Re: Jotun Penguard HB and Hardtop HB advice, please

Posted by Michael Rogers on
URL: http://uk-hbbr-forum.61.s1.nabble.com/Jotun-Penguard-HB-and-Hardtop-HB-advice-please-tp4013564p4025388.html

Hi Eric

I'm sorry, I don't have any pics of the build - meant to, but never got round to it. I'm not sure if a photo of the current state - painting in the last stages - would help. If you think it might, let me know. My problem is not with a camera - I used to be fairly proficient in the good old roll film days. It's all this digital stuff, and the interface with my computer (with which I have a love-hate, mostly the latter, relationship). However, as I said , let me know. There are some pics of the build process of the prototype Trouper on the Swallowboats website which might help.

I don't know if a description will help. The Trouper has a flat bottom section (9 mm), which is about 2 ft wide at its widest amidships and tapers to a point at both ends. The after end is just at the lowest point of the transom. At the forward end, it comes to a point just short of the forefoot. The lowest strake on either side is 6 mm, stitched/taped to the edges of the flat floor piece except for about a foot at the bow where the two sides are pulled and stitched/taped together forward of the flat floor: this process curls the bottom strakes upwards at this point and forms the beginning of the forefoot. The remaining 3 strakes either side are 4 mm, and their front edges are pulled together to form the bow. The lowest 4 mm strake (the second strake up, counting the lowest 6 mm one) is stitched/taped to the outer edge of the lowest strake along its lower/inner edge, but its upper edge lapstrakes with the lower edge of the next strake up, and the remaining joins up to the sheer strake are lapstrake. The stempost is faux in that it is epoxied onto the curve of the bow, and fared in: around the forefoot it tapers away to the flat bottom.

Clear as mud? Hope it helps. Try the website pics as well. I really will try to post a picture of the finished boat at least. Flat bottom notwithstanding, she is very pretty, and I hope will be fairly stable as well (must be an improvement in this respect on my present boat, which is very tender - also very pretty!).

Cheers           Michael