Recycled boat part 26

Today we put the boat in the water and it performed well.This is the boat with my son.

it has a good turn of speed for a small motor.We went a couple of miles up this creek on a cup full of fuel and motored up to this lizard basking on a log.

Must put some fuel in next time .

Recycled boat part 26

Today we put the boat in the water and it performed well.This is the boat with my son.

it has a good turn of speed for a small motor.We went a couple of miles up this creek on a cup full of fuel and motored up to this lizard basking on a log.

Must put some fuel in next time .

dory boat

Its been raining here and the humidity is about 80% so I decided to investigate building a dory in aluminum. So where do you start? The bottom , This is to be an sixteen footer and four feet at the bottom. Here is a good starting point to give good lines. Start with a sheet of ply or alloy 14' 8" x 48" get the middle and draw a line across the centre both ways, from front to back and side to side. Where the lines meet the edges of the sheet draw a line to shape the bottom. "Put on the pointy bits and make them the same".  You should have something like the bottom shape in the photo above.

Then the sides are made from a piece of ply or alloy cut from a sheet four feet wide and sixteen feet long sheet, cut the sheet in half length wise and here is the tricky bit. You have to measure the bottom sheet and find the exact measurement around the curved sheet.  This is the only precise measurement in the whole job. With this measurement mark it on the side sheet equal distance from both ends. "In the middle on the edge" Now from these points draw a line to the corner of the sheet and this will give you the shape of the bow and stern. Dry run the side to the bottom before you cut just to make shore they are the same length. Clamp the two side sheets together and cut and they will be the same mark the sheets bow and stern so they don't go on the wrong way round. They are now ready to assemble start by tying the stems together.  Now the sterns are tied together. The bottom is tied to one side at the bow and the the opposite side at the stern and work your way to the ends.  When this is done the sides are forced out and this puts rocker in the bottom, the further you force them apart the more rocker you will get this is up to you. The model has 3/4" packing in the centre to bend the bottom down and the sides go out at the same time.

dory boat

Its been raining here and the humidity is about 80% so I decided to investigate building a dory in aluminum. So where do you start? The bottom , This is to be an sixteen footer and four feet at the bottom. Here is a good starting point to give good lines. Start with a sheet of ply or alloy 14' 8" x 48" get the middle and draw a line across the centre both ways, from front to back and side to side. Where the lines meet the edges of the sheet draw a line to shape the bottom. "Put on the pointy bits and make them the same".  You should have something like the bottom shape in the photo above.

Then the sides are made from a piece of ply or alloy cut from a sheet four feet wide and sixteen feet long sheet, cut the sheet in half length wise and here is the tricky bit. You have to measure the bottom sheet and find the exact measurement around the curved sheet.  This is the only precise measurement in the whole job. With this measurement mark it on the side sheet equal distance from both ends. "In the middle on the edge" Now from these points draw a line to the corner of the sheet and this will give you the shape of the bow and stern. Dry run the side to the bottom before you cut just to make shore they are the same length. Clamp the two side sheets together and cut and they will be the same mark the sheets bow and stern so they don't go on the wrong way round. They are now ready to assemble start by tying the stems together.  Now the sterns are tied together. The bottom is tied to one side at the bow and the the opposite side at the stern and work your way to the ends.  When this is done the sides are forced out and this puts rocker in the bottom, the further you force them apart the more rocker you will get this is up to you. The model has 3/4" packing in the centre to bend the bottom down and the sides go out at the same time.

Diving

Some years ago I was given the job of removing this anchor from Belmore basin harbor in Wollongong

it was heat treated to stop the salt corroding it to a pile of rust and was painted in epoxy paint and given to the coast guard.

It ended up at hill sixty in Port Kembla. It came from one of two wrecks that sunk in the area. These wrecks are to be found in about 100 feet of water in the left of the bottom photo. I can not think of the names of the ships and this is from the earlier wreck.The other wreck might have been the Bombo which came to grief in the early 1900's.The first wreck was in the late1800's or early 1900's I know it had a girls name something like Jane or Alice but I'm guessing.

Diving

Some years ago I was given the job of removing this anchor from Belmore basin harbor in Wollongong

it was heat treated to stop the salt corroding it to a pile of rust and was painted in epoxy paint and given to the coast guard.

It ended up at hill sixty in Port Kembla. It came from one of two wrecks that sunk in the area. These wrecks are to be found in about 100 feet of water in the left of the bottom photo. I can not think of the names of the ships and this is from the earlier wreck.The other wreck might have been the Bombo which came to grief in the early 1900's.The first wreck was in the late1800's or early 1900's I know it had a girls name something like Jane or Alice but I'm guessing.

Recycled boat part 25

The boat is finally on the trailerI have to put some 1.5 x4 planks under the boat for it to sit on.

The winch had wire rope with all the hall marks of a prickly pear and I renewed with strapping should have done it earlier.The seats need to be put in and it will be finished but today into the Briney she goes.