Former Anderton Company motor "Norway"

[Nightwatch]

Impressed.

[stagedamager]

a few from today playing with the deck beam and first section of gunwhale running into the deck beam on the port side, With every bit of new steel and every tack weld the hull gets stronger before we begin welding her up.......

[jacko264]

As a matter of  interest what type of welder are you going to. Use for the planks  ?

ark /  or mig 

you are making a wonderful job of this build.  You should be proud of your self

Graham

[stagedamager]

1 minute ago, jacko264 said:

As a matter of  interest what type of welder are you going to. Use for the planks  ?

ark /  or mig 

you are making a wonderful job of this build.  You should be proud of your self

Graham

Thanks for your kind words Graham, we're using a combination of mig and stick, weather dependent obviously, we plan to use 7024 iron powders on the outer chine weld, where we can we will mig but i've also got a load of 4mm rods which will be used in places. The tricky bit will be reducing heat deflection, but we have a plan for that.......

[jacko264]

All that sounds good to me ,

And  of course  running welds can be used to your  advantage  with   Bends in the plate

G

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[stagedamager]

exactly, and the beauty of a barrel sided boat built in planked steel is half the weld prep is already done for you!

[Morris]

I'm always delighted when I see there is an update on the best thread on cwdf (it's my favourite anyway)! Fantastic work. 

[stagedamager]

11 hours ago, Morris said:

I'm always delighted when I see there is an update on the best thread on cwdf (it's my favourite anyway)! Fantastic work. 

oh thats great to here, i'm glad you're enjoying following it!

As a special treat, here's todays efforts, tackwelding the rest of the gunwhales and the internal upstand into position, its great to be able to see the curvy shape of the hull finally appearing..... enjoy!

 

[stagedamager]

Not much from today, other than a section of chine plank and a rather nice twisty chine plank running into the stern post. That will be it for a few days, Hamilton moves from Edinburgh to Bristol this weekend so it's back to theatre for a bit!

[jacko264]

That’s looking very good  your talented   Looking forward to seeing more 

Graham

[stagedamager]

4 hours ago, jacko264 said:

That’s looking very good  your talented   Looking forward to seeing more 

Graham

Thanks Graham.

it's very much a non standard build style but the only way we can achieve the complex shapes. I'll update more when I can!

[ditchcrawler]

1 hour ago, stagedamager said:

Thanks Graham.

it's very much a non standard build style but the only way we can achieve the complex shapes. I'll update more when I can!

How many yards of weld do you thing there will be in that hull?

[DandV]

Lovely to see the intricacies of such craftsmanship.

She really is going to be such a beautiful boat.

[stagedamager]

On 28/04/2024 at 19:10, ditchcrawler said:

How many yards of weld do you thing there will be in that hull?

I think about 700 yards in total.

 

On 29/04/2024 at 03:44, DandV said:

Lovely to see the intricacies of such craftsmanship.

She really is going to be such a beautiful boat.

thanks, it's not going to be finished any time soon, but it's been a fun project this far!