The mock-up of the half tower has become THE half tower.

The SW Florida boatyard manager

Mocking up the tower

1-3 Views of the tower or to be precise, 1/2
tower.
4. House fully enclosed & windows added.

First lap at WOT. After that the speed is more scale.

Hi Ron & Bob.
The 1:1 boat I’m using as the inspiration is shown in my first in this blog. What interested me was the 36 Northern Bay’s rather unique, for a sport fisherman’s, shear line & the unusual house geometry. It’s the first time I’ve seen one arranged this way. The 1:1 shows a lobster pot hauler in the Stbd cabin offset but there is no sign of any provision for an accompanying pot hauling davit. I’ve never seen a large sport fish also rigged for lobstering. Harpoon fishing yes, but not for lobstering. The offset in my build will be used as an aft helm station occasionally seen on boats that fish for really (300 lb +) big species & have to back down on the fish during the fight to land it. A lot of backing down is required to keep the fish on the stern of the boat. An aft helm makes it easier to keep track of the fish’s position relative to the boat’s stern.

Bob, when I have ready access to water such as now when I’m temporarily in Florida 😎 I throw a build in the water. Sometimes the results are very exciting to say the least! Here, I toasted the ESC since the hull was wide open to water particularly over the stern. Once a build is closed in to water I run it for fun, correcting problems, & trying ideas. The lift strakes were added & ballast weight adjusted as a result of this displacement hull’s inability to lift its stern out of the hole as discovered in one running session.

Work continues.
Bill

The pieces are beginning to come together.
1. Second windscreen construction after badly messing up the first attempt.
2. Some final fitting required & then on to the windows.
3.The framing for the house bulkheads worked out as intended.
4. Look closely & you can see a lift strake was added (P&S) at the turn of the bilge.The 1:1 has a longer strake inboard of the bilge strakes. I’ll probably add those also. The hull now gets out of the hole which before the addition of the strakes & a reduction of ballast weight in the bow it could not do.

After several days of contemplation I derived a method to frame the house assembly for the bulkheads. Very rigid yet allows above deck structure to be easily removed for access.

Starting to construct & install wheelhouse/trunk cabin. In second photo you can see the difference between the Stbd & port wheelhouse lengths. Third photo shows the coaming; fourth shows falseworks in place to pull house sides into position so roof beams can be placed.

The yard has become busy! The second hull, the 36 ft Northern Bay splashed today.
- deck & gunnels (1/16 in styrene) dry fit
- with battery fwd a few oz ballast required aft
- no leaks
- unlike the Wasque 26 this one is very fast
- twitchy steering needs exponential adjustment

A few more things done before we head to the warm weather.

1. Into the ballast test tank the other day. No leaks & initial ballast set. 16.5 oz in the stern. With 12 os NIMH an additional 9os of lead ballast. Right now float weight about 4 lbs. Might be a bit light.

2. Gloss black hull, white anti foul paint on bottom & red boot top.

3. Profile view.