Designing for Dinghies, Episode 1: Construction Frame
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 เม.ย. 2020
- In this video I begin building a clinker 14' Aber Dinghy designed by François Vivier. Once complete, I intend to use this dinghy as a test platform for the design and development of products and equipment for dinghy camp cruising.
Resources I used for finding a good dinghy:
www.vivierboats.com/
smallboatsmonthly.com
/ @rogerroving
www.offcenterharbor.com/
www.chase-small-craft.com/
/ @seanicky
Any one of these books by Wooden Boat Magazine:
www.amazon.com/Forty-Five-Woo...
Great video!
Tips:
- Request or use a compression bit to prevent fuzz on your wood. It has up-cut flutes on the bottom and downcut flutes on the top to create clean edges on both sides.
- Add dog bones to your inside corners (or mini-dog-bones) to avoid the inside radii on your cuts. A nice way is to just push the cut line out at 45 degrees so that the outside of the bit-diameter circle touches the original corner of the cut line (this method reduces the amount of extra material removed to achieve proper fit in inside corners). Another method is to push it out sideways by half the diameter of the bit (easier, but it removes more extra material).
- Use a trim router with a flush-cut bit to trim your hold-down tabs. This creates a cleaner, more accurate edge than a rasp or file.
So glad I found this video, I would love to build one of these dinghies
Hi Andrew, It has been a good challenge, and I'm sure when I finally finish it will have been well worth the effort. I hope you do build a dinghy some day if the time is right.
Marvelous!!!
Thanks!
Brilliant, nice attention to all the important details that surly make the difference for a well built dinghy. It's fun to see the full process. It's looking like a very fun to sail size boat too!!!
Many thanks!
Awesome! This is awesome love swing your process! Hope I can come visit your studio and help soon! -Sigi
Halfway through your first video I can only say, that I would have loved to have your video series when I built my clinker ply Stornoway 12. It took me 11 month to build (with no CNC) and first got in the water at the end of August. Even though I initially decided for another design, throughout the project I borrowed more and more from the Aber.
Hi Marcus, The Stornway is a beautiful design, that's so exciting. Sounds like you made really good time on your build. I'm still plodding away, my official job is taking up a lot of time at the moment. I'm hoping I can catch up on video editing over the winter break. TH-cam is being a bit strange, my attempts to reply to comments are not getting posted. Hopefully this works, and hopefully these videos will be of some help to future glue-lam dinghy builders.
Hi, pleased I found this vid so soon. I am in the early stages of building an Ilur by Francois. I previously restored a 13ft fibreglass boat, it was too cheap to pass up on and meant that I found out what I really wanted to build, whilst gaining some experience in building. I have the stem made and the station moulds cut out ( bought the full size acetate drawings due to lack of space for building and cutting at the same time ). Not put up a vid yet due to lock down like you and waiting for suppliers to re open to buy the Okuome etc. There is a French guy, Chantier La Vivacia, on YT who is building an Aber, but he has moved house and is putting up vids about that at the moment, he does have some build footage though. Roger Barnes has 2 vids on his lock down servicing on Avel Dro along with his boat camping vids. I look forward to following your series with interest. Keep on keeping on and keep well.
Hi Dale, Thanks for the interest. Sounds like you have a good project cut out for yourself. I'll try to post more videos as soon as I can. I was interested in building the Ilur, but settled on the Aber for simplicity sake based on my limited experience. Roger Barnes is the best. I'll check out La Vivacia.
Excellent project Trygve, good luck with the build! Chris 👍
Thanks so much Chris! I've definitely referred to many of your videos when fixing things on my bigger boat & very much appreciate all that you have posted on Sailing Britaly!
@@designingfordinghies5427 That's great to hear, thank you. I would love to do some dinghy cruising one day too. In fact I may do something in the next year or two - we'll see! Good luck with your build and your channel - you will meet wonderful people from every corner of the Earth thanks to it. Cheers, Chris 👍
@Sailing Britaly, I'll be following your adventures in boats big or small. :-)
All the best, Trygve
cool Projekt and cool choice of boat. But I have to say Mr Vivier designed a pretty expensive mould construction if you are only gonna built one boat. With CNC cut planking material you can probably get away with half the amount of station moulds. But thats just my opinion, have fun building ;)
hello great job. may ı ask for the cnc plans where did yu find it ı am planning to buy plans or book but ı wasnt sure if they have cnc plans
How do you get access to CNC cutting?
There's no magic way to find a CNC cutter shop, but the technology is pretty common now, so there's provably someone in your area who has a machine they may be willing to run a job like this on their machine. Shipping is expensive, as are pre-cut kits, but the quality on the kits can be great. I started my research by talking to Chase: www.chase-small-craft.com/vivier-boats
Did you pay for the parts to be cutout on the cbc machine , if so how much ?
Fortunately, since I had access to the equipment I didn't need to pay for the CNC cutting. Our machine is slower than many machines and it took us about two days to cut everything.
Yes, let's all buy these big machines to make our boats. What about those of us that don't have machines like this? Like, 98% of us.
It's true that I'm very lucky to have access to a CNC machine (I don't own one). There are lots of options for folks who don't. One is to build the same exact plan using the strip plank method described on Francois Vivier's website. The other is to transfer the clinker version plank patterns directly from his plans onto marine plywood and cut it using a hand held jigsaw. Or you can always hire a CNC shop to cut the CAD files for you. Lots of methods to choose from, and lots of things to consider depending on your budget, ability and time.
@@designingfordinghies5427 Ah, I didn't know the plans were so big. Thought maybe they were digital since you used the machine. But I guess they can be both. I'm thinking starting on my first boat (to learn) this summer. And do something bigger in the future.
Thanks for answering :)
@@SantianoBe Exciting! Good luck with your project. There are lots of great small boat designs and plans out there to work from. Some plans make it easier for beginners (like me) than others.
The only work here other than on the video is with a Rasp. Not a file. Just a Rasp. Oh and a sharp knife. The robot did the rest.
Re-title the video to watching a robot do most the work. Including programming how many working hours totally did it take from a skilled craftsman. ? the laboured explanation to make good a fitting had me screaming get a file you lazy so and so within seconds. Five minutes later still screaming "Lazy" was as entertaining as hoping predator would enter the building and fry it's victims Infront of camera.