Six channels

Post by **speedneedle** » Thu Nov 19, 2009 9:33 pm

Hey Rick...

Sanding?

Ooooh, thats ME!

(hear hysterical sobbing...)

Josh
www.joshdowlingshape.com

Post by **pridmore** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 4:35 pm

hent read the whole post so hopefully not repeating stuff....

John Mills makes the best channell bottoms I ever seen ..along with AB, MIck Grace and Stumpy Wallace.....

another thought, whyis 6 the magic number for them ? I know other combos have been done, I have even seen a 12 channell done by Mick Grace......

Post by **speedneedle** » Sun Nov 22, 2009 6:30 pm

Hey MP...

MORE than 6???

Well, I did note Fanning with an 8 channel DHD in recent yrs...

So, we're working our way back, from 8 to 6 then 4 then ...

NONE!!!!

Woooooo....

Josh
www.joshdowlingshape.com

Post by **puurri** » Sun Nov 22, 2009 9:00 pm

^^ from that I gather you're not in favour of irrigation.

Post by **pridmore** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 6:08 am

puurri wrote:^^ from that I gather you're not in favour of irrigation.

nor corrugation ....is there any retro nostalgia involved in this interest in the clinker you think guys ???... next thing you know people will want to ride singles or twinnies again.....

Post by **Nick Carroll** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 12:54 pm

pridmore wrote:another thought, whyis 6 the magic number for them ?

OK. good one.

Pollard used to cut eight, ten and 12 channels into those Beetails of his. AB and Col Smith did the same with the super clinkers. eight or 10 seemed to be the mot juste...AB thought eight was gold but basically the more the merrier.

However! Glassing and sanding six channels is a big enough drama, imagine 8 or 10. That's right -- the production issues were ridiculous.

So they opted for six as a kind of compromise.

Post by **diggerdickson** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 2:23 pm

pridmore wrote:
puurri wrote:^^ from that I gather you're not in favour of irrigation.
nor corrugation ....is there any retro nostalgia involved in this interest in the clinker you think guys ???... next thing you know people will want to ride singles or twinnies again.....

I reckon your right there pridmore, Im now 42 and remember klinkers very fondly, if my mid life crisis is getting another clinker or trying to make one, thats fine by me

Post by **pridmore** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 6:02 pm

NC, you know of Millsy, Gracey or Stumpy at all ?, seen there channells ? think Millsy may have done a stint under AB at Hot Stuff in the eightys....Pollard taught Stumpyand Gracey ....

Post by **huie** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 7:01 pm

mark this whole disscusion is interesting.
in 81 i was doing starjamer millsy was there at some point dont remember exact time
i do know we were doing clinkers then & i know how i used to lay them out as a wooden boatbuilder
i layed them off the c/line
the first strake represents the garboard plank the rest are divided into the width nose to tail
fin position should be marked out first fins should be set on the edge of channels not in channels''

oddly enough this layout gives the same toe in as basicly what is mainstream to day.

i dont know who done them first nor do i care, prbly a byrne''

now remember this is just my way of doing it.

Post by **gibber** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 8:30 pm

huie, were you a boatbuilder/shipwright in a past life?
I could rabbet on about boat building all day

Post by **huie** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 8:58 pm

yea mate i worked for millcraft jack crowley clark round at hawthorne
a bit at norman wrights. all wooden adz & caulking irons
cooper clinch or roved red lead & pitch haaa''

bit different to day eh''

Post by **gibber** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 10:00 pm

Ahh the good old days

I did my time cold moulding and strip planking then got into carbon/Kevlar on foam. Also spent some time doing prepreg and nomex. Still did a bit of caulking and spiling planks on Slipways in between the rockstar jobs. Actually the slip days were probably the best times I had, better crew and owners that appreciated the work you did on their girls.

Post by **huie** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 1:33 pm

hey josh
i finaly got a spare bit of time & started poking around with this thing
but straight away the six didnt suit my fin placements so i hav gone down to 4
4 fins 4 channels here i go off on another mad bender ha''

Post by **speedneedle** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 8:42 pm

Hey Huie, that looks tidy...

I like the arse-tail.

Hey, did you ever see them with the clinker slanting the other way?

Josh
www.joshdowlingshape.com

Post by **pridmore** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 8:46 pm

4 x 4 bum-tail.....

is that one of the thin stringers Huie ???

Post by **huie** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 8:57 pm

yea josh prbly but i dont think i would do that
josh i started somthing when i got onto this ive only got my fin positions right over the last year or so
and to do 6 would of meant changing so i invented the 4x 4

prid yea .6 of a mil shes flexy few puckas in this one but dont matter just a tester.

Post by **huie** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 9:13 pm

fin positions aligned to the flow

Post by **pridmore** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 9:17 pm

dims ??? got a tester in mind ???

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