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Donnie the boats are looking great. This is J.R. in Wilmington, the guy that cut your kit. I'm curious, how hard were the jigs to remove, were you able to salvage them or did you need to cut them up? Thanks
Mark once you get the flats hull are you going to keep a build thread going??????
Yes Gene, I will. Parrott, yer kicking arse, man! However, how the heck do you keep that shop so friggin clean?!?! This thread is getting me fired up...
CMP
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This spells it out as clearly as I have seen. Good read!
Beyond the reading, I can simulate the starting point of the boats by stretching the design, much as you did.
I am currently working on a spreadsheet that automates much of what you will read in the linked article. Would you like a copy of that sheet when I have it ready? I believe it would help you.
Regardless of the sophistication of your math or any spreadsheet I could produce, no calculations can make it perfect. Factors such as fuel burn throughout the day, environment - wind and wave conditions - etc., affect the trim. However, the goal is to keep weight and balance within the controllable range of the trim options available to the captain such as: motor trim, in the case of outboards / outdrives, trim tabs, and placement of people / cargo.
Let me know what we can do to help.
Oh and... you are just dry-fitting the floor grid - correct? You are going to glass the inside first?
Just dry fitting the floor. Will check out the article. Gene is pretty sure the tanks need to go in front of the console.
Im by far no expert but I think I would get the inside glassed before I dry-fitted the sole and stringers, you might end up dry fitting them twice!! Just my .02
Yes Gene, I will. Parrott, yer kicking arse, man! However, how the heck do you keep that shop so friggin clean?!?! This thread is getting me fired up...
CMP
Mark are you going to keep the flats hull in the Keys?
Are the plywood skin strip cut at uniform widths, or do they each have to be fitted (esp at the bow)?
What a great project (s), and look forward to seeing CMP get cracking as well.
You cut them all at a width that you feel that you can torture to fit and then they are scribed on one cut to fit the previous plank... sometimes like up at the bow.... each plank is scribed and cut to fit.
You have done a beautiful job on the boat thus far and I think you'll continue to do the same quality of work until she's done.....so take a sheet of paper, design yourself a beautiful console and build it! You'll enjoy the change of pace and when you're done.... YOU BUILT IT..... and it will be 1 of a kind. (now get your sketching pad out) And YES people will be looking at the console, they will be looking at EVERY single detail as soon as you tell them you built it.
Everyone will be looking at the console..... They will say "what a nice boat but what a turd of a console....Why in the hell did you do that? " Build what fits the boat. Don't cheap out and put some pre-made part in your boat... Especially the console that is the focal point of a "center-console" boat. What are you building? A yacht or a crab boat?
