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I thought I would pass on some little things I have learned in the last year, before I forget them, that helped me working on my 836.
I was just working on my 1946 Century Sea Maid dual cockpit mahogany boat. When I got the boat it was what looked like a Christmas tree
(bottom front to back and right to left structures) with no needles, a pile of cut wood parts and the modern equivalent of the Rosetta Stone, a sheet of paper with all the dimensions from the centerline for all the parts.
One of the odd things I got with the boat was a roll of Christmas wrapping paper. I wondered why that was there and as I unrolled it, it had tracings of all the parts that were missing. Turns out that it is very good for making tracings. It is wide, it is very long, it is bare on the back, it is easy to roll up and at the after Christmas sales it is really cheap.
I intend to use it for rebuilding the roof in the 836, laying out the running boards/aprons, floor boards, upholstery, door panels, etc.
Merry Christmas
That is a great idea and the wrapping paper with the squares on the back my be even better since you can use the lines to get parts lined up.
Bill,
I restored wooden boats in the ’70’s & 80’s because people were giving them away and I couldn’t afford the old cars I wanted. I often used cardboard to make pattern if I didn’t have the rotted pieces to suffice. The XMAS paper idea with Craig’s addition is brilliant!
I sold my last runabout in ’92 and switched to cars because the time for maintenance versus use time to use was so much better in the upper Midwest.
Merry Christmas!
Dave
I buy the roll of mask-off paper that the local body shop supply place sells. about 30 inches wide and a large roll is around 30 bucks.
Use it and the blue painter’s tape a LOT on my projects…..
Ok, my wife took on the crowds and ended up with a roll of paper 40″ x 30 feet with 1 x 1 squares on the inside. $4.95″