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Old 03-24-2011, 09:44   #8
dennisw
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Originally Posted by Buffalobob View Post
It took perhaps 5-6 months being as I had a fulltime job and no enclosed area to build it. I built it in my driveway and covered it with tarps to keep the snow off. Such things as weather temps on weekends would determine whether I could glue or work with the resin. The tricky thing is to rip a 20 ft long 1"X10" into 20 ft long strips 1/4"X1". That's just a whole lot of ripping and sawdust.

Critical issue as always is front end prep, which in this case is an accurate strongback. Other thing is that there is a lot of hand fitting of complex angles such that you need to really know something about how to plane wood.
Buffalobob,

I don't know if you had a chance to view the Van Dam boat video, but fabricating the strips they used to make the hull was as you said, very complex with lots of hand planing involved. In the boat featured they used 1,000 board feet of wood on the boat. Much of the wood was fairly exotic, so I can only imagine what this boat cost. The host of the show said the trailer cost more than his boat. They almost lost the boat as one of the welds on the trailer broke.

The boat is called Semper Avanti. The two brothers who own the boat came up with the name independently at different times. Apparently their Father was in the 10th mnt division in WWII and that was their motto. Nice final touch to a story about a beautiful boat.
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