Pirogue by Ron Krueger, Wilmington, North Carolina
29 March 2010I made a couple of design changes. Mainly the water tight bulkheads on each end and a modification of the sheers.
28 June 2011 Update
Here are some photos showing the progress of my build.
Work table with the bottoms and one of the sides in the
background.
Next are the sides and bottom butted together.
I used some bricks to weight down the butt blocks when
assembling. Heres a hint, when using bricks or cinder blocks
for weights it would be wise to wrap them in plastic to avoid
the grit from shedding off on the wet epoxy.
Next we start stiching things together.
Fileting and various wood forming tools.
Glassing outside and seats.
The seats are filled with foam for floation.
I dry fitted the inner sheer in position, drilled holes for
temporary screws then epoxy the sheer and used temp screws
instead of clamps which maintained exact position of sheer.
The inner and outer sheers were 1/16 " higher than the
side planking edge and the resulting gap was filled with
thickend epoxy which sealed the plywood edge.
Outer sheer was dry fitted with clamps and the screw holes
were drilled in position. the sheer was then epoxed and
assembled using screws. If you look close you can see the gap
between the sheers which was filled with thickened epoxy to
seal plywood edge.
The bow and stern bulkheads are water tight and provide
storage and floation.
All finished and it floats. Thats me with the life jacket on.
Scale model just for fun.