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After finishing all my frames over the weekend, I quick fabed up a couple of forms just to visualize the required space, squaring up, leveling, etc. In doing so, I couldn't resist test cutting the front of a couple of treated 2 x 6s and hanging the frames....just to visualize a boat instead of a stack of frames All the comments I got had something to do with.....dang, that thing is going to be big !! Yes, I know some of the frames are not oriented correctly front to back but I can see motivational progress. Now time to actually finish the form, brace it a little better, anchor it to the floor, cut the actual mahogany motor stringers.....and make some permanent progress. More pics in a couple of weeks.

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Dana Overall
Richmond, KY
http://rvflying.tripod.com/

Wait til you flip here and then you will really see the size.

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Dave

My Riviera build - the Midnight Cry Project

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Few things in the world measure up to the thrill and satisfaction of boating in a boat that you built.

They really grow after the flip.

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John Amundsen
Monte Carlo
Winter Haven, FL

Maybe it will be done by G6 and maybe not.

Ok, time for a couple of weeks worth of work update. I ended up using ash for my motor stringers and mahogany for the keel. The hardwood shop had much truer pieces of 2 x 6 ash than they did mahogany.

In the second picture you can see all the tools I ended up using to square up the forms and get the stringers level fore, aft and across. A combination of laser line, digital level, dad's 50+ year old level (love using his old stuff!!), spinning laser level and of course the old fashion plum bob got everything, straight, square, level and vertical. Might as well incorporate a little bit of the new stuff with the old tried and true tools. Just don't have access to a CNC so I had to go with circular saw, jig saw and band saw for cutting, oh well

As of this picture about an hour ago, I have rough cut the chine and shear slots using some left over straight pieces of ash and mahogany. The only frame I have not yet rough cut for the shear is #8. I'm using a scrap piece of batten material (little under size for a chine) for locating my rough in cuts and a piece of ash for the shear piece for those cuts. I'll use the actual material to finalize my cuts.





No big real head scratchers, thanks partly to the C & C (chair and cooler) or in my case my old 5 gallon bucket I've built two airplanes with and a beer.

Probably not much updating to do for the next month as it will be filled with installing the chine, shear, cutting the batten slots, installing battons and fairing. Sounds like a month to me.

I will say, this boat build has been a lot of fun!! Little different than building airplanes but big time fun. My mind is running wild with customization ideas!!!

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Dana Overall
Richmond, KY
http://rvflying.tripod.com/

Looking mightly fine!

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Ian (aka Iggy)
My Malahini Build

Thanks Iggy. It is to the point where sometimes I go down to the garage (workshop), just to look at her

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Dana Overall
Richmond, KY
http://rvflying.tripod.com/

LOL I did the same thing tonight... spend a few minutes looking at my other lady in the garage while bringing out the garbage to the curb.

I am sure its a pretty common occurance!

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Ian (aka Iggy)
My Malahini Build

Looking great Dana! And just between us boatbuilders, I do the same thing. I just sit and stare, and currently I also rub my hands all over her as I am doing final sanding/fairing in some places and keep checking/rechecking for lumps and bumps (at least, that is my excuse and I am sticking to it).

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By the time I have built a boat, I'll be ready to build a boat....

OK, past the looking at it stage this morning and back to building

Got a question for you builders. I'm starting to visualize the fairing process while getting ready to cut the batten notches. I quote from the the plans, "The keel, as viewed in profile, is a straight line from the transom to about frame #4". Not a problem as shown from the laser line in this pic from frame 4 aft. These batten notches should be no problem at all using a router and jig at 90 degrees to each frame.



Reading just a little further, the plans say, "If battens are fitted in prior to fairing, they may also require fairing". In looking at your site Dave, and others, did you all rough fair your frames from 5 forward to more closely match shape of the forward section of the hull prior to cutting the batten notched on frames 5, 6, 7 and 8? Seems to me if I fair those frames to more closely match the faired chine, I would not be taking so much off the battens in those areas while final fairing. Am I under/over thinking this process

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Dana Overall
Richmond, KY
http://rvflying.tripod.com/

Dana-

Install your battens. When cutting your notches and fitting them, line up the flat outside face of the batten with the aft facing edge of your frame. This will cause the forward edge of your notch to be deeper but your batten will flow naturally. That little area on the forward edge of your frame that sticks up proud above your batten is what you will fair off.

It won't help you any to rough fair and further, you don't have anything to guide your fairing cuz the battens are not installed.

So just install the battens and go for it.

You will look back after you get done with some of these steps and wonder why you fretted so much over them.

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Dave

My Riviera build - the Midnight Cry Project

Video of Midnight in Action
Blog

Few things in the world measure up to the thrill and satisfaction of boating in a boat that you built.

Thanks Dave. Like I said, I was obviously over thinking this

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Dana Overall
Richmond, KY
http://rvflying.tripod.com/

Coming from engineering or airplane backgrounds can be an asset,or a liability sometimes!!!LOL

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Boat building can best be defined as an endless series of
tragedies obscured by the occasional miracle, followed by a good bottle of beer.

Don't Dream Your Life, Live Your Dream

Yep, I'm learning that , I'm used to working to less than a 1/10 of a degree in level or holes within a 1/1000 of each other, old habits are hard to break , not sure I can stick to those standards with my hand planer.....

Time to go make some shavings!!!!!!

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Dana Overall
Richmond, KY
http://rvflying.tripod.com/

Looking good - great minds must think alike. I just finished up my frames as well. I too could not resist hanging them on some 2x6s to see how they look.

Keep forging ahead - I am right behind you.

I couldn't wait long enough to set up 2x4's!!!!

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Boat building can best be defined as an endless series of
tragedies obscured by the occasional miracle, followed by a good bottle of beer.

Don't Dream Your Life, Live Your Dream