Video of cutting my nesting Eastport Pram in half

If the link works, here's a link to a brief (2-minute) time-lapse video on YouTube of cutting my nesting Eastport Pram in half yesterday.  Though I've built quite a few boats over the last 35 years, I never sawed one in half.  As John suggests in the builder's manual, it takes a bit of courage, faith, or something...but all went pretty well.  Thought someone might get a kick out of it.

Roger Lopata

 

           https://youtu.be/1UpG2IDmN0g         

 


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RE: Video of cutting my nesting Eastport Pram in half

   Having built a few boats, that is freaky. I did notice you left the picture often, for another shot of courage?

Thanks for the video,

Joel

RE: Video of cutting my nesting Eastport Pram in half

  Funny, I was thinking the same thing. As they used to say on the "A Team", "I love it when a plan comes together".

RE: Video of cutting my nesting Eastport Pram in half

...when a plan comes together...and a boat comes apart...cleanly, from the look of it!

.....Michael

RE: Video of cutting my nesting Eastport Pram in half

Yes, she came apart cleanly (although, at times, at just the very notion of cutting a boat in half, I thought it was me that might come apart!).  There were a few spots where my saw jumped and scratched into the epoxy, but nothing into the wood as far as I can tell, so it should clean up nicely.  Sanded down/cleaned up the two bulkheads today and will lay down a coat of epoxy on each face tomorrow.

Expect that the rest of the build will be somewhat less dramatic -- at least I hope so -- and plan to splash her sometime in the spring.

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