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Polaris by Occre Build Log

Nice work! Your garboard currently extends much too far forward, it will throw off the run of the planking. I would recommend ending it maybe around the fore edge of the fore bulkhead.
 
What @JacquesCousteau said.

Now Occre is a bit weird in that they have you plank the whole thing and then add the keel after. Typically there would be a keel with a rabbet that you plank into. In any case, when looking directly on from the side. try to line the garboard up to be a straight line from stern to bow and not curve upward.
 
mberg said:
What @JacquesCousteau said.

Now Occre is a bit weird in that they have you plank the whole thing and then add the keel after. Typically there would be a keel with a rabbet that you plank into. In any case, when looking directly on from the side. try to line the garboard up to be a straight line from stern to bow and not curve upward.
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Cool. Thanks
 
mberg said:
What @JacquesCousteau said.

Now Occre is a bit weird in that they have you plank the whole thing and then add the keel after. Typically there would be a keel with a rabbet that you plank into. In any case, when looking directly on from the side. try to line the garboard up to be a straight line from stern to bow and not curve upward.
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JacquesCousteau, I am also building an Occre kit which tells one to finish both layers of planking and then add the keel like you say. Before starting this, I did the NRG Half Hull Planking Project kit to get some experience of spiling and fitting planks. In that one learned to cut a rabbet first and plank into that as you mention. Would that work with a double planked hull? I'm trying to visualise. Can you fit both layers of planking into one (larger?) rabbet... would you need two separate rabbets, close together, one for each layer? Or would you do the first layer of planking which sort of compensated for the lack of frames, then fit the keel with a rabbet, and then plank the second layer into the rabbet?? Or better to simply follow the instructions ( which I'm already tending to veer away from!).
 
embojo said:
JacquesCousteau, I am also building an Occre kit which tells one to finish both layers of planking and then add the keel like you say. Before starting this, I did the NRG Half Hull Planking Project kit to get some experience of spiling and fitting planks. In that one learned to cut a rabbet first and plank into that as you mention. Would that work with a double planked hull? I'm trying to visualise. Can you fit both layers of planking into one (larger?) rabbet... would you need two separate rabbets, close together, one for each layer? Or would you do the first layer of planking which sort of compensated for the lack of frames, then fit the keel with a rabbet, and then plank the second layer into the rabbet?? Or better to simply follow the instructions ( which I'm already tending to veer away from!).
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I personally find having a keel/rabbet in place really useful for clamping and getting the planks properly lined up, although I haven't built anything done the other way. Of your options, I'm not sure if a double-wide rabbet will work, because I feel like the planks will just extend to the front edge. Maybe you could clamp them to leave space? Alternately, you could leave off the rabbet for the first layer, cutting it so that it will only apply to the second layer. Doing just a single layer of planking would be simplest, if trickier to get a fair hull.
 
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