Octavia

[martin]

Chris, just to let you know, Octavia is doing great. I’m rowing twice a week at present. Here are a couple of recent photos.
Martin

[Chris Waite]

Just to fill-in....

Martin also sent me this as an email and I replied that I'm delighted he has made contact and that Octavia is getting out regularly.  He's going to try and set up some pictures of the rudder that was fitted after I sold her on.  He has apparently removed the sliding seat that was similarly fitted after I sold her, as being too noisy.

Martin, does she still separate into her two halves and by way of connection, are the outrigger wings still removable?

Chris  

[Timmo]

And post a picture of the transom please. I followed that transom for several days (paddling a canoe, so able to view the transom as I progressed) as Chris rowed Octavia on her maiden voyage and became very fond of it. I judge it a thing of beauty!

Tim

On 30 May 2020, at 11:33, Chris Waite [via UK HBBR Forum] <[hidden email]> wrote:

Just to fill-in....

Martin also sent me this as an email and I replied that I'm delighted he has made contact and that Octavia is getting out regularly.  He's going to try and set up some pictures of the rudder that was fitted after I sold her on.  He has apparently removed the sliding seat that was similarly fitted after I sold her, as being too noisy.

Martin, does she still separate into her two halves and by way of connection, are the outrigger wings still removable?

Chris  

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[martin]

Yes the boat still comes apart, but is now held together with bolts and wing nuts
The removable/reverseable wings are a great feature, it only fits in my shed if I take them off. This also shows the rudder, it works well, and looks ok from a distance.
Something else, my home built trailer suspension, based on a lotus 16 rear set up, the units are from a junior motoX bike
Lastly our neighbours dog loves boating

[Timmo]

That last picture... that's the view I remember (well, the other way up!)

On 30 May 2020, at 15:38, martin [via UK HBBR Forum] <[hidden email]> wrote:

Yes the boat still comes apart, but is now held together with bolts and wing nuts
The removable/reverseable wings are a great feature, it only fits in my shed if I take them off. This also shows the rudder, it works well, and looks ok from a distance.
Something else, my home built trailer suspension, based on a lotus 16 rear set up, the units are from a junior motoX bike
Lastly our neighbours dog loves boating

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[Chris Waite]

Excellent Martin; thanks for the update

I intend my next build to be a slightly chunkier skiff of the same length - a cross between Octavia and my current little lugger, Polly Wee.  I'm hoping to combine this -



With this -



And get a sixteen-foot, camping one of these -



Chris

[Grldtnr]

Hope it will have Octavia's classy arse!
Gerald.

[Chris Waite]

Interesting you should say that Gerald

Octavia's terrific tush (??) was designed using a dinner plate - first the depth and then the breadth.... were marked in the form of a 'T', then the concave bit down to the skeg is part of a circle, to be 'seamlessly' joined by a circular convex bit leading up to the gunwale.  'Reflected' in the other side, it came out like this -

 

 

Talk about tortured ply, she was built in Arundel and you could hear the screams in Brighton....

And that was just me

The forthcoming skiff is due to be called 'Curvy Mabel', but despite that, she will probably not have the full wineglass transom effect.  The transom will have to be rather wider to take the turning blocks for the 'Pedyuloh' and the hull-shape is one of a range of Christopher Waite's Premise DSD's - dead simple designs.  However, I may yet be tempted to have the odd, er - perpetration with the ply

We'll have to wait and see

Also out of interest, here is the midship's section of Octavia inside that of Curvy Mabel -



Room for a snooze do you think?

Chris  

[Grldtnr]

Curvey Mabel, looks a bit like that Scots bird ,Katie Beardie?
Tell me if it's not so?
Room for simple CeeDubb Lug rig, ala' Matt Layden, must shut my yap, coz I don't have the beginnings of an idea about boat design!

[Chris Waite]

The front end of all four boats is almost identical Gerald

I try to produce designs that maximize the use of a standard ply sheet.  Foreshortened in the lugger, but Octavia was designed to use two sheets of ply and is based on eight identical half planks, with only a triangular sliver taken off amidships and the ends trimmed to form the, er, ends.  Out of the two sheets there is probably less than two square foot of leftovers.  Kaytie B runs aft into being a canoe and has a low enough freeboard to be paddled, again the hull (shell) itself comes from two sheets.

The lugger and the skiff are designed on the requirement for a flat bottom boat that doesn't slam in a seaway, sits upright on a beach and has only two full length seams - one at each chine for simplicty of construction.  The principle (or Premise) is that within a certain set of parameters, you can make the hull as long or short, as wide or narrow and as tall or flat, as suits your needs.

We are beginning to get into 'Topic Drift' territory.  If you want to go into any more detail, would you care to re-title and start afresh?

Chris