{"id":164,"date":"2011-12-15T22:42:07","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T22:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kudzupatch.com\/blog\/?p=164"},"modified":"2011-12-30T13:56:16","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T13:56:16","slug":"day-12-finished-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kudzupatch.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/15\/day-12-finished-for-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 12 Finished (for now)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Still not had a chance to go the water but I wanted to wrap this up and show you the finished boat.\u00a0 This is going to be rather long post, but I have a bit of surprise to tell you about.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>All the rigging is done, the back band installed. Nothing left to do. I kept track of the hours and I was very surprised that I came in just under 60 hours.\u00a0 That doesn’t include the coaming though. There is probably 6-8 hours in a coaming, but those hours are spread over several days work.<\/p>\n

This photo (below) is Shad sitting on the scales! I was surprised by this. 31 pounds on the nose.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Now for some photos of the rigging. I like to keep this simple. I don’t carry much with me so I don’t need much on the deck.\u00a0 I did realize when I was taking these that I don’t have a forward loop to stow a paddle\u00a0 under so I will need to make a change for that.<\/p>\n

\"\"\"\"<\/a>Now, for the surprise.\u00a0 As I said from the beginning, this is a prototype boat. Building prototypes give me a chance to find any problems and make any changes before I release the plans. This boat has some problems and I have decided to change it\u00a0 so it is not going to water any time soon.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>If you look really close notice how the curve of the sheer line changes. Up to the arrow it has a nice up-sweeping angle and just about the arrow it starts to flatten out. Look at this image and you will see how it is supposed to look\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The sheer should curve upwards all the way to the ends. Instead, it starts to flatten out on both ends of the boat. I had problems putting the frame together but I convinced myself it was OK. I had to force the boat into shape and thought it\u00a0 would look fine once it was skinned. Well it didn’t and the boat has started to ‘hog’ a little. Meaning the ends are lower than the middle, just a little but it doesn’t look like the drawing and I am certain it is not going to paddle like I want either. I don’t have to go to the water to test it, I know I am not going to like it.<\/p>\n

I read about people pre-bending the stringers before assembling to prevent this problem. Seems to be an issue certain boats from another designer.\u00a0 I have never had faith in this method, it just asking for the boat to distort because wood will often try go back to its original shape.<\/p>\n

I have been looking at a way to solve this for a while now. I have been toying with an idea and this boat has shown me I was on the right track and I know why it did what it did. BEst of all I know how to fix it.<\/p>\n

The fix will require ripping the skin off the boat and replacing some of the existing frames But that is why I will not release a new design without building it first. I want to find any problems and fix them now.\u00a0 You don’t want to build a bad boat and I don’t want a reputation for designing bad boats.<\/p>\n

So Shad is finished but Shad is going to be taken apart too. I may wait till after Christmas but I will document it all till she is on the water and I am happy with it.<\/p>\n

Jeff<\/p>\n

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Still not had a chance to go the water but I wanted to wrap this up and show you the finished boat.\u00a0 This is going to be rather long post, but I have a bit of surprise to tell you … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boat_building","category-shad","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kudzupatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kudzupatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kudzupatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kudzupatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kudzupatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kudzupatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222,"href":"https:\/\/www.kudzupatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kudzupatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kudzupatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kudzupatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}