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FREE BUILDING, RESTORATION & REPAIR with EPOXY Number 42 Spring 2016 In this issue EPOXYWORKS® Editor/Designer Jenessa Hilger Managing Editor/Copy Editor Grace Ombry In This Issue Contact/Subscriptions Darlene Auman Contributors Alan Gurski, Bruce Niederer, Craig VanDam Custom Boats - Part Two 1 Bousquet, Don Gutzmer, Greg Bull, Captain Hugh This is a two part series highlighting Luv N It, a custom Covert, Mike Barnard, Sam Magruder, and Susanne wooden boat, built at VanDam Boats in Boyne City, Altenburger Michigan. Epoxyworks is published twice a year by Gougeon Brothers, Inc., Bay City, MI, USA. A Tall Ship for Drummond Island 3 Captain Hugh Covert shares his plans to build Huron Product Number 000-605 Jewel, a schooner he plans to sail near Drummond © 2016 by Gougeon Brothers, Inc. Reproduction in any form, Island. in whole or in part, is expressly forbidden without the written consent of the publisher. Balance 4 After losing his old floor lamp to a game of hide-and- Epoxyworks is a registered trademark of Gougeon Brothers, Inc. seek, Alan Gurski decides to build a replacement based WEST SYSTEM, 105 Epoxy Resin, 205 Fast Hardener, 206 Slow Hardener, on the form of a fiddlehead fern. 410 Microlight, G/5, G/flex and Six10 are registered trademarks of Gougeon Brothers, Inc. 207 Special Clear Hardener, 209 Extra Slow Warm Temperature Bonding 7 Hardener, 422 Barrier Coat Additive, Episize and Scarffer are When temperatures rise, pot life falls. Here are some trademarks of Gougeon Brothers, Inc. tips to keep in mind this summer when working in warm temperatures. Subscriptions, US and Canada Epoxyworks subscriptions are FREE to US and Canadian Cockpit Sole Repair 8 addresses. Subscriptions do not expire. To start or stop Rotten cockpit soles are not an uncommon issue in a subscription, change address or subscribe for a friend, older boats. Technical Advisor Don Gutzmer tackles the complete and return the tear-out mailer or call 866- repair in a 1994 Four Winns. 937-8797 toll free. You may also subscribe via e-mail to [email protected] (be sure to include your Sea Ray 400 Seat Repairs 10 mailing address) or by filling out the subscription form Why buy a new seat when you can fix the old one? at epoxyworks.com or westsystem.com. Our mailing list With some help from G/flex and our Technical Staff, is strictly confidential and will not be sold or used for Sam Magruder repairs his old roto-molded seat shell to better than new. any other purpose. Applying Polyester Gelcoat Over Epoxy 13 Contribute to Epoxyworks Andy Miller, of Miller Boatworks, does his own testing If you have completed an interesting project, or to prove that polyester gelcoat can be used over epoxy. developed a useful technique or a practical or unusual use for epoxy, tell us and your fellow epoxy users about Hog Tide Project 16 it. Send a photograph or two, or e-mail digital photos Last summer Gougeon partnered with Sail Magazine to (about 300 dpi). Include a note describing the project create a fiberglass boat repair video series. One of those and how we may contact you. By sending photographs videos was on how to repair a rotten bulkhead. We you are granting permission to publish your photos cover the process in this article. in Epoxyworks and other Gougeon Brothers print and Strings' Float 18 online publications or promotional presentations. One of the keys to Strings' self-rescuing capabilities is Mailing address Epoxyworks the float on top of her mast. Technical Advisor Greg Bull P.O. Box 908 walks through how it was made. Bay City, MI 48707-0908 Shiloh, an Argie 15 20 Email [email protected] Sailor and model ship builder Craig Bousquet decides to try his hand at building his own sailing vessel, a stitch and glue Argie 15. Epoxyworks Online epoxyworks.com Browse back issues or look for specific topics. GADABOUT 22 Gadabout is a boat that was contracted by the Navy, designed to fit into a standard 40' shipping container, and had to be able to be built by non-boatbuilders. Part Two The finished boat was delivered to its new owners the summer of 2015. Here are the proud new owners of a Van Dam Custom original, doing what it was meant to do-having fun and LUV N IT! By Bruce Niederer In the previous issue of Epoxyworks, we looked at SYSTEM® 105 Resin/207 Special Clear Hardener, the start up process employed by the craftsmen and the custom-built stainless steel cutwater at Van Dam Custom Boats as they built LUV being fitted for installation. Cover Photo: N IT, affectionately referred to as the Limousine Nokomis, the sister in Part One. We ended our “tour” of this build Let’s pick up the build with the cabin top ship to LUV N IT. Photo taken by with the hull stained and pre-coated with WEST being installed… Michel Berryer LUV N IT Build 1 2 The Team at Van Dam often pre-stains and then coats components with WEST SYSTEM 105 Resin/207 The cockpit coamings in place. The multiple Special Clear Hardener before installation. Here the pre-laminated curved pieces that make up the aft pre-coated and sanded cabin sides are being fit. corner of the cabin have been installed. 3 4 Seating and storage are built and finished before they’re installed in the boat. The cabin trim, door jambs and window trim installed, and the cabin top primed. Number 42, Spring 2016 1 5 6 The engine room Dave Snyder is wired before fitting the the engines ceiling are set. Van boards on Dam does all the interior. wiring to ABYC standards with team members who are ABYC 7 certified. With the shaft logs installed and the bilge area 8 painted white, the first engine is lowered into place and set on custom aluminum mounts. 9 The neat installation of the engines and the shop-made exhaust pipes. The Now the focus becomes hours and hours of finish work. On area under the the left Trevor Brazell and Justin Halteman work on finishing engines is isolated, the interior of the cabin. On the right, the dash, steering wheel covered with 6 oz. seats and sliding windows are installed. cloth and WEST SYSTEM Epoxy, then 10 painted white. Van Dam is comfortable 11 with multiple finish Trevor Brazell pulls approaches and finish the tape on a freshly products. In this case, as painted waterline. on many of its new boats, The boat’s name Trevor Brazell sprays an gleams under the automotive clear coat over new clear coat. the top of the WEST SYSTEM 105/207 on the exterior. 12 Van Dam does its first of multiple 14 sea trials with engine hatches off and all mechanical and electrical systems accessible. This allows for ready monitoring of all components, assuring a trouble free experience for the customer. 13 This piece of mahogany was carved to fit custom LUV N IT is a great example of Van Dam Custom Boats' engraved crystal glasses dedication to fine boatbuilding and complete customer and decanters—a satisfaction. Every Van Dam boat is a result of sound good example of the engineering, high-quality materials, excellent craftsmanship level of detail Van Dam and long experience in boat building. To learn more, visit provides for their clients. their website: vandamboats.com 2 EPOXYWORKS A Tall Ship for Drummond Island By Captain Hugh Covert The current boat I have is in good shape, sails The sail plan is that of a typical 19th-century well and has been a lot fun for 17 years. It had schooner, gaff rig with four lower sails: jib, grown in the planning stage from 18 to 20, 22 staysail, a boomed foresail and mainsail. A and finally to 36 feet long on deck. But, while main topsail will be part of the working canvas, it grew much longer and somewhat wider, it making for about 1,700 square feet, with an didn't gain much in headroom. The need for a additional fisherman staysail for lighter winds. bigger boat with more room, fused with a desire to sail a tall ship with passengers, resulted in The hull will be planked in Douglas fir a plan for a new boat. I have been captain of (milled in Michigan) and sheathed in WEST several big sailing vessels around the U.S. and SYSTEM Epoxy (made in Bay City, Michigan) the Bahamas, and have built several boats, so and fiberglass cloth. The interior will have the idea of building one to sail close to home eastern white cedar, as well as birch and other seemed natural. hardwoods. The masts will be of wood as well. We’ll be carrying almost 14,000 pounds of Various limitations of water depth and haul out ballast, mostly lead, but also counting the weight facilities produced a plan for a boat 60 feet on of engines and gear such as anchor chain. deck, 14 feet wide, schooner rigged with two masts, a centerboard and shallow draft. The We plan to launch in Big Shoal Bay in the summer inspiration for the design is an early 19th-century of 2017, after building the hull and turning it over Baltimore Clipper-type Virginia pilot schooner the summer of 2016 to finish the interior. whose measurements were taken by a French naval engineer in 1820. The lines were later re-published She will be a very fast and stable Below are two views of the model by Howard Chapelle, the American naval architect boat, suited to cruising around built to the plan dimensions.

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