Re: I want to cut wood

Roger has a good idea and I've been considering the same. For many stitch and glue designs, and many Michalak nail and glue designs, you don't need a jig, and the boat will take very little space until it goes 3D. Even panel butts can be temporary for the cutting process and glued up later.

All this to say you can work in the parking lot on nice days until it is time to go 3D, saving $$s for the space rental. I've got a 5.5" Ryobi battery circular saw which is adequate for a small boat project though you may need 2 batteries on the big cutting day.

Give thought to how you will store your completed treasure. Storage is where most/all the damage occurs to small boats.

Don

--- Inbolger@yahoogroups.com, "Roger Padvorac" <roger@...> wrote:
>...Have you thought about renting storage space to build the boat in?... I put a bulb base in it that has a plug for an extension cord, and the wiring is adequate for running a standard circler saw...

Hi Greg,

Have you thought about renting storage space to build the boat in? I'm talking about the kind of place with long narrow buildings with lots of garage doors in them.

Here a 10x20 foot storage unit (about 8 feet high inside) rents for about $180 a month, and there is a light fixture in each one. I put a bulb base in it that has a plug for an extension cord, and the wiring is adequate for running a standard circler saw.

Lots of small businesses use these as their warehouse/shop, and as long as you sweep up the mess and are out by closing time, nobody cares if you are rebuilding an antique car stored in the storage unit or fabricating stuff for your business. Building and fiber glassing a wooden boat would fit right into the other stuff that goes on there. Paint and epoxy fumes wouldn't be an issue at a place like this.

If you were going to get a trailer, once the boat is finished enough to go on a trailer, you could probably do a lot of the finishing work on the boat while its on the trailer, and cancel the storage unit to save costs.

Sincerely,

Roger

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From: "haffdaddy" <haffdaddy@...>

To: <bolger@yahoogroups.com>

Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 10:04 AM

Subject: [bolger] Re: I want to cut wood

> I have been wanting to build a boat for awhile now. But really have no space. No space like it would be built in a condo parking space that is shared with a van. So it has to be small 8ft max.

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> About 35 yrs

ago I came across plans for a boat from a sailing club in the Uk that wanted a one class boat for club sailing. It was a wire and glue thing that I built in my apartment. I remember the people who lived around me didn't like the smell of the glue and put up a fuss.

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> One day mother (in law) came to

live with us and the boat (it was in the bedroom) had to go. The little boat didn't go easy and put up a real fight. My mother in law seem to be real happy that my little boat was gone, and stayed with us for the next 20 years.

>
> So here is my problem, I want to build a small boat. It will be built

in a parking space that is shared with a van. The wood parts would be cut and shaped somewhere else. My two grown son are no help at all. My little girl would help but she's more into protecting daddy. The people who live around where the boat would be built either don't like me, hate me or just want to kill me. I'm also in my 60's with a bad back and no real friends.

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> A rubber

raft would make more since but it's not wood and I always seem to get wet in a raft. The finished boat would also have to fit inside a Nissan Quest van for transportation. And then there is the condo board to worry about.