Re: Pointy Skiff - another question
Thanks for your comments Rick.
I do really need it to be light. The dinghy locker rent costs a
fortune, and even the owners of the boat yard don't recommend
chaining to the open racks. Vandels will reshape it.
So that means cartopping.
Maybe a few diagonal hit and miss strips of ply glued to the inside
of the bottom? This seemed to work in racing dinghies where you
stomp about.
And probably epoxy taped chines without chine logs.
DonB
I do really need it to be light. The dinghy locker rent costs a
fortune, and even the owners of the boat yard don't recommend
chaining to the open racks. Vandels will reshape it.
So that means cartopping.
Maybe a few diagonal hit and miss strips of ply glued to the inside
of the bottom? This seemed to work in racing dinghies where you
stomp about.
And probably epoxy taped chines without chine logs.
DonB
--- Inbolger@yahoogroups.com, sctree <sctree@d...> wrote:
> Here's an uneducated guess from an owner/builde,r calm water
rower, of a
> Pointy Skiff.
>
> Built as designed I bet Pointy Skiff will do good for you. I know
at
> times every pound can count, and my guess is a 1/4" bottom would
save
> maybe 8 or 10 pounds, but you will have two nearly flat areas
aprox. 3'
> x 2' that are unsupported. I wonder how careful you would need to
be to
> prevent putting your foot through that expanse if it were only
1/4"?
> Maybe you could use removable duck boards? Handling her on shore
would
> also be a concern, although I have at times had 1/4" ply that I've
felt
> was stronger than some of the crummy 3/8" around here..
>
> You could add an additional skid or two to the bottom??
>
> And if always underloaded you might get away with shaving an inch
or so
> off the sheer all the way around??????
>
> Anyone else????????
>
> Rick
>
>
>
> dbaldnz wrote:
>
> > Musing about a tender for my Micro Navigator, on a mooring in
quite
> > choppy water at times, the Pointy would perhaps make quite a
stable
> > and handy little tender. My Elegant Punt went missing, then found
> > again on someones lawn. My wife said go get it. I said no.....it
> > didnt prove up to the job, best left where it is.
> > Wanting my tender to be as light as possible, I wondered about a
> > 1/4" bottom instead of 3/8". The boat was designed for heavy
work,
> > crab pots and the like. Used as an underloaded tender, does
anyone
> > who has used one have any thoughts about a lighter bottom?
> > Thanks,
> > DonB
> >
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Here's an uneducated guess from an owner/builde,r calm water rower, of a
Pointy Skiff.
Built as designed I bet Pointy Skiff will do good for you. I know at
times every pound can count, and my guess is a 1/4" bottom would save
maybe 8 or 10 pounds, but you will have two nearly flat areas aprox. 3'
x 2' that are unsupported. I wonder how careful you would need to be to
prevent putting your foot through that expanse if it were only 1/4"?
Maybe you could use removable duck boards? Handling her on shore would
also be a concern, although I have at times had 1/4" ply that I've felt
was stronger than some of the crummy 3/8" around here..
You could add an additional skid or two to the bottom??
And if always underloaded you might get away with shaving an inch or so
off the sheer all the way around??????
Anyone else????????
Rick
dbaldnz wrote:
Pointy Skiff.
Built as designed I bet Pointy Skiff will do good for you. I know at
times every pound can count, and my guess is a 1/4" bottom would save
maybe 8 or 10 pounds, but you will have two nearly flat areas aprox. 3'
x 2' that are unsupported. I wonder how careful you would need to be to
prevent putting your foot through that expanse if it were only 1/4"?
Maybe you could use removable duck boards? Handling her on shore would
also be a concern, although I have at times had 1/4" ply that I've felt
was stronger than some of the crummy 3/8" around here..
You could add an additional skid or two to the bottom??
And if always underloaded you might get away with shaving an inch or so
off the sheer all the way around??????
Anyone else????????
Rick
dbaldnz wrote:
> Musing about a tender for my Micro Navigator, on a mooring in quite[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> choppy water at times, the Pointy would perhaps make quite a stable
> and handy little tender. My Elegant Punt went missing, then found
> again on someones lawn. My wife said go get it. I said no.....it
> didnt prove up to the job, best left where it is.
> Wanting my tender to be as light as possible, I wondered about a
> 1/4" bottom instead of 3/8". The boat was designed for heavy work,
> crab pots and the like. Used as an underloaded tender, does anyone
> who has used one have any thoughts about a lighter bottom?
> Thanks,
> DonB
>
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Musing about a tender for my Micro Navigator, on a mooring in quite
choppy water at times, the Pointy would perhaps make quite a stable
and handy little tender. My Elegant Punt went missing, then found
again on someones lawn. My wife said go get it. I said no.....it
didnt prove up to the job, best left where it is.
Wanting my tender to be as light as possible, I wondered about a
1/4" bottom instead of 3/8". The boat was designed for heavy work,
crab pots and the like. Used as an underloaded tender, does anyone
who has used one have any thoughts about a lighter bottom?
Thanks,
DonB
choppy water at times, the Pointy would perhaps make quite a stable
and handy little tender. My Elegant Punt went missing, then found
again on someones lawn. My wife said go get it. I said no.....it
didnt prove up to the job, best left where it is.
Wanting my tender to be as light as possible, I wondered about a
1/4" bottom instead of 3/8". The boat was designed for heavy work,
crab pots and the like. Used as an underloaded tender, does anyone
who has used one have any thoughts about a lighter bottom?
Thanks,
DonB