Excavating Centerboard Rabbet - Your Opinion Please
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 10:32 am
Hi Boys/Ladies:
Laid low here in Baltimore over the winter but back in the Pocketship building mode now. Feels good and anxious to really start making some progress. My Pocketship is still in the early stages. Keel finished; lead pour next week.
Your opinion please....Page 52 in the manual suggests excavating a 3/8" wide x 3/4" deep rabbet all along the leading and trailing edges of the centerboard. I'm going to use my router and small router table for this procedure.
How would you recommend doing this:
1. Hold the centerboard on router table vertically and run it thru the router using a 3/8" straight(other) bit? (A bit cumbersome)
2. Place the centerboard on the router table horizontally (flat) and run it thru the router using a slotting router bit(s)
3. Other ideas...
Using my tablesaw is out (friend lost part of his thumb recently).
They're calling for 70 degree temps this weekend. Will be sailing the CLC Skerry that Dad/I built a few years ago on the Middle River of the Chesapeake Bay. Thanks for all your help and good luck.
Jimmy Vitale
Laid low here in Baltimore over the winter but back in the Pocketship building mode now. Feels good and anxious to really start making some progress. My Pocketship is still in the early stages. Keel finished; lead pour next week.
Your opinion please....Page 52 in the manual suggests excavating a 3/8" wide x 3/4" deep rabbet all along the leading and trailing edges of the centerboard. I'm going to use my router and small router table for this procedure.
How would you recommend doing this:
1. Hold the centerboard on router table vertically and run it thru the router using a 3/8" straight(other) bit? (A bit cumbersome)
2. Place the centerboard on the router table horizontally (flat) and run it thru the router using a slotting router bit(s)
3. Other ideas...
Using my tablesaw is out (friend lost part of his thumb recently).
They're calling for 70 degree temps this weekend. Will be sailing the CLC Skerry that Dad/I built a few years ago on the Middle River of the Chesapeake Bay. Thanks for all your help and good luck.
Jimmy Vitale