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Topic: Scarfing Planks
Tom Flatley
Builder
Registered: Aug 2005
posted 08-15-2006 12:15 AM
I'm on my fifth plank and have run out of wide planks. I see that the rest will be scarfed. Has everyone else had to scarf or are my spilings wrong. I can barely cut a plank from 12in wide flitches. My flitches also taper down a little but the third plank takes 12in wide wood and I assume the rest get wider up to the sheer.
Brent Cummings
Builder
Registered: Dec 2004
posted 08-15-2006 10:55 AM
The fifth and sixth planks were scarfed on my boat as well. After that they start to straighten out again, so save some good long wide planks for planks 7-9. Put a dogleg in your scarfs so you can do with narrower planks and stagger them. I think most people will suggest a 12:1 scarf.
Barry Frederickson
Builder
Registered: Aug 2005
posted 08-15-2006 05:29 PM
Not knowing the planking widths was confusing. Now that all my planks are finished Im able to pass on this info . Hope it helps.. Garbord was got out of a six inch plank , just. next four required 12 inch. nr 6 would have been 14 inch which I did not have. from here I used 6 inch boards and but blocks for 6, 7, 8..The but blocks worked out really well bedded in sika at stations near 13 for plank 6, 9 for plank 7 and 5 for plank nr 8. plank nr 9 is nearly straight and a 6 inch flitch does it as well as the Sheer strakes..
Tom Flatley
Builder
Registered: Aug 2005
posted 08-18-2006 09:11 AM
Thanks a lot. This helps quite a bit.next newest topic | next oldest topic
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