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Breaking the rules

Breaking the rules of posting a post without pictures, but not only that. I was down at the build today. One of our gunwale stringers has snapped during pre-bending. Again, at the knot. The hunt is on for knot free … Continue reading

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A dash of CAD

Our stem redesign is proving to be not as effortless as initially believed. Since we can’t go to the workshop on the weekend I spent some time building a CAD model in Solidworks of what we’re trying to do. Kind … Continue reading

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Stringers and stress-testing

Another productive day at the workshop. We started dry-fitting the stringers to see how the forward stem is going to look like. Bending the 2×4 cm pine stringers was made much easier by pre-bending them, but the ideal stringer should … Continue reading

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