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Posts: 43 IP: Logged Posts: 67 Glad to hear things are moving along. I've taken a bit of a break after drilling my keel bolts as things are busy at work and with the family. I would think that you are doing the correct thing by hanging each side separately. Though the boat is supposed to be symmetric there is enough difference on each side to have you do this. If you don't edge set or have to put any force into putting the plank in place then Bud's technique should work fine. This may save some time, but I'm a believer in doing each plank from the previously hung one. There may be some differences in hanging that don't show up until after the plank is on and screwed down. John IP: Logged Posts: 43 I find that you truely have to let the spiling battens lay flat with absolutely no tension. I nail my three battens into place between hung plank and line off batten first (so I don't have to look for the line off marks on the frames), then screw pieces in to joint the three together. Then I spile, remove and so on... The hardest part is the hood ends. There is lot of fitting going on and trying to clamp the plank down is a bear. IP: Logged All times are ET (US)
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Topic: More Planking Questions
Tom Flatley
Builder
Registered: Aug 2005
posted 08-23-2006 07:51 AM
This planking seems to be going pretty slow. I'm spiling the plank, cutting, trying it out on boat, adjusting for that 'light-tight' fit, then screwing (I'm also red leading the inside as I go which takes no time at all). I'm doing this separately for each side. Should I be doing two at a time, use the spiled plank for template on other side and fitting that one separately? I feel that there might be enough difference between port and starboard to have one side fit fine and the other get trimmed too much and wind up too thin widthwise.
Also, in MacIntosh's, he talks about scribing the outside edge (not the edge that is being fitted) of the plank before you hang it onto the next flitch and using that as the next fitted edge for the plank below it. Then all you need to do is spile the outside edge for that plank and supposedly have a perfect fit for when you hang that one. (in otherwords, you scribe the outside edge of the plank above before you hang it, now you have the fitted edge to be used on the plank below. So you finish one plank off, then use that one to start the next plank before hanging and move down the side basically doing one and a half planks at a time.) Has anyone tried this and how did it go?
John Pierce
Builder
Registered: Apr 2004
posted 08-24-2006 05:35 AM
Tom,
Tom Flatley
Builder
Registered: Aug 2005
posted 08-24-2006 07:54 AM
Thanks, I didn't think about the edge set problem.
Out of the six I've done only one has been easy and with little edgeset. There is definitely a learning curve, unfortunately I'll probably figure it out on plank 21!next newest topic | next oldest topic
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