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Re: Cheaters Skiff

Posted: 16 Jun 2020, 00:23
by peatop
11x6m and l have a single car garage :lol: but my only welder is a inverter tig/stick my folder is whatever form l can find and a hammer, lathe yeah l have a cheap wood one and my mill is a file, die grinder, 5", 9" and drill l always seemed to work somewhere that had all the equipment needed to fabricate anything l wanted if needed but as l don't work anymore l really miss not having access to all the turning equipment :cry: but most of it a can do without but l wouldn't mind and ac tig for aluminum ;)
Im bringing home a larger garden shed on the weekend so that will make a mass of room in my garage and hopefully make it fireproof so l can then weld inside instead of in the driveway.

Im looking forward to the writeups for your next projects :thumbsup:

Re: Cheaters Skiff

Posted: 16 Jun 2020, 06:49
by cheaterparts
peatop wrote:
l wouldn't mind and ac tig for aluminum ;)
Im bringing home a larger garden shed on the weekend so that will make a mass of room in my garage and hopefully make it fireproof so l can then weld inside instead of in the driveway.
My aluminium Tig is an old syncowave 250 Miller - quite a larger older machine but it's bullet proof I could do with a new water cooled touch mine leaks water these days
and I dont think it's worth fixing

as for a garden shed mine is 5.5 x 3.7 metre as you can't have to many sheds

Re: Cheaters Skiff

Posted: 16 Jun 2020, 08:00
by peatop
To many tools? Never heard such a thing lol the garden shed is for the camping gear and wood tools, the metal fab tools get the inside treatment :thumbsup:
But thats just 2 of my trades l think l might split the rest between the 2 sheds, garage anything for metal, other shed everything else lol

Re: Cheaters Skiff

Posted: 01 Aug 2020, 21:59
by cheaterparts
ok a bit of an update things have been progressing again and not because of the Wuhan Bat Flu lock downs but more because it's been a bit warmer to get out in the shed
so the main things I've been doing is to get all the floor bracing in I decided to go with sealed under floor for floatation with 3 separate sealed spaces with separate drain bungs - the centre section will have a kill tank and I'm looking at options for a live bait tank
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I drilled out these floor braces to save a bit of weight
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and here they are lightened a bit and epoxied into the bottom and the inside of the hull has also been glassed
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the hole cut in the floor section at the stearn will have a lowered floor that fits the fuel tank with just a simple strap that should keep it from sliding around
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the floor sections cut in only the front 800 mm needed to be narrowed about 50 mm right at the front and of cause shaped up a bit with a block plane to fit the curve of the hull
the centre section will aslo need a hole cut about 700 mm x 400 mm for access to the kill tank - I'll probably fit a seat above this
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and I ran out of clamps today putting strips along the top of the floor bracings ( something to give extra glue surface )

so thats a progress report of the skiff - with a bit of luck I'll be gluing down floor sections by the week end

Re: Cheaters Skiff

Posted: 02 Aug 2020, 12:11
by peatop
Ran out of clamps :lol: I bought 2 packs of 3 the other day, and along with my remaining sash clamps i now have maybe 10, looking good Cheater, how much do you think the total cost of the build will come too?

Re: Cheaters Skiff

Posted: 02 Aug 2020, 14:11
by cheaterparts
peatop wrote: how much do you think the total cost of the build will come too?
good question I think I have used or have still in stock 6 x 6 mm bunnings marine ply @ $ 66 per sheet - 1 x 9 mm bunnings marine ply about $ 84 from memory
some hard wood for around the gunnels and probably $ 500 for epoxy and glass

so that around a grand + sanding discs and other consumables so only a guess under $ 1500 - so by the time I pick up a S/H 9.9 or 15 hp Johno it should be around 2 grand ready to fish

and of cause hours of amusement building it


all just guesses though

Re: Cheaters Skiff

Posted: 02 Aug 2020, 19:42
by erik the viking
cheaterparts wrote:
peatop wrote: how much do you think the total cost of the build will come too?
good question ..................................
all just guesses though
Don't keep guesssing, you might surprise the bank manager and then what? :D
It's apparently easy to disguise the 'little bits' each week rather than the $3K up front.
Notice the little covid mark up eh? :yahoo:

Re: Cheaters Skiff

Posted: 02 Aug 2020, 20:01
by cheaterparts
erik the viking wrote: Don't keep guesssing, you might surprise the bank manager and then what? :D
It's apparently easy to disguise the 'little bits' each week rather than the $3K up front.
I don't have problems with the minister for finance and the cost will be close to my guess @ $ 1500 not counting my time of cause but then that's the thing with these projects it gives me something to do

no more fishing for the next 6 weeks means plenty of time to work on the project

Re: Cheaters Skiff

Posted: 03 Aug 2020, 10:13
by peatop
looking good Cheater, $1500 for a few months entertainment then a skiff at the end! thats not a bad deal :thumbsup:

Re: Cheaters Skiff

Posted: 03 Aug 2020, 10:30
by laneends
Any idea of what the final draft of this will be so you can work out the westernport tides you can work with?

Are you sorting a special trailer for it?