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<\/a><\/p>\nThe aft, full width rib I had hoped to get in as one piece, but I ended up doing it as two halves. The ‘how to build a lightning’ book from the international class association said that doing it in one piece would be difficult, and wouldn’t add any extra strength, so I figure it isn’t a big deal. in addition, on closer inspection I’m not 100% sure the ribs i took out were oak. so… looks like this thing will be stronger in the middle?<\/p>\n
So, that completes the structural repairs. on to the structural enhancements.<\/p>\n
Today, I cut wood for the start of the cabin framing. Most of this i’m doing by eye and measuring only to establish symmetry. \u00a0First, I had to haul the boat up onto the trailer and get it out of the shop.<\/p>\n
This is probably the last time I’ll be using the Engine Hoist. It worked well to get the boat off the trailer so I could replace the ribs, but now that the boat is structurally sound and I have adjusted the trailer to properly cradle the boat. In addition, once the cabin top is on, I will no longer have the clearance to hook the boat up to it.<\/p>\n So, here it is, with one of the sails that came with the mast mounted.<\/p>\n Here’s a shot of me figuring out how much angle to put in the cabin sides. I mocked it up with some 1×2 pine, first focusing on the sides, and getting the front and rear frames parallel.<\/p>\n Here it is from the front, trying to get an idea from how it will look from all sides.<\/p>\n I then clipped a batten to the top of the aft mock up, and played with how much to drop the sides.<\/p>\n Using a batten will result in a shape that is curved, but not a perfect radius. It’ll be flatter on the sides. I decided to do it this way because then the flatter curve on the ends will complement the flatter side decks. I took measurements, then transferred them to a board to cut the curved deck beams.<\/p>\n I lofted the top and bottom edges. the beam is 1.5 ” tall at the ends, and this becomes 2″ at the midpoint; the bottom edge is less curved than the top, to make it stronger in the middle.<\/p>\n Then I did the same for the second beam.<\/p>\n Here’s the first test fit of the cabin top beams.<\/p>\n At this point the wind was getting up a little bit, and i didn’t want to keep the sails and rig up without having all the standing rigging. So, I did that crazy caper toss. I really will need to figure out some way to set the mast on this with something holding it besides just myself.<\/p>\n And after a little trimming….<\/p>\n I think this will work fine.<\/p>\n In front of the front beam, iI plan to have a flat facet on the side, coming from the chine where the beam meats the frame down diagonally to where the cockpit cutout goes from diagonal to an athwartship line.<\/p>\n the straight front section will have a combing piece installed with a curve on it, and then the middle of the cabin is just a conic section.<\/p>\n The rear piece will support the cabin top and the aft cabin bulkhead. Once the bulkhead is installed, the companionway will get cut out. I’m still scratching my head a little about the companionway; I don’t have a ton of cabin top space before I have to kick down the roof line to leave room for the vang so I don’t think a standard sliding hatch will have enough room. I’m going to have to do some brainstorming and research to come up with a plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today, I finished the rib replacement. a total of six half-ribs have been replaced. The aft, full width rib I had hoped to get in as one piece, but I ended up doing it as two halves. The ‘how to build a lightning’ book from the international class association said that doing it in one Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-repairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/teammonkeyfist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/teammonkeyfist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/teammonkeyfist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teammonkeyfist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teammonkeyfist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/teammonkeyfist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"http:\/\/teammonkeyfist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teammonkeyfist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/teammonkeyfist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teammonkeyfist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teammonkeyfist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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