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Final Stitching
I finally finished stitching the hull together after taking about a week’s break. Several things on the setup before showing pictures of the process. The hull is currently held up by the stern and the center bulkhead. These in turn, are clamped to the strong back. They can easily hold the weight, but I was…
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Stitches and Plywood
I’ve talked about stitches, but it occurred to me that I’ve left out some details. Yesterday I talked about plywood twist and said I’d talk more about it later. So in this post, I’ll cover both of those topics. The “stitches” in “stitch-n-glue” boat construction are short pieces of copper wire. In a previous post,…
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Assembling the panels (part 1)
My last post ended with this picture showing the first panel attached to the bulkheads. I have two stitches attaching each panel to the stern (top and bottom of the panel), one attaching the panel to the center bulkhead (which will later be removed), and three attaching the bow. To hold this panel in place,…
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Assembly Setup
I’ve cut the panels, I’ve cut the stitches, now it’s time to get set up to assemble the hull. With some boat designs and construction methods, you start by building a “strong back” – a straight and stiff beam that is used to align the frames that determine the shape of the hull. The strong…
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The stitches in “Stitch and Glue” construction
AVS Hull is primarily for designing “stitch and glue” plywood boats. In this post, I’ll show you where the stitches come from. Here’s a picture of the first stitches I made in Anna’s Boat. The stitches are made by small pieces of copper wire twisted together (this is the bow of the top panel on…
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Cutting the Panels
In my last post, I explained transferring the offsets onto the plywood that would become the boat. Today’s post shows the cutting process. I have a bandsaw that I’ve used to cut panels for previous boats. This picture show the setup. You need a long work area. For an 11 foot long panel, you need…
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Transferring Offsets
This picture shows the layout of the panels I need to cut. In the last post, I showed how I prepared the long panels: 2 feet wide by 11 feet long (actually, two of them are 9.5 feet long and the other two are 10.5 feet long). Now I need to mark the designed onto…
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Scarf Joints
Plywood comes in 4×8 sheets. I needed 2×11 sheets. I ripped the sheets lengthwise into 2 foot wide panels, then cut two of the panels into shorter lengths. To join them, I used what’s known as a scarf joint. A bevel is cut on the end of each sheet, then the bevels are overlapped and…
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Anna’s Boat
This is the design of Anna’s Boat. The design was created using AVS Hull. The boat is a light weight rowboat suitable for two are three people. It is suitable for a car topper, or for tossing in the back of a pickup. I think the design looks good, but it is being built for…
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Initial Post
In this blog, I will chronicle my boat building activities as well as discuss updates and features of the AVS Hull plywood boat design software. This is my initial post just to make sure I can do this.
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