Sheer and Skeg
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Since the boat was intended mainly as a rowing tender, I decided
to put a skeg from just aft of the daggerboard slot to the transom.
Sheer clamps are made from 1x2 Douglas Fir, with a slot on
one half. |
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You just can't have enough clamps, and I don't which is why you
see some creative clamping going on here: pliers squeezed together
with duct tape. No, it doesn't work very well. |
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Initially I had some harebrained scheme to shape a skeg from
a piece of wood, wax it, glass over it on the outside, and have
it pop out of the boat when I pulled the boat from the mold.
Needless to say it didn't work, and I ended up cutting the skeg
out and gluing it to the hull. What's interesting is that it
was painted but not fiberglassed, and after a season during which
it was in the water about half the time, it has some serious
worm holes and rot. |
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