Finally, I hear you say, we're actually going to plank the boat! Yes indeed, in this episode the class completely planks up the snub dinghy in Huon Pine, and makes a start on planking the stem dinghy with Australian Red Cedar. The whole process is explained. When I first started teaching Clinker planking in the early 1990's, I found it hard to get people to understand the concept of jerralds (gains or rebates) where the planks are let into each other at the bow and stern. After students ruined a few planks, I came up with a sequence of processes which if followed correctly allows first-timers to get it right every time. It's not necessarily the way most boatbuilders did it, but it's the only foolproof way to learn. And seeing a fair proportion of the clinker boats being built today are done by first-timers, I think it's timely.
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AuthorIan Smith, Boatbuilder (ret'd) Archives
January 2024
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