Tom Baker took delivery of a Redwing 18 frame-and-panel kit at the Small Craft Festival in St.`Michaels. MD.
The parts for the Aurora have been cut and delivered to Preservation Shipyyard. She's the first stitch-and-glue hull that I know of that has been through the Coast Guard passenger boat plans-approval process. The frames and bulkheads were cut from 1/2" fir marine ply and will be laminated from two layers. We also cut the parts for the inner layer of planking. The planking was cut from 1/2" Meranti BS1088 marine plywood, with stepped scarfs cut along the 4' and the 8' sides of the parts as needed. After the hull is sassembled from the parts we cut, the additional layers of ply will be cold-molded on the outside with staggered butt joints. As of Oct 15, the frames and hull are assembled, the yard is starting to fillet the hull
The hull plug for Robb Ladd's Oxford Express cruiser has been built from the parts that we cut, and we've just delivered the pieces for the deck plug and cabin sides.
We've cut the mold parts for a strip-planked Stealth Dinghy, a Sparkman and Stephens racing sailboat design. The mold parts we cut had engraved centerlines, waterlines, and marks for the sheer, and were notched to slip into an included plywood ladder frame.
Since the Weekend Dinghy was so successful at the Family Boatbuilding event at the WoodenBoat Show this year, Karl Stambaugh and I have been refining the kit, working on the instructions, and perfecting the Weekend Trainer, the sailing version. The plywood sailrig parts that we've developed are really simple to assemble, with contours cut for shaping the rudder and daggerboard and alignment pins for easy gluing.
Although I haven't done much new with them lately, the wooden clock that we cut with our ShopBot is still running! When the dust settles from some other projects we'll try to get back to work on them.
Some of you may remember a kayak I cut for John Seitz about a year ago. He had designed it during a course at the WoodenBoat School, and asked if I could develop panels from his drawings and offsets and cut the parts for him. The boat is finished and he brought it to the Show this year. He really did a great job of building her; see for yourself. There was also a picture of her in WoodenBoats Launchings section in the Sept-Oct 1999 issue.
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