Tom Barb
Active member
I purchased this hull from another duckboats member last year and have not gotten around to doing anything with it. I guess I could thank Steve for his recent posts getting me to start this. Anyway, the boat had mo deck when I got it as the previous owner ripped the rotting deck off. The plan is to do something very similar to Steves rebuild with a few minor differences.
Hoisted off the trailer with my engine hoist.
laying out for cradles
I thought some of you might be interested in this "trick of the trade". As a carpenter, we have to make due a lot of the time with the tools we have on hand. when we need to make straight line rips at the jobsite without a table saw or festool track saw we make this jig for a circular saw. The piece of osb I had laying around for the cradles had two sloppy cut edges leftover from another project. I wanted a nice straight line for the cradle measurements. The jig is made by simply cutting a small rip off of a sheet making sure it has a factory cut on one side. The other side doesn't matter. cut another rip wide enough for the base of the saw and room on the other side of the top rip for clamps. Screw the small rip to the top clip. Then simply cut the edge of the bottom wide rip with the base riding on the factory edge. You can use this for nice straight lines on anything you can clamp to. Basically a poor mans track saw.
Stern cradle installed.
Layout for bow cradle.
Hull leveled.
Cross spalls installed.
King plank tacked and starting to layout bulkheads/decking.
More to come...
Hoisted off the trailer with my engine hoist.
laying out for cradles
I thought some of you might be interested in this "trick of the trade". As a carpenter, we have to make due a lot of the time with the tools we have on hand. when we need to make straight line rips at the jobsite without a table saw or festool track saw we make this jig for a circular saw. The piece of osb I had laying around for the cradles had two sloppy cut edges leftover from another project. I wanted a nice straight line for the cradle measurements. The jig is made by simply cutting a small rip off of a sheet making sure it has a factory cut on one side. The other side doesn't matter. cut another rip wide enough for the base of the saw and room on the other side of the top rip for clamps. Screw the small rip to the top clip. Then simply cut the edge of the bottom wide rip with the base riding on the factory edge. You can use this for nice straight lines on anything you can clamp to. Basically a poor mans track saw.
Stern cradle installed.
Layout for bow cradle.
Hull leveled.
Cross spalls installed.
King plank tacked and starting to layout bulkheads/decking.
More to come...
