Here’s the third episode as promised. The class marks out and cuts out the moulds, knees and transoms to build two small clinker dinghies.
We filmed a Summer School class in 2000, and it’s taken me until now to edit it. It’s the first in a series which will eventually be accompanied by a thorough book on Traditional Clinker Construction. The first two episodes are here, the following episodes will appear….well, episodically, probably a few months apart. I’ve explained some complicated processes as best I
can, but you’ll still need a textbook. If you want to start your project before the series finishes and the book comes out, you can get a fair bit on lofting from both THE OPEN BOAT and WOODEN BOATBUILDING- THE SYDNEY WOODEN BOAT SCHOOL MANUALS, and the latter also includes the original manual on Building a Traditional Clinker Dinghy.
Stealer planks are let into a host plank where the host plank can’t be wide enough to cover the area it needs to.
Stopwaters prevent water migrating along joints in the backbone timbers in carvel-planked construction.
A severe bend and twist means that I have to steam the Huon Pine planks in my carvel-planked 24′ new build.
Bending the ribs into my 24′ Ranger class gaff sloop. Some are a single piece of timber, some are two laminations, some are of three laminations.
How to make a half-hull model. The example in this video is an Aussie 10-footer from 1906, and was made as a trophy for the historical 10-footer fleet.