vas
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No, it's not mine!
reporting for a good friend Dimitris, with a Broom36 on the hard for the last 6yrs (and possibly on sale) and a P45 in action.
Dimitris is an engineer, also a hands on person and due to lack of construction work atm down here, with lots of time to spare. So he decided to go ahead and built a brand new 4.5m planning hull open boat from some drawings bought (iirc 150euro or so) from a naval architect in Athens) Model is Τοξοτης (archer in English) and this guy has over a dozen different designs on his website: https://sites.google.com/site/greekboatplans/designs/speedboats
Dimitris wants to built the normal (non-cuddy) version.
Anyway, he also happens to be a v.good carpenter (professionally, not an amateur like myself) and with a fully equipped workshop. So got the plans, got the right timber, cut the frames, keel et al, and on Sat I spent a good 6h helping him put the frames and keep together. Some jobs are not really one man and anyway it was really exciting working and seeing the frame of the boat come up in front of your eyes. Looks like next week he'll be ready with all frames mounted and epoxied in place and I can go and give him a hand in adding the 8mm ply skin.
A few photos follow and a couple of Q after that
And now for the Qs:
Is there any reasonable/achievable way of vacum bagging a veneer to the ply hull in order to do a nice lacquering and forget about filling/sanding/filling/sanding/priming/painting? Alekos will do the painting if we go this route, but a lacquered finish would look v.cool (and cover all the tapered screwheads that will be used to secure the ply skin to the frames). I can get decent good quality veneers in Athens at reasonable prices.
I think I can get a decent and strong vacum pump thing, how is the rest of the setup organised? Does it need custom expensive bits, or is it fairly straight forward?
This question can double on my aft deck and other areas teak epoxying on the ply in MiToS, so if we manage a decent and cheap setup, we can use it on both Toxotis and MiToS
Since I really like the idea of a cool timber tender, was thinking if there's anything at around 3-3.4m with space for 4 and v.light (probably with visible frames et al. Have seen a few on a quick google search, but nothing good looking at that size, any pointers? Not for this year, but maybe next. I do have a 10hp mariner (iirc) so would probably fly if it's light enough
Over the next couple of months i'll try and follow the progress of work and report here.
cheers
V.
reporting for a good friend Dimitris, with a Broom36 on the hard for the last 6yrs (and possibly on sale) and a P45 in action.
Dimitris is an engineer, also a hands on person and due to lack of construction work atm down here, with lots of time to spare. So he decided to go ahead and built a brand new 4.5m planning hull open boat from some drawings bought (iirc 150euro or so) from a naval architect in Athens) Model is Τοξοτης (archer in English) and this guy has over a dozen different designs on his website: https://sites.google.com/site/greekboatplans/designs/speedboats
Dimitris wants to built the normal (non-cuddy) version.
Anyway, he also happens to be a v.good carpenter (professionally, not an amateur like myself) and with a fully equipped workshop. So got the plans, got the right timber, cut the frames, keel et al, and on Sat I spent a good 6h helping him put the frames and keep together. Some jobs are not really one man and anyway it was really exciting working and seeing the frame of the boat come up in front of your eyes. Looks like next week he'll be ready with all frames mounted and epoxied in place and I can go and give him a hand in adding the 8mm ply skin.
A few photos follow and a couple of Q after that
And now for the Qs:
Is there any reasonable/achievable way of vacum bagging a veneer to the ply hull in order to do a nice lacquering and forget about filling/sanding/filling/sanding/priming/painting? Alekos will do the painting if we go this route, but a lacquered finish would look v.cool (and cover all the tapered screwheads that will be used to secure the ply skin to the frames). I can get decent good quality veneers in Athens at reasonable prices.
I think I can get a decent and strong vacum pump thing, how is the rest of the setup organised? Does it need custom expensive bits, or is it fairly straight forward?
This question can double on my aft deck and other areas teak epoxying on the ply in MiToS, so if we manage a decent and cheap setup, we can use it on both Toxotis and MiToS
Since I really like the idea of a cool timber tender, was thinking if there's anything at around 3-3.4m with space for 4 and v.light (probably with visible frames et al. Have seen a few on a quick google search, but nothing good looking at that size, any pointers? Not for this year, but maybe next. I do have a 10hp mariner (iirc) so would probably fly if it's light enough
Over the next couple of months i'll try and follow the progress of work and report here.
cheers
V.
