Re: Refresher on Design #639 WILLIAM D. JOCHEMS

Posted by: oddbjorn.jonassen@... oddbjornjonassen
Date: Fri May 1, 2015 1:18 am ((PDT))

Hi all,
I would like to take this opportunity to inform you that I have started to build the William D. Jochems. I have formerly built the Elegant Punt, the Gloucester Light Dorry and the Diablo.
I ordered the plans two or three years ago and the work is progressing slowly. I started with building the spars and is now varnishing these. I used the "Birds Mouth" technique to make the spars.
I have also finished the rudder and the leeboards. The next task will be the bulkheads and then I can start on the hull proper.
At this pace It may seem unlikely that this boat ever will be completed but I think it will - in a couple of years.
By the way this boat is also being built in Norway.

I am very impressed--especially by your willingness to begin with the hardest and least rewarding components. I've built many boats, and always start with the hull. When it looks like a boat, I am propelled through the more tedious aspects.

I am currently building a Bolger-inspired boat, which is basically a large-ish flat-bottomed skiff, with cabin forward and a motorwell aft. The hatches over the motorwell and the rudder/tiller combination has been--BY FAR--the slowest developing part of the boat. But painting the rudder today, and the final sanding before finishing of the tiller, so daylight approaches.

-Chris

good luck. I heard tell of a guy building a boat and it took him 120
earth years. Some people build for years but I cant wait that long. I
get impatient. This is why the logest boat I ever built was 14 feet.
Now I stapel gun a small hull in a day and like to be on the water in
2 months. Some guys enjoy building more than sailing. Me I really
enjoy design. Then get her build and check it out. We are all
different. Its the difference in trees that make a forest more
interesting than an orchard. Chief redelk

Hi all,
I would like to take this opportunity to inform you that I have started to build the William D. Jochems. I have formerly built the Elegant Punt, the Gloucester Light Dorry and the Diablo.

I ordered the plans two or three years ago and the work is progressing slowly. I started with building the spars and is now varnishing these. I used the "Birds Mouth" technique to make the spars.

I have also finished the rudder and the leeboards. The next task will be the bulkheads and then I can start on the hull proper.

At this pace It may seem unlikely that this boat ever will be completed but I think it will - in a couple of years.

By the way this boat is also being built in Norway.

Regards
Oddbjorn