I'm building a boat to a design by Paul Fisher of Selway Fisher Design in the UK. The design is called "Able" and her vital statistics are: overall length 4.88m (16ft), beam 2m (6ft 6in) and design weight is 360kg (790lbs). You can read more about this design at http://www.selway-fisher.com/OtherDB.htm#KANE.

I intend to procede more slowly with this boat than I did with either of my other boat building projects (see links below on the right). This is, after all, a hobby and there are other things to do. So, updates to this blog might happen once every week or two. Come back and see.

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Friday, 12 April 2013

Foredeck Beams and Bowsprit

I have been cleaning up the beams that support the foredeck and gluing them in place. As this progresses it becomes harder to do anything in the space below the beams. I put epoxy fillets along all the plank seams and added the gussets to support the base of the samson post before fixing the beams. Here is a photo


There are still two fore and aft beams to add where the notches can be seen.

While working on these beams I have been thinking about the bowsprit. Today I made one up according to the plans, here it is.




I'm not sure that I like the way it is attached although I think it will work OK. An alternative approach would be to cut off the top of the stem and fit a longer bowsprit through a fixture on the stem head with the aft end of the bowsprit held in a block on the foredeck. Taking the bowsprit back as far as the samson post would need the samson post to be higher and this would look really strange. I will leave the bowsprit shown above in place and keep thinking about it.
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