The rangeley boat is a guideboat that was developed in the mid to late 1800's for fishing in the large lakes of western maine. it needed to be fast under oars (this was pre-outboard motor, of course), good in rough water and stable enough to stand up in and fly cast.. The boat now has four strakes the five plies in the planking material are good indicators of the amount of bevel attained, and once several short sections of the rolling bevel are established along the planking, the remaining areas can be planed, using the plies as a guide.. We were originally going to make the decks out of 3mm plywood, but instead decided to use solid mahogany in order to be able to fair the decks a bit without worrying about cutting through the top veneer of the plywood..
Here's a photo of all the little bits, starting to shine a bit after three coats of varnish. yesterday we coated all the interior plank edges with epoxy, but the cool weather has slowed the cure rate, and it wasn't ready to sand today, as we had planned.. Building a glued lapstrake rangeley lake boat page 5: laminating inner stems and lining off the planking. the foward inner stem being glued up the stems on the original boat were natural-grown crooks, which is a nice way to go for strength and simplicity. we're a little short on crooks, so the choices are either to build up the stems from. The rangeley, is named after rangeley lake. which is located in the western half of the state of maine. around the turn of the 20th century, with the advent of tourism, and the increase in rail service, came the need to ferry people around the lake and to other small communities..
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