Re: [Paddlewise] More on "Yare" [was: retrofitting bulkheads]

From: Alex Ferguson <a.ferguson_at_chem.canterbury.ac.nz>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 11:59:12 +1300
>So why did CLC drop the Yare design?
>
>Other than the fact that even the crew at the CLC shop was usually hard 
>pressed to avoid building knuckles into the transitions from round bottom 
>midsection to the V-shaped ends ...

Two ways to get round that -

make a "funny" shaped keel line on the two planks

or

"fill it in".

I used the latter method, adding 3 mm of ply along the "hollow" and 
grinding/fairing it back to a straight line keel.

Alex
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Alex (Sandy) Ferguson
Chemistry Department
University of Canterbury
New Zealand

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