Over the past few days we stitched the main hull pieces together: It is starting to look like a boat now. 😄
PocketShip: Scarfing the plywood and making the mold for the hull
We assembled the mold for the hull and placed the keelson inside: While we were scarfing the longer plywood hull pieces:
PocketShip: Melting and pouring lead
Today we melted lead and poured it into the compartments for the ballast in the keel as well as a weight in the centerboard. These will be covered in resin and fiberglass to contain it and reinforce the compartments.
Mill Creek 13: Finished
We are now finished building the Mill Creek 13. We painted it red and coated it with polyurethane on lower part. Here we took it out for a row along the canals of Bangmod around dusk…
PocketShip : Laying out the keel
Assembling the keel port, where the centerboard slides inside. Keel nose was made by gluing pieces of wood together and grind in shape with a table saw. Laying out the parts on a table to confirm the dimensions before gluing them together.
PocketShip: Building the keel and centerboard
This will be the centerboard Making a rabbet on the edge. Glueing the centerboard together with thickened resin. We received the rest of the timber for the boat this afternoon.
PocketShip: Cutting all the parts
We are starting to build the PocketShip from plans. All of the plywood parts are now cut and we are moving on to build the keel.
Mill Creek 13: Stitching together
Here are a few pictures of assembling the main body wood pieces and stitching them together with copper wire. After assembling the pieces, we used a mixture of resin and filler to apply a fillet to all of the strips where two pieces of wood meet. And then sanded it smooth And then the inner…
MillCreek13 and PocketShip
Looking around at various options for building a sailboat, we decided on the PocketShip by CLC boats: https://www.clcboats.com/modules/catalog/boat.php?category_qn=wooden-sailboat-kits&subcat_qn=pocketship&code=pocketship-sailing-pocket-cruiser-kit But at the good advice of their team, we are starting with a kayak to get the hang of the “stitch and glue” plywood and resin build process. We went with their Mill Creek 13 kayak: https://www.clcboats.com/shop/boats/kayak-kits/recreational-kayaks/mill-creek-13-stitch-and-glue-recreational-kayak-kit.html…