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Because the word carvel has more than one syllable, it is 'shortened' to 'plank on frame' in some dialects. The frames are steamed to the battens, and then the battens are removed as the planks go on. but I'm trying to keep it simple so it's clear. many variations, but that's just the basic, OK? For all others who want to pick nits. then the planks are bent overlapping each other, then the molds get pulled as the frames are steamed in. just because we all are pretty clear on that. This is difficult for me to explain without some good pictures, but try and stay with me and I'll do the best I can. The advantage, in addition to your valuable experience, with living up north is a familarity with these boats, which we here in the deep South do not have much of. Anyway, I'm seeing valuable MMD's advice on that particular design also. I don't think I want to deal with caulked seams. I am unclear on how trailered boats do not separate at the seams, or if they do, and from my readings through the archive, unclear about the use of epoxy to stabilize them to prevent it. Or I'm looking hard at Edwin Monk's 'Tern', a 1930s era 18' runabout planked in 1/2 inch mahogany. I may end up right back where I started from, with a cold-molded new design. My first three boats have been sheet plywood, and I'm wondering if maybe I need to take a step the other way now. The more I consider cold-molded, the more I don't know if I am getting farther away from what I love about wooden boats. I'm going to do that runabout, inboard powered. Yes, I'm interviewing candidates for my next project. From the look of how busy his shop is(someone posted a link recently, and he's going great guns from the look of things), it may be hard to get ahold of him.īest of luck Roger. He, by the way, is an interesting restorer who would be worth contacting about such questions. Dannenberg were still lurking he'd come in and set us straight. I don't know the details of precisely how they do this now, but when I was active and looking at such things they rebuilt the basically same double-planked configuration of the original, and glued the bejesus out of it. This makes a restored boat able to live on a trailer quite nicely. Restorers, for the most part, have turned to cold molding new bottoms.

They were often used as day boats, and stored in hoists or boat houses when not out running about, and the method worked pretty well. The bottoms of the 'classic' runabouts were ususally double-planked, with a layer of cotton cloth and varnish or shellac between. Definitions have become kinda fuzzy, but solid planking fastened to the frame with mechanical fasteners is what it means to me.

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#Classic runabout boat clipart free#

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