{"id":877,"date":"2013-01-16T20:28:05","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T20:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kudzupatch.com\/blog\/?p=877"},"modified":"2013-01-16T20:40:49","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T20:40:49","slug":"converting-long-shot-part-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kudzupatch.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/16\/converting-long-shot-part-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Converting Long Shot * part four"},"content":{"rendered":"

I finished the bow and started lashing all the joints I had left loose. For some reason the stringer slot in this frame is deeper on the new design than on this one. If I lashed the joint it would pull the stringer out of line. If I had some wedge shape cutoffs from cutting scarfs lying around I could shim the slot to fit. But since I didn’t and\u00a0they are lashed to the near by frame I decided to just leave like this.<\/p>\n

\"jeffs-10\"<\/a><\/p>\n

While I am lashing I look down and realize I am being watched. Then I realize ‘I’ am not being watched, it’s the lashing that she is watching. She could care less about me, see the dangling sinew? She does.
\n\"jeffs-11\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I turn my back to cut another length of sinew and I hear wood banging around. I turn around to find\u00a0Grace\u00a0inspecting my lashing and knocking the floor stringers out of the boat. All this time she has shown no interest in the boat. Now she won’t stay away.\u00a0\"jeffs-12\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Despite all of Grace’s help I did manage to finish the frame. It is ready for to be oiled and skinned. Except I have some slightly different plans. I am going to order some red dye to color the frame. Then I will apply the oil finish over the dye.<\/p>\n

Somewhere I read that many\/most\/all Baidarka frames were red. So, I am going to dye it red.\u00a0I have always like the idea of the frame being a contrasting color but I have just never followed through on the idea. Maybe a black frame with a white skinned boat? Or a red frame with a ……. no, \u00a0you will have to wait to see what I have in mind for the paint job. It’s a surprise.
\n\"jeffs-13\"<\/a>I am going to try to do something to stiffen the frame too. As I have said, this frame was the prototype Long Shot and I made changes to the final design. One thing I was not happy with is that this frame has always been too flexible\u00a0 All Fuselage frames flex some, but this one was very\u00a0flexible.<\/p>\n

I have never said much publicly about this because the frame was redesigned before the plans were released. Since I know how rumors get started and people twist what you say, I just kept that to myself.<\/p>\n

Since it is apart, I want to try reinforcing this frame with Kevlar roving similar to what Plat did on his Geodesic boats and see if that will not stiffen it. If it works I could see it having applications on a fuselage frame race boat.<\/p>\n

If you are serious into racing you do not want any flex in the boats hull. While it is probably slight, the energy spent flexing the boat is energy not moving the boat forward. Probably very minimal but races are often won by very small amounts.<\/p>\n

I have to order supplies so it will be next week before I can do much else on the frame. So mean time I am going to try to get some work done on the Sea Skiff.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I finished the bow and started lashing all the joints I had left loose. For some reason the stringer slot in this frame is deeper on the new design than on this one. If I lashed the joint it would … 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":[3,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boat_building","category-rebuilding-long-shot"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kudzupatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","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=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.kudzupatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":888,"href":"https:\/\/www.kudzupatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions\/888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kudzupatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kudzupatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kudzupatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}