I am so sorry, I missed this. You probably either called me or emailed me, however if anyone else is looking at this, then the knee is a structural element made to tie together two sections of the boat where stress occurs. typically either at the gunwales where they attach to the transom or where the bottom attaches to the transom. Always best to use a grain that goes in the direction you want your knee to go, however if that isn't possible you can laminate in multiple directions. If you're working on one of our boats the only ones to be partially concerned with are the freighter canoes where you will be putting motors on the transom. Take a look at the video and if there are questions, go ahead and give us a call. Enjoy the journey.
Hi. The transom knees are both structural and decorative. There are the knees at the gunwales which are shown in this video and the knee at the base of the transom. The actual knee design in your boat will depend on a couple of things. First and most important, if you are working on a boat like the one in this video as opposed to one of our freighter canoes which will have an engine hanging off the transom, the knee is less critical for the purpose of structure. That said, there is no reason to not take the steps to make sure that it still accomplishes that task as you never know what the future brings and a branch could fall off a tree or some other crazy thing. So what does all this mean to you. Use stock that does not have grain opposing the corner you are making. In fact, traditionally, knees were made from tree roots or branches which in general followed the shape you were trying to achieve. Other than that make them seamlessly connect to your gunwales in both shape and size for the purpose of aesthetics as well as the transom. Again, if you were asking our freighters I would talk a bunch more about strengthening them and thickness and the like, however on a pulling boat of this type none of that is necessary. To wrap it up, on this boat, make them decorative but do connect the gunwales to the transom with a beefy enough corner and one with suitable grain so that it will handle the odd stress that may occur. Hope that helps. You know how to get in touch if you need more help.
How do I pick up the shape of the knee. They don't show in my plans
I am so sorry, I missed this. You probably either called me or emailed me, however if anyone else is looking at this, then the knee is a structural element made to tie together two sections of the boat where stress occurs. typically either at the gunwales where they attach to the transom or where the bottom attaches to the transom. Always best to use a grain that goes in the direction you want your knee to go, however if that isn't possible you can laminate in multiple directions. If you're working on one of our boats the only ones to be partially concerned with are the freighter canoes where you will be putting motors on the transom. Take a look at the video and if there are questions, go ahead and give us a call. Enjoy the journey.
How do I get the transom knees from my paper lofing plans
Hi. The transom knees are both structural and decorative. There are the knees at the gunwales which are shown in this video and the knee at the base of the transom. The actual knee design in your boat will depend on a couple of things. First and most important, if you are working on a boat like the one in this video as opposed to one of our freighter canoes which will have an engine hanging off the transom, the knee is less critical for the purpose of structure.
That said, there is no reason to not take the steps to make sure that it still accomplishes that task as you never know what the future brings and a branch could fall off a tree or some other crazy thing.
So what does all this mean to you. Use stock that does not have grain opposing the corner you are making. In fact, traditionally, knees were made from tree roots or branches which in general followed the shape you were trying to achieve. Other than that make them seamlessly connect to your gunwales in both shape and size for the purpose of aesthetics as well as the transom.
Again, if you were asking our freighters I would talk a bunch more about strengthening them and thickness and the like, however on a pulling boat of this type none of that is necessary.
To wrap it up, on this boat, make them decorative but do connect the gunwales to the transom with a beefy enough corner and one with suitable grain so that it will handle the odd stress that may occur.
Hope that helps. You know how to get in touch if you need more help.
entertaining video! Made me laugh xD xD
Glad we could entertain.