Boat building

At military funerals, it is a 3 round volley usually by an odd number of rifles. Even if 7 riflemen fire three times, it is not a 21 gun salute. Historically, the three round volley signaled then end of a temporary truce called to collect the dead from the battlefield. Also used to signal the funeral is concluded and the burial detail is ready to resume fighting.

A 21 gun salute is for heads of state (presidents, monarchs, etc). It is a naval tradition fired by the big guns/artillery. Land based canons/artillery is sometimes used when not near the water.
 
trc65 said:
At military funerals, it is a 3 round volley usually by an odd number of rifles. Even if 7 riflemen fire three times, it is not a 21 gun salute. Historically, the three round volley signaled then end of a temporary truce called to collect the dead from the battlefield. Also used to signal the funeral is concluded and the burial detail is ready to resume fighting.

A 21 gun salute is for heads of state (presidents, monarchs, etc). It is a naval tradition fired by the big guns/artillery. Land based canons/artillery is sometimes used when not near the water.
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then a 21 gun salute for the boat build is in order
 
trc65 said:
At military funerals, it is a 3 round volley usually by an odd number of rifles. Even if 7 riflemen fire three times, it is not a 21 gun salute. Historically, the three round volley signaled then end of a temporary truce called to collect the dead from the battlefield. Also used to signal the funeral is concluded and the burial detail is ready to resume fighting.

A 21 gun salute is for heads of state (presidents, monarchs, etc). It is a naval tradition fired by the big guns/artillery. Land based canons/artillery is sometimes used when not near the water.
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This is right. Went through multiple 21 gun salutes at naval academy. Except they did not use guns, they were cannons. 3-4" and extremely loud. I highly recommend ear protection.
 
Enough of this shooting of guns and cannons. How about Just get a bottle of good champagne. Because the boat is pointless and has no bow to break it on we get to drink the booze.
 
sprucegum said:
Enough of this shooting of guns and cannons. How about Just get a bottle of good champagne. Because the boat is pointless and has no bow to break it on we get to drink the booze.
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Did you settle on a name for it? Gotta have a name before you can christen it.
 
Nose and aft boxes are epoxied, fileted, and glassed in, including longitudinal bulkheads in the rear. Still need to make the motor well, but that will come later. I've also fileted and glassed the central hull joint and roughed out a bulkhead to go just in front of the #6 bulkhead, which will allow me to extend the rear deck a little for a seat/poling platform - as well as to tuck away the main battery and house an electrical panel.

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I need to make the #3 bulkhead (had a temporary for the upside down build since I wanted to move it rearward to extend the front deck), then will pull out my pre-build electrical sketches and validate/tweak it for real spaces. I do plan to have space for a second battery for a trolling motor should I decide to add one. Current thinking is it will go under the forward deck just behind bulkead #3 - as will my gas tank, but I want to get it all laid out to confirm. Alternatively it can go opposite the main battery on the starboard side.

Once all that is sorted I can make final adjustments to bulkheads, fix them, and finish internal epoxying. I'd originally thought I'd fix the bulkheads then filet the outer hull to side joints, but looking at it I've realized it will be a lot easier and quicker to do those in long runs and just ease the lower corners of the bulkheads to fit. I can't think of any real downside to that strategy.
 
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