Hello All.
There are two building jobs to be done and we need two groups to do them. Both
are important and I will only be able to be involved in one of them. Job number
one is most pressing and must start asap.
1. Two sets of plywood boat stands need to be built.They will be copies of the
ones in the work shop.
The requirements are
four people
drill
jigsaw
saw
screw drivers
Two large pieces of cardboard to stencil templates from the existing stands
Graeme is getting plywood.
These need to be painted to weatherproof them.
Carpet for padding
Staple gun and or cable ties to fasten padding
2.Laminated Oar build
This is a bit experimental but the plans are good and we have enough wood to
fail, re-evaluate and succeed. We should manage success at the first attempt
though. I intend to make solid laminated oars using straight grained spruce
backed with ash for stiffness . The top and bottom surfaces of the stave will
have a rounded profile routered groove, 5mm deep down 2/3 of the oar. This
should have a similar effect to having a hollow oar in terms of strengthening
the stave by increasing the wall area whilst reducing weight but without the
technical effort of building hollow ones. The spruce should be 40% less dense
[heavy] the the Douglas Fir we have used so far. If we are happy with the
results we can make a larger number of stave up, two per session. The blades
will be ply wood, either morticed or scarfed.
The requirements are
Four people to plane glue and clamp the staves. Graeme and I are two of them
and the other two need to be fairly handy wood workers too.The restricted
number is down to the number of clamps available .
Electric and manual planes
Normal carpentry gear
We have clamps
Parcel tape
We have glue and woods
Router
9mm ply for blades not yet sourced.
Firstly though we need help trailering the wood to get it cut into 65mm planks
and bringing it back to the workshop. I will contact my friend with the bench
saw in his workshop to confirm he is able to cut the planks and if all is good,
when we can get it to him.
Sanders and painters to finish the oars.
The two jobs are independent of each other and can be done simultaneously in
the work shop. We could do with starting these next week.
Many heads etc. Clayton#######################################################
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