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As of today me and Charlie started my boat that I have been waiting for 2 years now spent about 130 at home depot so far on wood and supplies - tomato plant and circular saw. Today we did very little but still got some stuff done without cutting off anyone's hand. We almost lost the table saw it was leaning quite a bit down hill and was only screwed into the supporting legs by one bolt for a while and the legs where all going down hill and threatening to topple over. This was a little scary, but we got it done. After cutting 2x4s into 2x1s we clued 8 of them into 4 very long ones by scarfing them together. I don't know if that is spelled right. Left them at Charlies house because they are drying tonight. That was all we could do before Charlie's work so we took the plywood to my house and I drew out the sides for the Jon. Hopefully we will get farther tomorrow.
Hope it floats enough to hold me.
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Why don't we ask Carl about the 1st jon boat he built.......
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It is spelled scarf joint. If is a way to glue two pieces of wood together with maximum strength. You cut two triangles out of the piece of wood and then glue them together. Usually you do a 5" or a 7" triangle cut out to make the joint. The table saw is in bad shape...after all it has been getting used all of the time for years. Today it should hopefully start looking like a boat. I am now going to go outside and check if the pieces are dry...
Last edited by redskinsfan360 (Apr-11-09 7:45AM)
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I really wish you guys the best. In the mid sixties, when dinosaurs ruled the earth, I tried to build a jon boat. With no professional advice I cut, glued and screwed together something that resembled a jon boat. When completed I took it to Weems Creek in Annapolis for the maiden voyage. I remember well untying the ropes and lifting it from the top of my car. When I tried to launch it, the seat pulled free from the bulkhead! This seat was suppose to give structural support to the plywood sides. I stuck the seat back in the boat and lifted the outboard motor up onto the transom. In those days outboard motors were large and heavy. The bow immediately headed skyward so I asked my fishing partner to sit in front to compensate. As I recall, this gave us approximately no freeboard. Port and starboard, we were almost flush with the water. I started the motor and we slowly went out into the creek. Then, like now, my favorite quarry was White Perch.
Well, we began catching fish; but the only cooler was full of beer! Not a problem, because we were taking on water fast enough to create a huge live well in the bottom of the boat! As darkness overtook us we sat in a half sunk boat with beer cans floating and fish swimming all around. One of us must have had a sober moment and decided to start the motor and head for shore. When we beached the vessel, we used our shoe laces as stringers. After removing the motor and gas tank we allowed Weems Creek to claim the SS May Float as fish habitat!
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Carl does build a better rod rack!!
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That is funny Carl! I do not plan on the boat sinking..this is the 6th boat that I have helped to build and the 5 before are still working. We worked for 5 1/2 hours today with a McDonalds and Home Depot break in between. We sanded the scarfed pieces of wood, cut the sides out, and but jointed them together. We then started fitting the frames so that we can glue them on Monday. Pics will be up soon.
We are at 9 1/2 total hours so far!
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had to take a break and wire up a fountain in the backyard but after i put more of the frameing together so i guess we are at 10hrs but most of it is running to homedepot for supplies or thinking what we have to do next
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Here are the pics.
The two sides.
The but joint drying.
Transporting the frames that we scarf jointed.
Sanding the scarf joints.
The frames that we fitted to be glued and nailed tomorrow.
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redskinsfan360 wrote:
Sanding the scarf joints.
http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm26 … C01914.jpg
Wonder who posted this neck breaker.
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Bob- There are more sideways shots from his Disney trip! You know...Charlie is a smart guy. He's a very good fisherman, a boat builder, a leader and a good student.
But what gives with these pictures? Can someone help this young lad before us old guys get permanent neck damage?
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from now on he is not allowed to take vertical pictures ever!
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Pacemaker wrote:
Bob- There are more sideways shots from his Disney trip! You know...Charlie is a smart guy. He's a very good fisherman, a boat builder, a leader and a good student.
But what gives with these pictures? Can someone help this young lad before us old guys get permanent neck damage?
If he can't get them posted upright he should put a warning "best viewed lying down". I was starting to think it was me.
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Osprey wrote:
If he can't get them posted upright he should put a warning "best viewed lying down". I was starting to think it was me.
Classic line.......
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I wonder what my parents will say when I start parking the boat in the garage?
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charlie i was thinking and i wanna put these sweet rod lockers in the boat instead of the 7ft ones
http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templ … hasJS=true
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Matt and I did a LOT of work today! Matt will tell you what we did for 7 hours besides going to home depot 3 times.
Last edited by redskinsfan360 (Apr-13-09 1:39PM)
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you forgot our moes break!
well so we ended up putting both the front and the back on and made a engine mount in the back so i can put a small hp gas engine on. and we also put all the bottom suports on. that was about it not to much work just a lot of gluing, drilling, and screwing
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We also did the side supports....
Here are the pics
Now turn your head...
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Is Matt mooning us?
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Haha...he was hammering. You had to put your whole body into hammering the front while holding it still so the nail would go in.
I think I am going to like his boat more than some of mine when it is done
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anyone got an old outboard laying around?
In that picture I think i was triping over the boat
and buddy our dog likes to come and see whats up while we are building he doesnt mind any of the tools exept for the drill and then he runs for the hills
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I see you swinging the hammer....and holding the wood!
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that would make more sense oh and this is our next project
http://www.bruceroberts.com/public/HTML … iption.htm
http://www.cmdboats.com/mbirdk.htm?cart … b4c91c3f36
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Tuesday we worked for about three hours and put the bottom on and Matt showed me all of his ideas for the layout.
Today, wednesday, we put more supports on the inside running from bow to stern. Worked for two hours.
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