JEM Watercraft

Looking good.
I admire the neatness of you stitching. Nice work.

It's been slow building a lot of fishing. But I think I have enough panels on so the lines are starting to show for those that want to see;





Hopefully the bow will come in also. Looks like it will without too much trouble:



Be a week or so to get the last two panels on. Yep more fishing!

Got to get the fishing in!

Those bow panels should come together. Will take a little bullying. You could tighten the stitches a little each day to help it close easier...if that's a concern.

Some more photos. Have included more then enough, but want to make sure I'm doing OK, and I know some guys want to see her lines.

Overview:







Cross members off slightly?






Hard to see in photos. Looks like a sharper bend where the pliers are.

May need another cross section to soften it up?



Bow looks like it will close OK although some future tweeking obviously needed.



Anything specific on where I go with this build next?

You wanted fish for dinner?

Can I get fries with that and upsize the coffeeee

Lines are coming along nicely.

Watch out for the French - they might think it is the next Rainbow Warrior

Keep up the good work and I don't think you have too many photo's

Cheers Mike

Matt designed a bow jig for me that proved very useful in pulling together the bow and maintaining its alignment. You might find it useful as well.

Looking very good so far!

Dan,

Scott speaks wisely re the stem aligner. Have a look at his build thread re his big tandem SOT.

When you invert the hull to start glueing, make sure your two saw horses are level, then you can tweak the hull so that all four corners are resting on the tops of the saw horses. This will eliminate any little twist there might be.

Looking good so far mate.

BTW,

We would call that fish as a Bludger Trevally, some would call it as a Turrum. Great sport and notorious bait thieves. Hell of a catch from a kayak mate. Well done.

Keep stitching the main hull. Much of those minor misalignments will work themselves out.

Ok

But I don't have much left to do.

What are the next steps before tack gluing??

1. Do I close off the bow?

2. How about the lower half stern segment ? Do I stitch that now?

3. There is no upper piece BTW. Do I leave that loose for the moment?

4. Assuming yes to all the above, Wadefish instructions look like I flip it when it looks lined up right and adjust looking at outside of hull? Reflip and put tape on inside, flip again to tack glue from outside?

Stitch everything except any deck or longitudinal frames. Just the main shell and transom.

Then flip it over on level saw horses and start tightening all stitches snug. You'll start seeing everything come together.