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I have changed the name of this topic to make it more useful/informative. Plus, I'm not actually going to name the boat "Phoenix". 

Ok now we all want to know... are you really Will_Lavender or is that just a cover name for Not_Weekender?  Sry couldn't resist.

 

Haha!

Final coat of "Ambiance" yellow.  Looks much nicer against the black sheer strake than with the blue masking tape.  The margin between the black and the yellow will be covered with a rub rail.

Wow Will, what a nice job!  The Saralee is going to be a kind of stripper too and your thread will help me when I get started.  Did you track the build hours?

Thanks Craig!  I did not track build hours, partly because I took longer than most people would on some parts.  For example, I'm too cheap to buy enough clamps, so I could only put on 4 strips, two to a side, per day.  The other reason is that I got the molds out and set up just before my daughter was born, so the whole project sat for literally three years.  Hope the pics and description help you on your build. 

 

Craig, your build, which uses strips of considerably larger dimension (3/4" x 1.5"), requires something like 48 to 50 strips per side (going from memory), so 2 strips per side, per day, means 25 building sessions later, you'll have a raw hull shell. If you put in a 5 day work week, just 5 weeks. Working only weekends this is 12 weeks and frankly if working all day only gets 2 strips per side, you're in need of some Red Bull or something. I figure it'll take about an hour per strip, so lets assume it's 2 hours for you. That's 200 hours, for the hull shell. More assuming you screw around with coffee in the morning and are thinking too much about Viagra in the late afternoon, you'll get 6 to 8 production hours per building session if fairly organized or 4 to 6 if not. The worst case (4 hours of production per session) means 2 strips a day. The best case is 4 per day and still assuming you're plunking around, banging your head on stuff. I think I could build the raw hull shell to Sara Lee II in a week, maybe a week and a half. This is working full time, 5 days a week and not yet having a need for Viagra, though heavily coated with coffee throughout the morning.

wow that hull looks amazing !!!!!!!!
can't wait to see the next set of pics, it's snowing like crazy here :-\

I am with you Paul, Will's project gives me a visual image of the techniques you have told me about in our emails.  As you know most build boats, I build ice breakers.  Is' the German blood I think.....

I thought about slicing my piece of 1 1/5 inch flat brass bar stock in two by myself, but I would more likely would have sliced part of my self in two instead.  So, I took it down to Warehouse Road (you can get anything done there.... anything...) and asked the nice guy with one good arm at the machine shop to cut it for me.  You can always rely on a guy with only one working arm to do careful work where dangerous machines are involved.  It cost me ten bucks, but since I'm not in the trade and have no idea how much it's supposed to cost, I'll assume I got a good deal. It was a lot cheaper than an emergency room visit, although that might have made me a better machinist.


Two 5/8 ±.001 inch stem bands.