{"id":504,"date":"2022-03-24T23:25:25","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T23:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hpwd.co.uk\/theslowboatbuilder\/?p=504"},"modified":"2022-03-29T16:25:27","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T16:25:27","slug":"first-planks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hpwd.co.uk\/theslowboatbuilder\/index.php\/2022\/03\/24\/first-planks\/","title":{"rendered":"First Planks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Finally on to planking. Strip planking of course, and the clue is in the name. Each plank is 30mm wide so there will be a lot of them. The first strip, shown below is fixed a defined height from the deck shelf. This allows (according to the plans) for the whole hull to the planked without the need to change direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And here is the first plan on the Starboard side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Adding the second plank (below), brings home that I need more clamps. I use pretty much all my clamps on one side. Boat builders have a 100% reliable method for estimating the number of required clamps. You review the boat size and build method. You count your stock of clamps. You realise you definitely need more. 100% of the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My additional clamps have not yet arrived, so I am limited to working one side again. Below, I added 2 planks in one session, so on a good day, I should be able to add 4 planks, 2 either side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I estimate I need about 108 planks to cover the hull – 103 left to go. If I average 3 planks per day and say 2 working days per week taking account of holidays etc. that makes 17 weeks. I will be planking to the end of July. I wish I hadn’t done that calculation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Finally on to planking. Strip planking of course, and the clue is in the name. Each plank is 30mm wide so there will be a lot of them. The first strip, shown below is fixed a defined height from the deck shelf. This allows (according to the plans) for the whole hull to the planked… Continue reading First Planks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpwd.co.uk\/theslowboatbuilder\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpwd.co.uk\/theslowboatbuilder\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpwd.co.uk\/theslowboatbuilder\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpwd.co.uk\/theslowboatbuilder\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpwd.co.uk\/theslowboatbuilder\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hpwd.co.uk\/theslowboatbuilder\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512,"href":"https:\/\/hpwd.co.uk\/theslowboatbuilder\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpwd.co.uk\/theslowboatbuilder\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpwd.co.uk\/theslowboatbuilder\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpwd.co.uk\/theslowboatbuilder\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}