[fiddlefish]

Awesome, keep up the good work and posts. Following!

 

[Txjohn]

I'm no boat builder but I've bent some wood . Quartered , straight grain wood will bent better than flat sawn. Looking at the broken pieces , I can see the break is following the grain . I'd do a glued-up bent lamination if I couldn't fine straight grain wood( steam helps too) . My apologies if this seems condescending. I barely skimmed through this thread

 

[Jeremiah]

I'm no boat builder but I've bent some wood . Quartered , straight grain wood will bent better than flat sawn. Looking at the broken pieces , I can see the break is following the grain . I'd do a glued-up bent lamination if I couldn't fine straight grain wood( steam helps too) . My apologies if this seems condescending. I barely skimmed through this thread

Thanks. It is what I had. It wasn’t ideal but I thought I could make it work. I am going to cut some thinner pieces and do a lamination.

 

[Jeremiah]

Haven’t posted in a long time but have had some recent progress. I’ll post some pictures to get caught up on the progress.

May 27, 2020

 

[Jeremiah]

June 11, 2020

 

[Jeremiah]

June 14, 2020

 

[Jeremiah]

June 17, 2020

 

[Jeremiah]

June 21, 2020

 

[Jeremiah]

Fast forward.
Glass starts soon. Hopefully this week.

 

[Jeremiah]

Thursday night she got glassed

 

[Rollbar]

Very nice!

Osprey 18

Powerboat designs for Sportfishing and Cruising from designer Timm Smith

www.smithmarinedesign.com

 

[Jeremiah]

More progress on the hull.

 

[Jeremiah]

Mahogany bright work installed on the transom with first layer of epoxy.

 

[Charles Thies]

Just curious: are these plans available so they could be loaded into a CNC cutter to make life much simpler and easier and less time consuming and cut perfect?

I had mine all cut on a CNC machine. It does make it a lot easier

 

[Jeremiah]

I had mine all cut on a CNC machine. It does make it a lot easier

That would have saved time. Well beyond that now. 😁

 

[Jeremiah]

Second coat of Alexseal high build primer is on. I plan on flipping the hull before painting any further.

 

[Jeremiah]

Boat flipped last Friday night. Thanks to Tim, Tom, Billy, Jack, Tyler, Parker and Connor. It was a lot lighter than I thought it would be.

 

[Jeremiah]

Worked on cutting out the braces over the weekend.

Before

After

 

[Jeremiah]

I’m thinking about deviating from the design and raising the front deck by 1/2” or 3/4” to give the boat a subtle Carolina yacht look. I would taper the the deck down until flush in the back. Not sure if it’s worth the effort or the extra weight (although it shouldn’t add that much). It will also give me the ability to beef up the deck overhang which will extend out about 4 extra inches at the widest spot in the front. What does everyone think?

 

[Charles Thies]

Looks amazing! I bought mine CNC’d the frame parts and just getting started.