses and faired the lines on it, hoping that fairing the lines on just one sheet won't introduce a strange curve at the join.
Through my mistaken use of overly fat panel nails, and evidently some imprecise measuring, I've introduced one to two mm variances between what my panels measure and what the plans say they should measure, and the pointy end of the bottom panel turned out five mm short of where it should be. I'm naively trusting that I can strong-arm the panels together during stitching despite the variances.
Being lazy and impatient to get cutting, I'm thinking of cutting the panels from the one marked sheet, using those to trace on the second sheet (skipping the marking out on that sheet), and after cutting those, clamping all like panels together (four each for side and bilge, two for the bottom) using the properly marked sheets on the outside of the panel sandwich for reference during final planing with an orbital sander.
Pardon that sentence, but am I headed for trouble with that approach? I've one day of holiday left, and would like to have the hull panels ready for butting by days end.
Thanks, and thanks to all the contributors to this forum!
A quick intro - I admire wooden boats, I like to canoe, I live in a U.S. state surrounded by and full of navigable water, and I'm foolhardy enough to try something I don't possess the skills to do. After months of looking at boat plans and a few days of reading the epic BitingMidge thread, I ordered the plans and 2.5 sheets of Okoume to get a start during the Independence Day holiday. $300 including delivery.
The floor of my workspace is too rough to lay the ply on, so instead of marking out both sheets and fairing across them on the floor , I marked one sheet on sawhorses and faired the lines on it, hoping that fairing the lines on just one sheet won't introduce a strange curve at the join.
Through my mistaken use of overly fat panel nails, and evidently some imprecise measuring, I've introduced one to two mm variances between what my panels measure and what the plans say they should measure, and the pointy end of the bottom panel turned out five mm short of where it should be. I'm naively trusting that I can strong-arm the panels together during stitching despite the variances.
Being lazy and impatient to get cutting, I'm thinking of cutting the panels from the one marked sheet, using those to trace on the second sheet (skipping the marking out on that sheet), and after cutting those, clamping all like panels together (four each for side and bilge, two for the bottom) using the properly marked sheets on the outside of the panel sandwich for reference during final planing with an orbital sander.
Pardon that sentence, but am I headed for trouble with that approach? I've one day of holiday left, and would like to have the hull panels ready for butting by days end.
Thanks, and thanks to all the contributors to this forum!
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