Thanks for posting the videos. They will be an amazing resource when I start building mine.

@Polymerman

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching. It makes me happy to hear you and others plan to build Temptress. I hope you all can avoid the mistakes that learn from along the way.

congratulations on making some youtube monies and having all the frames permanently fixed on the boat - probably some sort of nautical tradition for that

@Polymerman

2 ай бұрын

I assume the tradition is to drink bourbon. So I do it at every step.

What a shame that the polythene wasn't in the scrap part! Good save though. The cut off part does seem wasteful, I think I'll try and come up with a revised lamination guide so you don't need to lay up full thickness layers all the way along.

@Polymerman

2 ай бұрын

Dan - That is a really good idea. I believe that would also reduce the spring back of the stem for a tighter fit to the jig. Thanks again for all of your support. There is no way I could have built Temptress without your guidance and the 3D CAD model. Bob (a.k.a. Polymerman)

@hamishkirkness6933

2 ай бұрын

It has been interesting watching the lamination process and as with everything, there are a hundred ways to achieve the same results. For the stem, would a thinner lamination with a tighter bend and a knee added in front of the first frame achieve the same result with the benefit of having the grain direction of the knee supporting the bend work? Also, would the stringers benefit from being done as thinner full length lamination's and more precisely cut blocking added between frames as they are attached work? The large lamination's look difficult to bend and glue by a home builder and once glued, hard to handle. Just thinking out loud - no criticism intended. Doing is hard but worthwhile and I am just watching what the two of you are actually doing.

@DanLeeBoatbuilding

2 ай бұрын

@@Polymerman yes I think your right, with less veneers stressed around the full curve, spring back should be reduced. Also I’m happy to be of help, that’s a challenging first time boat build you are taking on there!

@DanLeeBoatbuilding

2 ай бұрын

@@hamishkirkness6933 thinner laminations in both cases would definitely reduce spring back. The stringers are a difficult one, there were several ways I thought of approaching making them. Originally they were going to be the primary build jig instead of the strongback and they would have sat on the jigs within the structure throughout the build. The full bulkheads made this not feasible though. Both this element and the transom jig got drawn up several times by myself in CAD and then abandoned for the current method.

@Polymerman

2 ай бұрын

@@hamishkirkness6933 Hamish - Thank you for watching. No criticism taken. For me this is a really interesting process, filled with painful learnings. And I do think you are correct that thinner lamination boards would have reduced spring back. But onward I march.

building a boat on frames ..is a left over from the old days when you skinned a hull with thousands of little bits of wood .. we now have sheet wood . so stitch and glue the frame later is hundreds of times faster and stronger ..AND hard chines dont roll as much . but if you want a boat that looks fantastic when its not doing what its spozzed to do .. that is . out of the water go frames go round bilge ..

@Polymerman

2 ай бұрын

That’s okay… I am also a left over from the old days.😀