Bill B, George A, and Rod M build a wood strip Classic Moth to the Tweezer D design. Music is “Wave” by Mike Auldridge from the CD “Dobro Sessions” www.earwigoagin.blogspot.com
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Hi. That’s beautiful!…
Kayak sites show clamping each strip…eeeek! I didn’t see clamping. Do you just nail the strips to the molds w/ a brad gun?
You can’t use brads. Too hard to remove when you lift the shell off the molds. We used staples, just a manual Arrow staple gun. For each strip we used 9/16 inch staples into each mold station and 2 X 1/4 inch staples between each station to pull the strips together. Lots of staples to pull but we had good luck with the staple remover from office supply store “Staples” (no pun intended). Kayak strip builders who desire perfection have developed a fastener free method of attaching strips.
Sure beats weeks of clamping daily! -Thanks.
where did yu get the plans for the boat?
Good goin! She’s beautiful.
Beautiful :questions How much beer does it take to build a great boat like that?
Is a wooden boat covered with fiberglass still a wooden boat? could you not just have varnished her? What is the transome made from ? why is the fore bulk head thinner than the rear?
More power to your elbow ,
Bogsdolics.
TweezerD was designed by Rod Mincher. The Gen2 Classic Moths such as TweezerD are very tippy and there are better Classic Moth designs out there for the average sailor (if you are a competent Laser or Sunfish racer, a Mistral or TweezerD design is OK, if not look at other designs such as a Mint, a Titan or a Shelly).
The foredeck is thinner ply to reduce weight in the bow. The aft deck is thicker since the skipper sits on it occasionally when the wind is up and the Moth is planing downwind.
Woodstrip construction is a composite construction where the wood strips form the core and glass skins provide the strength. Woodstrips without the glass skins would not even be close on the structural strength of a glass/wood/glass layup. I have heard of people leaving out the glass skins and it has been as disaster.
No keel, of any kind?
beautiful
awsome just awsome
amazing
how much difference in wieght is there between core-cell and strip plank ??
and also how would you do a longer version of this?..say 32 ft?..would you have to scarph all the pieces?
idolos!!! les quedo hermoso!!! los felicito!!”
Beautiful! Beautiful! Beautiful! Gorgeous!
Everyone (almost) has had dreams of building a boat. Too few of us actually do it.
Thank you for sharing your project with the rest of us.
Very nice looking boat! Where did you get the plans for it? I sailed scows on Lake Mendota – Madison, Wisconsin years ago and am thinking your design might be fun to sail and build. I’d appreciate any info you could pass on to me.
i plaing make my own boat. i got already a model, i made it 100% myself, an i wana make a real one wich is 2meters long. very short for a boat, this boat can load up max to 300kg, the boat itself will just weight 31kg
i desidet make it just 2meters because:
its not 2 heavy it dont sink if i sit on it, it is 0.7meters on the widest spot.
hey since its composite can i rip 1/4 thick strips from planks of stock spruce ?..cuz the whole thing is gonna be encased anyway the moisture content shouldnt be an issue?..also i wanted to build more of a v shape(to help with ease of planing the sailboat hull) rather than a round bilge, is strip plank suitable for that?
horrible song
Wonderful work!!
Could you please tell me whats the type of glue you use? Thanks a lot.
Never stop to make them!
beautiful!
wheres the center board?
or it doesn’t need one?
i took a dump while watching this.
very nice!