Boat Plans African Queen
A little more thought into the rudder today. Since Mr. Storer is concerned about the tiller splitting from the forces, he would like to see a thru-bolt through the tiller, into the spacer block. So I thought, how about a removable thru-bolt that could be tightened with a butterfly nut, or something like that? The adjusted illustration is below:
In other much more exciting news... I started shaping the mast!
This is awesome, because Id love to see my mast. Hmmm Hmmm mast. Powerhouse piece of lumber that gets me from A to B for free.
I am building the Hollow Square Mast option, of three that come with the boat (Solid Round, Birdsmouth are the other two).
First off, I must loft the dimensions of the narrow staves onto my lumber. One piece of lumber has a slight curve in it. I didnt think too much of it, and sawed 1cm off the edge of the lumber. Big mistake! The curve was more than I anticipated, and I didnt think I had the room to actually loft a narrow stave! I was seriously pissed, pounded my broom on the floor, and let out of primordial yell. A screwed piece of lumber means 25 bucks in the hole, a trip to the lumberyard, hoping to find a piece long enough, travel up north to the planer, using the planer, then back home. Its a process!
Mr. Storer has a fabulous option in his plans for curved pieces of lumber however, "The String Down the Middle" method. So, I marke the middle of each end and attached a string between them, and got this:
As you can probably tell, the string is way near the edge, too close to loft the mast using this as the backbone. I had to adjust the string to get me the most amount of wood:
Then, I lofted it on, hoping for the best... and it worked! I was just able to get it on with a little left over. It made for a strange visual illusion, with straight lines cutting every-so-slightly diagonally across the grain, but it worked well, and for that, I was happy. As you can see, the top of the mast is very close to the edge:
With the mast material propped up between two table extenders and my clamp table (50lb bag o seed keeps it from moving) I planned the staves down to the lines.
I then matched them up and got it as close as possible. Since were making a box here, its very important to keep things square, equal to each other, and the same size. This is a precision operation. Once the staves are glued in their ladder format, the wider boards can be glued right on, and then trimmed, making life a little easier on that front, at least. Sweet. Mast.
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