Starting a Snow Goose

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Mark Albrecht

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Hi all-

I am a new member and have been watching the posts for a month or so.

GREAT news today - my scarfing attachment came. So now I think once I drill some holes in my saw base I can start a boat. I plan to start tomorrow.

Maybe there is a thread that addresses this but here goes. Any suggestions on stapling my scarfed joints. I need 2 sets of scarfed 3/8" (I am using Okoume sp?) and want to stack them with 4 mil plastic between them and weight them with sand bags. I have a 16 foot surface built with saw horses and 5/8 A/C plywood. Do I have to staple and how best can I do it and still pull the staples, while being able to stack my wood? Or is it bad to stack the wood?
 
By stapling you mean to hold them together while the epoxy cures? If so, forget about staples and use screws with backerboard. When scarfing my panels for my last boat, I laid out 2 x 6 every 2' scarfed my joints, laid down wax paper and laid down another set of panels. Once we had all the panels laid out and straight, I put another 2 x 6 on top of the scarf and ran long screws down through the top 2 by, through the plywood joints and into the bottom board. Held great. Remember you don't want to squeeze out all of the epoxy, just snug.

Good luck.
 
Congratulations.

I am starting a blog about my build... so maybe you can get some ideas, etc.

Anyway, here is a pic of how I scarfed. It's super easy... again, it's paint by the numbers as the many plys in the wood guide you along.

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I stapled mine with an Arrow tacker and ceiltile staples, they are 9/16" long. You can pull them easy when you unstack the scarfed panels.
 
carefull about documenting a boat build .......Thats all ERIC thought he was doing and look what that caused !!!
hehehe


good luck and keep us posted, there are very few questions about boat building that can't be answered here ( and the majority are right !! )
 
I woudl just use screws, they work well. Drill the holes a little big and put a backer on teh bottom and top and tighten.
 
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