Re: "Wing-Nut" the modular canoe
Wing Nut is painted in her blue with pink trim and beige interior
colour scheme. Fully assembled to 15' 8" in our carport, her name is
painted on the bows and Largo-Florida on her transom. Her only
hardware, aside from 16 wing-nuts is two dog-chain quality eye screws
forw and aft with a bit of bright yellow polyethelyene rope attached.
As Bolger says, "We are trying to have fun, aren't we?", and in that
spirit (principally due to a lack of aged Oporto) she's all decked
out in 5 pink flagettes, two spinning garden flowers, and two bright
green and blue umbrellas.
She is colourful, it's a good its in Florida, or people might make
aspersion to my gender preferences based on its colour scheme.
The christening juice will be a bottle of Budweiser laced maple
syrup, to further bind our two wonerful countries in boating and
drinking.
We'll launch tomorrow morning and I'll put up some photos of the,
er, .... great boating event as soon as I dry out.
Intrepid Modular Boat Nut
Bruce Hector
Wishing Peter Lenihan would show up with a case of aged Oporto for
the occasion.
colour scheme. Fully assembled to 15' 8" in our carport, her name is
painted on the bows and Largo-Florida on her transom. Her only
hardware, aside from 16 wing-nuts is two dog-chain quality eye screws
forw and aft with a bit of bright yellow polyethelyene rope attached.
As Bolger says, "We are trying to have fun, aren't we?", and in that
spirit (principally due to a lack of aged Oporto) she's all decked
out in 5 pink flagettes, two spinning garden flowers, and two bright
green and blue umbrellas.
She is colourful, it's a good its in Florida, or people might make
aspersion to my gender preferences based on its colour scheme.
The christening juice will be a bottle of Budweiser laced maple
syrup, to further bind our two wonerful countries in boating and
drinking.
We'll launch tomorrow morning and I'll put up some photos of the,
er, .... great boating event as soon as I dry out.
Intrepid Modular Boat Nut
Bruce Hector
Wishing Peter Lenihan would show up with a case of aged Oporto for
the occasion.
Inspired by PB's many sectional or modular designs, and by my own
TIMS design, I'm at it again.
I'm assembling the infinite modular canoe today, to be named "Wing-
Nit" on lauching. The sections being held together by bolts, washers
and wing-nuts, so its not a <wink> measure of the designer's sanity.
In keeping with the Florida angle, we plan to paint it tropical sky
blue with flamingo pink trim.
Yesterday I taped the curved seams of the bow and stern sections, so
today I'll line it all and bolt it together. I think ske'll need a
keelson of 1 by 2 to stiffen her bottom, all is 1/4 inch cheapo ply
from Lows and Home Depot.
Assembled she's 16 feet, by 2 foot beam (same as Bolger's Pero
sailing pirogue), 12 inch sides, perfectly flat bottom that rockers
up 3 incked at the pointed stem and 2 inches to the square tail
transom.
Of course, like TIMS, more units can be added or taken away as
desired.
My wife's favorite part of the design is that they can stand in the
house as bookcases, shelves, coffee table when not being used as a
boat. THe modular part of the design was needed so we could move it
about in a Honda Accord, and for off season storage inside our
trailler, as the park has rules against storing boats, bikes, etc on
the property.
She also likes the idea of a clear Lexan viewing window, which I'll
build into the flat bottom, if I can find a stiff enough piece. All
the slabs at HD are too thin.
Still to add, gunwales, corner braces, motor mount. Since I'm
motorless here, that can wait. Hope to launch by Sunday. No hurry
though, Monday, or Tuesday will do fine....
I've been taking picks, but don't have the connectorline to join my
camera to the computer here. After launch I'll take the memory chip
to a camera shop and get the pics dropped onto a CD so I can upload a
few of the shots.
Florida's Floating Wing Nut
Bruce Hector
Who hates Yahoo's "overtype" feature, does anyone know how to turn it
off? It makes editing a real pain as it eats what you're trying to re-
type, and on my computer, comes on and off spasmodically, usually
when I need it least.
TIMS design, I'm at it again.
I'm assembling the infinite modular canoe today, to be named "Wing-
Nit" on lauching. The sections being held together by bolts, washers
and wing-nuts, so its not a <wink> measure of the designer's sanity.
In keeping with the Florida angle, we plan to paint it tropical sky
blue with flamingo pink trim.
Yesterday I taped the curved seams of the bow and stern sections, so
today I'll line it all and bolt it together. I think ske'll need a
keelson of 1 by 2 to stiffen her bottom, all is 1/4 inch cheapo ply
from Lows and Home Depot.
Assembled she's 16 feet, by 2 foot beam (same as Bolger's Pero
sailing pirogue), 12 inch sides, perfectly flat bottom that rockers
up 3 incked at the pointed stem and 2 inches to the square tail
transom.
Of course, like TIMS, more units can be added or taken away as
desired.
My wife's favorite part of the design is that they can stand in the
house as bookcases, shelves, coffee table when not being used as a
boat. THe modular part of the design was needed so we could move it
about in a Honda Accord, and for off season storage inside our
trailler, as the park has rules against storing boats, bikes, etc on
the property.
She also likes the idea of a clear Lexan viewing window, which I'll
build into the flat bottom, if I can find a stiff enough piece. All
the slabs at HD are too thin.
Still to add, gunwales, corner braces, motor mount. Since I'm
motorless here, that can wait. Hope to launch by Sunday. No hurry
though, Monday, or Tuesday will do fine....
I've been taking picks, but don't have the connectorline to join my
camera to the computer here. After launch I'll take the memory chip
to a camera shop and get the pics dropped onto a CD so I can upload a
few of the shots.
Florida's Floating Wing Nut
Bruce Hector
Who hates Yahoo's "overtype" feature, does anyone know how to turn it
off? It makes editing a real pain as it eats what you're trying to re-
type, and on my computer, comes on and off spasmodically, usually
when I need it least.