Why? In most cases a quick sanding in preparation for painting will remove the unfairness you may have detected, because the unfairness is more often only as unfair as the thickness of your paint layers. He cautions that before attacking a hull with epoxy fairing compounds as is commonly done on steel boats, the owner should hold off. Brent has mentioned in his book that even if you do see a small amount of unfairness after the first paint job (the human eye can detect unfairness to a very high degree), just wait until the next time you paint. This hull was not faired with anything other than paint. I'm not sure if it is the best picture to show my point, but if you look along the side of the hull, you can see no ripples or distortions in the reflective surface. The attached photo of Moonraven, a 36 footer do Swain's design in Comox, BC, shows how fair the hull can be. The use of large pieces of steel for each side saves a lot of welding, which in turn saves a lot of distortion from welding heat. Once the hull is welded together, there is no need to do any fairing with putties the way traditional steel boats are. Bending it into a curve, you'll see no humps and hollows. For an example of this, take any long stiff length of material such as an aluminum ruler, a wooden batten, or even a strip of plexiglass. It is a material of uniform consistency, so will bend into a mathematically perfect curve. This means that the full length (31' to 40') piece of steel for each side (each side is built on its own initially) acts as a very long "batten" (see "building sequence" in the photos section of the group). I don't have access to any information from the registrant, since it is Yahoo which hosts to group's space.įairness: The hulls pull together in a fair curve simply because there are no transverse frames welded to the skin to distort it from a) heat distortion and b) thickening the hull where there frame would be welded on, making the skin material non-uniform. Registration on yahoo group: In the same way people register on this forum, I set it up this way in order to keep a lid on spam and viral attacks from anonymous e-mailers. I'll attempt to answer a few questions as well as I can: I folded it up and then he wrote his name on the back.Thanks for alerting me to the responses here, Stephen, as I had not looked here for awhile, and had no idea of the activity happening here! My son decided to write “Daddy” and two hearts on his version. Step 10: Fold the base behind at the solid line to form a stand. Step 9: Double fold one of the sails to make it shorter, then tuck it inside the boat. Step 8: Open out the triangle from the middle at the top, so that the hull is unfolded. Step 7: Fold the right hand side of the hull behind to form a triangle. Step 6: Fold up the lower left corner so that the number four covers the number three. Step 5: Fold up the lower half so that you can see the number three in the top centre, and the decorated hull. Step 4: Fold the number one corner into the centre, then fold the number two into the centre. Step 3: Turn the paper over, so the decorated side is at the back, and the number one is top left (but face down). Step 2: Fold the square into quarters and open it out again. Step 1: Cut out the square indicated with dotted lines. To fold it, pleased find the tutorial below (I used letter stickers for this version). If they’re going to write words, make sure that the number 2 is right at the top as they view the paper. The outlined shape is the hull, so this is the part that your child needs to decorate. To start, download the SAILBOAT CARD TEMPLATE from my Craftulate Store and print it onto white paper. I thought some of you might like to try it too – because even if you don’t know someone who loves boats it might be useful for a transportation theme! I used a basic origami technique to make the boat, but adapted it so that it could be decorated by kids in advance of folding. To celebrate this new adventure, my son and I made a sailboat card for Father’s Day. My husband has had a boat for many years, but this spring was the first time that our son has wanted to join him on the boat! The following post contains affiliate links, which means that at no extra cost to you I can make a tiny bit of money to help support this blog. This origami sailboat card was a joint effort between me and my son!
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