Thursday, August 13, 2009

Tumblehome Nina Gets Spray Rails






Finally settled on a profile for sprayrails and got them epoxied to the hull.  They are 11'3" long, are 1 1/8" wide at the base, 3/4" wide on the outer side and 1 1/8" high.  The rails don't come all the way to the cutwater, one is a bit shorter than the other , I will even them up and trim them to a taper as they approach the bow.

Friday, March 13, 2009

New Pictures of Nina

Here are the pictures I have been promising.  Shows the skeg, thre recently glassed hull, the motorwell and transom.  There is a drawing on the transom that shows the internal framing for the motorwell and the cutout in the transom.  The cutout is based on Harry Bryan's plans for the Handy Billy and  is very similar to the cutout in Ninegret as well as several others of the same type.

Skeg





The skeg is just set in place to see how it fits, will need more work but pretty close.  It is made form a salvaged fir floor joist, old growth, nice piece of wood.

Transom covered in glas, gunnels and coaming in place




Here is the transom, not yet glassed, don't know if you can see the writing.  The solid line represents the cutout, the dashed line represents the internal framing.

Nina's Motorwell


Glassing Tumblehome Nina


Nina gets a coat of 12 ounce biaxial fabric, a fill coat of epoxy and some blended filler over a ragged bit of cloth at the bow.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

False Transom Taped

Today I was able to tape in the transom after trimming off slight amount of excess plywood from the side panels.  Also did some filling and taping on the chines.