Category: Sam Devlin

October 28, 2011; 9:00 am – 3:00 pm. Today, rather than getting right to prepping the hull for fiberglass, I decided to plank the 3/4″ plywood transom with clear full 1″ x 5″ old growth fir. After planing, cutting and fitting the plank to size I glued and screwed them into place with epoxy. Then…

October 27, 2011; 10:30 am – 1:00 pm. Today, I just tab/welded the inside seams. I simply put epoxy with wood flour between each stitch. I also ran this thickened epoxy down both sides of each bulkhead….where the bulkheads meet the bottom and side panels.

October 26, 2011; 9:00 am – 4:00 pm. Today I started by tabbing the inside seams of the bottom panels with epoxy wood flour. Then I planed the side panels fare and planed a 45 degree angle on the inside edges of those panels. Once that was done my friend Johnny G. showed up to…

October 25, 2011. Today I worked from 9:30 – 2:00 pm with the help of my friend Johnny G. I set the two bottom panels of the hull. If you notice on the 1st photo I used 3/8″ all thread to pull the bow portion of the panels together rather than stitches. With this method…

October 22, 2011. Today I started at 8 am and ended at 2:45 pm. I finished up the framing and setting the bulkheads and transom on the strongback jig. I may take tomorrow off 🙂

October 21, 2011 from 10:15 am to 4:14 pm. Today I started building the strongback frame to set the bulkheads at their proper stations. This whole process is a time taker, and rightly so. This is like pouring a foundation for a building. Making sure all your forms are spot on before you add cement…

October 20, 2011. I started work at 9 am and ended at 2 pm. Today I laid out all the bulkheads and the transom and cut them to size. I also had a visitor. One time a Columbia river whitetail like this one just didn’t watch me work, the little guy walked right into my…

October 19, 2011. I worked from 9 am -3 pm today. I lofted all the hull panels and cut them to size. Tomorrow we tackle the bulkheads.

October 18, 2011. This is the first day of building Sam Devlin’s new plans for his trailerable sailboat “Eider”. This gaff rig sloop is approximately 18′ LOD. I started at 7:30 am and ended my day at 2:00 pm. I first laid out the seven (7) 4×8 sheets of 1/2″ plywood and scarfed them at…