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Salt & Tar: Ep.299- Building the CLC Tenderly (not a kit build) Chesapeake Light Craft
15 August 2024 · 19 min · 38K views · California
What this video covers
Garrett builds a 10-foot Chesapeake Light Craft (CLC) Tenderly dinghy from plans rather than a pre-cut kit.8:02 The project requires manual lofting and cutting of plywood components, including five frames, a skeg, and a daggerboard trunk.3:41 Each frame consists of a three-layer "sandwich" made of a middle section and two outer doublers, which must be glued and aligned precisely to prevent hull distortion.5:37 Because the plans provide only half-frame templates, Garrett uses these as patterns to cut the remaining halves.5:34 He manages alignment during the epoxy glue-up by using CA glue to tack-weld temporary scrap wood to the frame halves, ensuring the butt joints remain square.14:41 He also uses small stainless steel tack nails as locator pins to keep the slippery, epoxy-coated layers from shifting while clamping.15:19 The build process involves seven sheets of plywood and requires careful transfer of stitch-hole locations from the primary frame pieces to the doublers.9:19
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