Building the Celerity

jprice · **Posted:** Thu Nov 03, 2011 4:21 pm

Stem, breasthook, transom knee...

At this point, I'm pretty much done with the full size plans.
Pretty soon will be time for the form, and getting something boat shaped in the garage.

jprice · **Posted:** Mon Nov 21, 2011 5:59 pm

Form finally done!

(not exciting, I know)

Took quite a bit of work to get the whole thing level, plumb, and square. (the 10 1/2 foot stringers weren't perfectly straight, so took some work to coax them into place.)

Shouldn't be long now before I have something somewhat boat-shaped sitting in the garage.

DanaOverall · **Joined:** Wed Jan 06, 2010 7:55 am **Posts:** 58

jprice wrote:

Form finally done!

(not exciting, I know)

Shouldn't be long now before I have something somewhat boat-shaped sitting in the garage.

I'm only a month or so ahead of you and yes, it is exciting. Oh, just wait until you hang some frames.....you'll step back and see her in the water...in your mind

Like I always did on my airplane builds, do something every day, even if it just think about the upcoming steps.

darthplywood · **Posted:** Tue Nov 22, 2011 10:46 am

very nice! that is one of the many little victorious acheivments you will have throughout the build!

Iggy · **Posted:** Tue Nov 22, 2011 11:55 am

Congrats! And it doesn't get any less exciting as you go along and hit new milestones.

I got a big, fat, sh*t-eater grin after putting on my boat's name graphics on her transom this weekend.

Every step brings your vision closer to reality. Not many things more rewarding in life than that feeling.

jprice · **Posted:** Wed Nov 23, 2011 4:24 pm

Starting to take shape!

Only frame #3 and the stem are permanently attached at this point. But it's nice to see it start to have a shape.
Plus I was really happy to see that things are lining up and leveling out nicely. I had some question marks in my head when just looking at the individual pieces, but they're all falling right into place (so far).

DanaOverall · **Joined:** Wed Jan 06, 2010 7:55 am **Posts:** 58

As you said on your boatbuilding link.......Woo Hoo!!

jprice · **Posted:** Thu Dec 01, 2011 3:39 pm

Got the keel on.

Only the inner layer is glued/screwed in place. I haven't been able to glue anything for the past few days due to this sudden cold spell.

Waiting for it to warm up, or for the portable heater I ordered to arrive.

In the meantime, I ripped up all the battens and chines. I had forgotten how much 'fun' it can be to rip 16 foot boards.

Of course, my math was a little off when ordering, and I'm 1 board short(for the sheers). doh!

jprice · **Posted:** Thu Dec 01, 2011 5:39 pm

Put the chines in place, just to see how they'd look/fit.
Decided they were way too stiff as is.
Knowing how easily white oak can take to steam bending, I took the opportunity to "steam bend" them in place.

I know, technically, that's not steam bending, but I figured the towels in boiling water method was close enough.

darthplywood · **Posted:** Fri Dec 02, 2011 6:24 am

wow! its looking really good!

jprice · **Posted:** Wed Dec 07, 2011 6:22 pm

Chines after "steaming":

Not perfect, but definitely help make the bending easier.

Then I used somewhat of a Rube Goldberg to get the chine into place for cutting:

Consisted of the bar-clamp "trick" to get leverage on the chine, and then a 25 pound weight on the bar. The weight could be slid back and forth to get just the right amount of twist, and then locked into place with small spring clamps. Then I used a band clamp to pull the chine up and into position.
Worked pretty darn well...

jprice · **Posted:** Mon Jan 02, 2012 9:25 am

Well, now that the holiday madness has past, I've finally been able to get back to it.

Got the chines and first layer of the sheers installed.
I also installed some chine blocking and some small gussets where the chines meet frame #3. Maybe overkill, but there seemed to be so much stress in the chines up front, that I wanted some extra reinforcement.

Chines:

Sheers:

Blocking/gussets:

upspirate · **Posted:** Mon Jan 02, 2012 10:26 am

Looks great....nice lines

jprice · **Posted:** Thu Jan 05, 2012 3:11 pm

So I'm all ready to laminate the sheer with the second layer.
I was planning on doing both sides at the same time... until I realized that just one side was going to use a majority of my clamps. :shock:

darthplywood · **Posted:** Thu Jan 05, 2012 8:50 pm

this is looking really great! Nice work.

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