Got a Gheenoe
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Totally stripped down and ready to start getting stuff added back. But I need to wait for my materials now.
Zach
As I recall he cut 1.5″ PVC, then heated it in the oven at 350 degrees for about five minutes, then he used a set of clamps to straighten one of the edges out while it cooled.
You seem to be enjoying the DYI thing, but if you decide to make this step easier, the folks at Custom Gheenoe (http://www.customgheenoe.com) sell the push pole brackets at a very reasonable price.
My Gheenoe is a Classic and is a little wider inside, but one thing I like is that the gas tank is mounted forward in the center box.
Jay –
I’m going to glass rails in along the edges, probably 1/2″ thick marine plywood by about 2″ tall.
Sounds like your gonna need quite a bit of glass then. I’m in smyrna. I sell paint and body shop materials for a living. I can get mat, resin, fiberglass filler, rollers, tape, paint, and all kinds of other stuff at distributor price. I can mix any color paint you want too. We met at the river last summer…
Zach,
The hard part comes if the prior owner didn’t have it registered.
Understated. 🙂
Here’s my version of Andrew’s idea regarding pushpole brackets:
…and also added a bootleg jackplate.
Back to floatation, you can get two part Coast Guard approved foam that will expand to fill your compartments with no gaps, otherwise there will always be moisture in there causing the usual problems unless they are vented when off the water. As for your decks, you don’t need to glass the undersides, just coat thoroughly with epoxy, and the edges too, that will seal them as well as anything. When installing the decks, mix epoxy with wood flour to the consistency of peanut butter and fill all the edge gaps prior to laying out the glass, that will keep it from hingeing in the joint and eventually breaking, then if you foam your voids it will give the structure a lot of stiffness and prevent the hull from squashing out when when under stress.
Have fun,
JCJon –
Good tip on just waterproofing in with epoxy. I may do that; the glass itself is probably overkill for the undersides of the decks. We made fillets last time using the dust-and-epoxy method, it worked well.
I got a trolling motor with the boat but it’s a manual job. I have never been a huge fan since watching a couple buddies chew their lines up in trolling motors, but I will definitely play around with it.
Trolling motors indeed can eat a flyline if you aren’t careful.
Hey Zach, on that poling platform you might like to keep it over the boat not off the back. Take how East Cape did the platforms on the early Gladesmen for example. At least that’s what I got from the sketch, was that it would hang
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All right, so I’ve been updating all day on the IA Facebook page, but this is of course for posterity, so…
Next I cut and clamped rails on for the front deck. These will get glassed into place for stability but they’re on there with Liquid Nails and they’re probably already strong enough to bear my weight.
I am really enjoying using this locking bench/sawhorse which Lauren’s dad got me for Christmas. He has a knack for knowing what I will need before I need it.
The centerline of the boat is about an inch and a half deeper than the edges, so I needed to put in stringer rails. These ended up being three layers of 1/2″ marine plywood thick. I’ll waterproof them with resin before they get glassed over.
Here are the forms for the lateral buttresses since the boat no longer has a central thwart via the bench seat.
Those get foamed in as well.
Front deck “curtain” with cut out for storage. Although the floor is higher than the inside of that compartment, I’ll glass it in so any water which gets up under there will drain back down under the floor. It won’t be “dry storage” but it’ll be handy for things like life jackets and anchors and what not.
And finally here are the decks for the floor:
Front view of where I am right now:
The slowest part so far has been waiting on the liquid nails to set up; it necessarily has to be clamped and it’s been wet, so it is taking a good day for each application. I’ll have to do both rear rails before I can start making the decks themselves. Those are going to be the last cuts of wood though. I probably won’t even need my third sheet of plywood. Then it is all glassing and–my favorite part–painting.
Zach
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