Designing for Dinghies, Ep. 5: Starting the Planking!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ต.ค. 2024
- In this video, I continue construction of a clinker construction 14' Aber Sailing Dinghy designed by François Vivier. I’ll be attaching the garboard planks and beveling the planks. I’m building a small sailboat as a test platform for the design and development of products and equipment for dinghy camp cruising. These videos are intended to document what building a small sailing dinghy is like.
Nice to see the example for how the tape keeps epoxy from sticking too, thanks. Great video overall too...!
It is quite a job for one person to glue up a plank on their own, but good planning helps. It looked like you managed very well. I'm sure you will become an old hand at it very quickly. Good to see the planks going on. I really appreciate what you are doing and I know it will help with my build as soon as I am able to get the ply.
Yes Dale - good planning is key! And also practice makes each plank easier. Laying out the tools, clamps and screws as well as having two drills (one with the screwdriver bit, the other with the pilot hole) is really worth it. I'm glad you are finding these videos helpful.
@@designingfordinghies5427 Yes, I've been considering a second cordless drill for a while.....
Loving your videos - thank you for posting them. Would it be easier to roughly plane the planks before you glue them on?
Hi Dave,
It could be easier to do the rough planing if you have a really nice long work bench. Unfortunately, I'm not that lucky :-)
I went with this method, as thats what the instructions seemed to suggest. The 'rough plane' is very close to the final plane though, and this way you can figure out the edge bevel on each plank by holding a straight edge up to the plank's edge at each section of the construction mold. Fine tuning the bevel didn't take too long, and it was nice to be able to test fit the next plank by holding it up and curving it along the beveled plank that was just created.
Great video, Liked and Subscribed!
Cutting planking bevels can be easier on the boat because the frames or moulds can guide how much to roll the bevels, cutting gains on a bench is handy though. My planking bench is only 8 inches wide but 20' long, works great!
so it looks like your only fixing planks with Epoxy ? no Mechanical fixing ? totaly reliant on the glue in the ply
Yes, that's what the plans say to do. There are a few stainless screws in the keel, but they won't be adding any strength. When I get the frames in they will also be epoxied to the planks.