Building Suite Fourteen
Building Nils Andersson's Int'l Offshore - 14 SUITE FOURTEEN
SMALL BOAT BIG THRILL
The plans package comes with computer generated
offsets and coordinates, no lofting is necessary.
The hull panels are composite,
epoxy, 3 mm plywood, Divinycell, or equal polyester foam, coated with 5oz. Kevlar
cloth and 4oz. fiberglass cloth. The plywood and foam sheet materials are laminated
flat, using epoxy. The panels are then stitched together, using nylon cable ties.
The stitches are pulled from the outside and the inside, plywood joints, are filleted
and fiberglass taped. The stitches are then cut on the outside. The hull is then
coated with the Kevlar and fiberglass, laid up in one single phase (that one is exhausting).
The same coating procedures are repeated on the deck( not as exhausting).
Bulkheads
and ring frames lined up
Stringer
ready to be glued
Bottom
panels stitched together
All
panels stitched together, the empty false stem will be filled with 2 part pour in
foam
The
keel panel is the only one laminated up of solid plywood. All the other are composite
foam and ply.
The empty hull, with the keel blade sticking up. The ballast tanks will be attached
to the freeboards later and covered by the deck panels.
Computer
printout templates glued to laminated carbon fiber sheet, to be cut to shape for
the rudders.
Finishing
the bottom
The
moment you have waited for.
Was it worth it? You bet it was.
Plans include computer printouts of offsets
and coordinates, as well as line and construction drawings. A complete, newly revised,
instruction booklet, includes color photographs from the construction of the prototype.
To order a plans package, send check or money order of $150.-US currency
($160 from over seas) to:
Nils Andersson
4225 Chamoune Avenue, #305
San
Diego, CA 92115
USA
To order study plans: Send check or money order
of $5.- ($10.- from over seas) to the above address.
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