Frej – First glimpse of the new Boat

By
ATH
– December 19, 2018Posted in: Bootsbau, Frej - Kayak 4 Teens, Seekajak
Today I picked up the Aluminum Profile for the strongback. I decided to go for this Out-of-the-shelf solution to save myself a lot of time. Instead of building a straight […]

Today I picked up the Aluminum Profile for the strongback. I decided to go for this Out-of-the-shelf solution to save myself a lot of time. Instead of building a straight one and mess around with routing, cutting and glueing I bought the following profile:

Profile for the strongback

This Profile is quite heavy (approx. 30kg) and sturdy. After finishing the last business call for 2018 I could not resist and rushed down to the garage and lined up the sections. 2/10th of oversize for the cutouts is definitvely the lower limit. The sections fit well but tight. It took me 30 Minutes to get all roughly aligned.

The result looks like this:

Frej – Front (Section 1 & 2 have a smaller cutout)
Frej – Center –  View from the Bow
Frej – Tail view (squezed between BBQ and Bikes)

Next I have to set up the garage and turn it into a multipurpose Bike-Store-Boat-Building-Facility (BSBBF). And I have to pickup fine grain wood to build the boat. I will follow Ulf’s path regarding the wood. Cheap but fine instead of bed-cove milled. The boat will be colored so this doesn’t matter anyway.

Some Details:

Frej – Profile centerline matches waterline perfectly
Frej – Sections 4-7
Frej – Bow (Strongback need to be chopped)

I am pretty excited how the whole thing turend out so far! More to come soon! Best Regards,
Axel

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