construction
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What the hell are we doing?
Well, there is some beer drinking, some power tool noises, some sitting around talking. So, we must be working on the shantyboat to get it ready for the Tennessee River!
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Roof Rafters – The cabin takes shape
When we disassembled the Hollister chicken coop, we got a bunch of beautiful old 1×12 redwood siding, a shitton of corrugated metal, a handful of old dimensional redwood 2x4s, and finally, a dozen or so roof rafters, complete with birdsmouths. True they were old and some were a little worse for wear, rotted at the…
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Cabin Framing, More Mistakes Were Made
If there’s one thing I’m good at, it’s not being good as things. But given my delightfully blinding optimism, I plunge on ahead anyway, learning a ton with each monumental goof. You remember the cabin framing looked like this. That’s more or less an eight foot wall, with maybe 1 foot 8 inches below the…
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Cabin Wall Framing. Finally.
Whew, finally. We get to constructing the cabin walls. This is the fun part for me. As a former carpenter, framing construction is well-within my comfort zone. Initially, it looked like it would be easy as pie. I planned to simplify the standard stud construction to reduce weight: (single) sole plate + studs + (single) top plate +…
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Bow Eyes and Stern Tiedowns
Sometimes little things can be a big headache. And sometimes big headaches can turn out not to be that big a deal at all. And so it was with the bow eyes and stern tiedowns. Here’s the idea, I have a trailerable shantyboat. It is really really nice if when I am towing down the…
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More Cabin Planning
If you’ve been following the blog, you know that one place that I’m diverging from the Glen-L Waterlodge plans is in the cabin. While I have been true to the plans while building the hull, I am increasingly going off into the wild blue as I design and build the cabin. The original plans called for a…
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Fancy Pants New Renderings
There you go. 3D rendering doesn’t make anything more real, but it does help me understand some of the challenges I’ll face when I start constructing the cabin. New rendering, now with more Hazel dog!
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Thinking About Cabin Construction
Now that the boat is ready to be flipped, I’m thinking again about the cabin. Here’s the plan, in general, for the completed shantyboat. I’d been giving some thought earlier to the cabin layout, but finally sat down and planned everything out using real measurement. In clockwise order from top left: Small galley with 2-burner…