Building the Celerity

Building the Celerity

Posted by jprice on Sep 26th 2011

Here's my Celerity build. Started the weekend of The Gathering 2011 (9/16/2011).

The workshop

white oak and marine ply

Layout

Frame 1:

I used a slightly modified frame build process.   I created filler blocks for all joints where the gussets would be.  Used a biscuit joiner to join all the sections.  This made the assembly and lineup very simple by just pulling all the pieces together by hand, and lining it up on the layout board.  Once the epoxy cured, it was one solid frame.  No issues with anything shifting when the gussets were to be attached.  This also adds additional strength to the frame.

Frame 1 glue up

Attached gussets: (piece of cake!)

Frame 1

Temporary pause from the boat building to build an outboard motor stand. (to give credit where credit is due, I copied the design from here: http://forums.iboats.com/showthread.php?t=266570).  Only changes to the design were adding 2" to the height and width, and it's a good thing I did.  The motor barely fit on there as is.

I wasn't planning on getting an outboard now, but along came a deal that I couldn't pass up.

Plus it's just in time for the transom build, so I have all the exact measurements based off the motor dimensions.

Transom complete (with the exception of the motorboard and the cutout)

Stem, breasthook, and transom knee.  All cutout and laminated together.

Laminating the boards for the stringers (and attaching the breasthook to the stem with the leftover epoxy):

Form done!  A bit of a challenge getting the whole thing straight, square, and level (the stringers not being perfectly straight added to the challenge)

Finally starting to look somewhat boat shaped! (took a little over 2 months to get to this point... not sure if that's fast or slow)