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Building a Brown/Bieker Proa: February 2015
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Building a Brown/Bieker Proa. Construction of a 32 foot Jester Class Offshore Proa. Monday, February 16, 2015. The plans call for four hat-shaped brackets on the back of the main bulkheads to carry the akas. These are simple e-glass structures. Further structural steps on the akas will keep them from laying flat, so these need to be moulded now. Task time: 8 hours. Total project time: 490 hours. Saturday, February 14, 2015. I ended up laying battens on the sides to dam up fairing compound. I then san...
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Building a Brown/Bieker Proa: Dry Fitting first Ama Hull Panels
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Building a Brown/Bieker Proa. Construction of a 32 foot Jester Class Offshore Proa. Thursday, June 18, 2015. Dry Fitting first Ama Hull Panels. I got the bulkheads firmly attached and then moved on to the main ama panels. These were wired together at both bows and then dropped as a envelope over the bulkheads. Some of the bulkhead tabs required sanding to fit into the slots. The glass and epoxy had widened them. Future builders may want to skip glassing the tabs as much of it is sanded away.
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Building a Brown/Bieker Proa: Attaching Ama Panels
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Building a Brown/Bieker Proa. Construction of a 32 foot Jester Class Offshore Proa. Sunday, June 28, 2015. The last week has been a lot of gluing, filleting and sanding on the main ama planks. After wiring things into place, I did an initial glue up. Using a small syringe, I put a bead of thickened adhesive epoxy along the bulkhead plank intersections. A small syringe allows you to force a bit of epoxy between the two surfaces. Stem wired for glueing. Initial glue joint between bulkhead and plank. Dry Fi...
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Bieker Boats: February 2013
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Thursday, February 28, 2013. Shilshole 27 Rig Details. Rig details for the Shilshole 27 that is under construction across the Sound in Poulsbo are coming along. We've worked out the running back arrangement and designed the composite shroud chainplates. You can also see the pop-top in action in this view. See the Shilshole 27 build blog here. Wednesday, February 20, 2013. Riptide 41 approaches launch. The new Riptide 41 sees daylight! Friday, February 8, 2013. Wednesday, February 6, 2013.
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Building a Brown/Bieker Proa: October 2014
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Building a Brown/Bieker Proa. Construction of a 32 foot Jester Class Offshore Proa. Wednesday, October 29, 2014. Finishing Up Stay Bulkheads. I needed to seal the exposed "endgrain" of all the laminated layers. I decided to try using a slit section of carbon sleeve. The knit sleeves tend to wrap nicely around corners. Here is a shot of the wet-out carbon which took the shape pretty well. I then layed the final covering layer of cloth over the edge of the sleeve. Task time: 5 hours. There will be one ligh...
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Building a Brown/Bieker Proa: Ama Flipped
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Building a Brown/Bieker Proa. Construction of a 32 foot Jester Class Offshore Proa. Saturday, August 8, 2015. A couple weeks ago I flipped the ama over and started work on the interior. The keel panels needed taping with two or three layers of fiberglass. Fillets were applied to the keel seam and the bulkhead intersections. Task time: 110 hours. Total project time: 770 hours. August 10, 2015 at 8:54 AM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Building a Brown/Bieker Proa: Ama Bulkhead Alignment
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Building a Brown/Bieker Proa. Construction of a 32 foot Jester Class Offshore Proa. Monday, June 15, 2015. The new laser arrived and bulkhead alignment has started. The laser makes it pretty straightforward to align the panels relative to one another. June 16, 2015 at 10:38 AM. Im struggling to get a sense of scale. How far above (below since its upside down) the water. One is the horizontal beam? Are the reference lines scratched in my the CNC machine or have you drawn them on? June 16, 2015 at 8:40 PM.
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Building a Brown/Bieker Proa: July 2015
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Building a Brown/Bieker Proa. Construction of a 32 foot Jester Class Offshore Proa. Saturday, July 11, 2015. The ama has been making good progress. The keel panels went on. Next the seams got cleaned up and filled where the wires had been. The wire holes were closed. A main task before moving on was fairing the chines, bow and keel. Here is a bow filled and capped with a thin strip of glass. I wanted to fully close the seam. Here is the glass draped and partially smoothed. Task time: 50 hours.
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Building a Brown/Bieker Proa: September 2014
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Building a Brown/Bieker Proa. Construction of a 32 foot Jester Class Offshore Proa. Thursday, September 25, 2014. Mainsheet Beam Cores Finished. The batten flexed across nails. The finished template attached to the blank. The blank cut and sanded close to the template. Finished cores after trimming, rounding over the edges and adding nubbins. These are now ready for the first layers of carbon uni. Task time: 6 hours. Total project time: 294 hours. Labels: CVG Doug Fir. Flush trim router bit. I got these ...
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Building a Brown/Bieker Proa: June 2015
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Building a Brown/Bieker Proa. Construction of a 32 foot Jester Class Offshore Proa. Sunday, June 28, 2015. The last week has been a lot of gluing, filleting and sanding on the main ama planks. After wiring things into place, I did an initial glue up. Using a small syringe, I put a bead of thickened adhesive epoxy along the bulkhead plank intersections. A small syringe allows you to force a bit of epoxy between the two surfaces. Stem wired for glueing. Initial glue joint between bulkhead and plank. I got ...
