Bulk head and fore deck

The last things we were able to get done was the bulkhead and the foredeck.  The Bulkhead is a piece of wood that goes plumb down at a certain part of the boat.  The bulkhead serves as a structural part of a boat, its also put in to hold up the foredeck.  It also has a hatch cut out of it to store things.  The foredeck is a piece of ply that goes over the top of the bulkhead and in conjunction with the bulkhead it creates a cockpit at the front of the boat, thats where you hold things like your anchor or bale or any other things you may like to cover.  Under the foredeck there is a fore and aft still plnk of wood so that if anyone needs to stand on top of the foredeck its isn't as easy to break.

 

Transom, Skegs and Thwarts

The transom was beveled and a jig was designed to hold the trasom on its 10 degree angle and then we bevel the transom and glue it into place.  The skegs are deep planks of wood that go for and aft, the purpose for this is to keep the boat much more stable when the boat is in the water, there are two large skegs on the far outer sides of the bottom and one small on in the centre up forward.  Thwarts is the boating term of seats, the thwarts are made up of yellow cedar and 6 small strips of western red cedar.  There are three thwarts and the are all thin strips of wood all cut at different lengths.  Then the wood is all glued together but the longer ones were at the front and then in betweent the long ones a 3 short ones and the small ones are lined up outsides of the long ones and then one more lined up in the centre creating two holes in the thwarts every second strip of wood.

Bottom, strake and garboard.

We fit and cut the bottom over the top of the frames and using the stem to hold the bottom in place.  When the bottom is attached then it would get beveled so that when the strake comes to getting put down it layes right over the bottom nicely.  We got the bevel marks by using a tenon saw, we would go to the stations and cut the slot into the bottom but when cutting you would follow the the strake line so that makes a nice fit. The strake is one of the board thats on the side of the boat and it is the board closest to the bottom of the dory.  We measured the strake by sticking a spilling plant on.  We made a measurement down from the top of the spilling plant and created a made up measurement, we will say 100mm, so we went down 100mm from the edge of the plank and ,easured to where the strake needed to go to, then we would write on the plank the measurement and do that for every station.  Once finished we would take the spilling plank to our sheet of ply wood the measure from that 100mm mark up what the measurement we took down was.  When the strake is down we would bevel that also and apply the same technique as the strake.

 

 

 

Team work

Our team is called the hory dory (my awesome name) and that team consists of Deon, Greg, Chris, Ben and myself.  I believe that we have a very stong team, we work together very well and don't have any problem working with each other and listening to others point of veiws.

Drawing/cutting transom, cutting bottom and scarfing.

The bottom and the transom were marked and cut out of one sheet of ply wood.  The ply wood is too short to get the whole bottom out of the piece of ply so then we would have to cut thebottom into two part and have to scarf them together afterwards.  A scarf is where you take a part of wood and measure back at a ratio of 10:1 so in this case we measured back 120mm, from that 120mm mark we would draw another line on a angle down to the opposite corner, then do the same thing but on the opposite side to the last then cut/plane it of.  Now you have a usable surface to glue the two pieces of ply together.  Before you can scarf them together you need to soak the ply in resin, this is so that when you put the two scarf areas tofether with epoxy, the epoxy won't soak into the wood.  When finish, take them and clean them up, plane of the resin and sand it all fair.

Small Craft Build: Frame setup, beveling frames and stem

For the small craft build we build a 3.5m dory, a dory that i have the benefit of owning.

We started out the build by seting up the frames on a big building base that was fastened to the floor so that when we were working on the boat it wouldn't move and be annoying.  There were 7 frames all together and they had to be setup correctly, level and correct distance apart.  To achieve level frames we started with the setting up of the very first frame and worked our way from there, the first frame was set up by measuring out so that we have it in a good position and then marking where it will go and getting a spirit leve to get the frame plumb.  From there we were able to get up the other frames level and the right distance.

After getting all the frames up we had to bevel the frames.  The reason for beveling the frames is that when you are bending wood around a frames, the frame is square, but the wood that gets bent around is not, it has a shape to it so we had to make sure that the frames have that shape or the ply wood would have dents or dings in it.

The stem was the first part of the boat that we made, the stem is a bit of wood that takes the shape of the forward part of the boat and heaps hold the strake and garboard of the boat.  To make the stem we made up a jig so that when we have the wood ready we could use it to hold the wood.  To get the shape of the stem we took a print out of the stem from the autocad file and built the jig around the print out.  There were  6 or 7 plants of wood, the wood was placed into the steaming pipes and the were steamed.  The planks were steamed because the stem has to take on a compicated shape and steaming the wood heaps it bend much more easier and when the wood cools down it holds most of its shape.  When the wood has cooled down and has held its shape a bit more then we would apply some epoxy to the wood and glue it all up.

 

 

 

Attributes of a Good Team

Learning Outcome

-Communication
-Support each other
-Give and recieve constructive criticism
-Reliability
-Schedualing
-Personal accountablity
-Have fun as a person/individual
-Feed off each others knowledge
-HAVE FUN AS A GROUP