Designing for Dinghies, Ep. 8: The Sheer Strakes
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- In this video, I continue building my glue laminate lapstrake/clinker construction 14' Aber sailing dinghy designed by François Vivier. This time I’ll be attaching the sheer strakes! I’m building a small sailboat as a test platform for the design and development of products and equipment for dinghy camp cruising. These videos are intended to document what building a small sailing dinghy is like.
Great videos, looking forward to the next installment!
I Love your videos, as i am planing to build a Vivier Boat myself, it helps a lot to see how it maybe could be done and what better not to do ;) so thank you very much to share youre experience with us all !
Good luck with your build! I'm glad these videos have been helpful - yes there's definitely some things I will do differently should I make another boat like this :-)
Great videos except that my wife makes me mute the music. 3 random observations: 1. Your strongback seems quite flimsy. I’d beef it up, making it easier to put muscle into planing etc without the danger of shifting the moulds. 2. Not sure if you do, but keeping your plane blade honed and very sharp makes planing much easier - spend more time sharpening and less effort planing. 3. I’d wipe off excess epoxy before it sets off - makes sanding/ planing much easier. Keep up the good work😄
Great video thank you! I appreciate the in depth commentary you are giving as you go - very useful!
Hi Dave, Glad these are helpful!
I'm another who has just subscribed and watched the whole sequence of videos through, as I am contemplating my first boat build. It will be using the glued ply clinker technique you are using. I hope you are going to complete the series of videos....but it's been a while, so I'm a little worried you've given up.
Don't worry, I've not given up! Just got bogged down a bit with other life things. Hopefully I'll be able to post more soon.
I've watched all your videos, and I appreciate the commentary. The drawings also help a lot. I'm guessing you're some type of way draftsman. Anyway, the boat looks great, and I'm looking forward to your next video.
Thank you Sir
Thanks! Just working away as quick as I can. Glad the video is helpful. Yes, I'm a designer and spend a lot of time drawing.
I binge-watched from the beginning to the present and thoroughly enjoyed your build so far. I subscribed so that I can follow this build along to the end. One observation though from an armchair critic, is that a boat build like that using modern methods would be very difficult to repair. You're going to end up with a great dinghy.
Glad you have enjoyed the build so far. Yes, a glue lam boat will be very difficult to repair (at least in the same way planked boats are) - a trade off for perhaps a simpler and lighter construction method. Maybe some day, after this experience I'll feel skilled enough to build a boat in the traditional method. Less epoxy involved in a build process would be very welcome at this point!
Yay! Loved this! I am so excited to see the end result, I am sure it will be beautiful!
Hoping you're still making progress on the Aber? I just binge watched all your videos and it's given me confidence to tackle a Morbic in the future. Hope you're able to post more!
Nice to watch. Thanks for posting.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great to see this vid today. I was wondering how you were getting on the other day; now I know. Fantastic progress, she is looking nice, loved the oak sheer strakes and how well they went on. Regarding the clamps: I have seen a lot of trad building and they have a few different clamp designs they have obviously made themselves, ranging from very simple U shapes with a wedge to ones that pivot with a bolt at the back to compress the front end. From memory, Off Centre Harbour use some of these. I'm sure you will find other vids coming up on the YT side bar with a few ideas. Knocking up a few in your spare time would be a lot cheaper than buying them. That is what I intend to do. Looking forward to the next up dat, happy new year, keep well from the UK.
Thanks Dale! Things have been busy, but it is good to finally post another video. The real trick is the 'spare time' part ;-) Better clamps would be such an improvement. Hope all is well with you in the UK!
@@designingfordinghies5427 All well here thanks. We are still in lockdown, so some spare time is available, lol.
I wonder whatever happened with your Aber build. I really enjoyed them and love this boat. Did you finish her?
Hello Designing for Dinghies, really great video. The varnishing in this video is super satisfying, when will the launch and test of this dinghy be? I have recently started repairing/building boats with my first video being released today, you're more than welcome to have a look, possibly suggest how I could improve things? Thanks Tom
Thanks Tom, Progress on my dinghy is happening, but I've been slow on posting videos due to other pesky distractions (like work). That's all to say the launch may still be a way off. Good luck with repairing your dingy. That looks like fun.
nice music too!
Sources of plans? For
I got my plans from www.vivierboats.com/en/ but there are many good sources. Wooden Boat put out many good books with titles like "50 Wooden Boats" etc. There's also www.oughtredboats.com/