Chebec – hull no. 2
Both the boat model/series and the hull no. 2 of that series is called Chebec.
All chebecs were designed by Claude Graf and no2, Chebec, was built for his friend Francois Spoerry, well known in France for creating Port Grimaud near St. Tropez.
At the moment Chebec is being fully rebuilt and has been on hard since 2007.
Design & series
The design is inspired by traditional Mediterranean Xebecs. Fast and nimble and favored both by merchants and the Barbary coast pirates.
The design was made by Claude Graf as he wanted to create a sailboat for his private use. After a friend saw the drawings and got inspired by the looks of it, they ended up making a 10 or 11 chebecs. All but one are apparently still around.
Something I’ve postponed for years. Cut a hole in the deck by the helm.
Previous owner who did the new deck skipped making a companionway to cockpit. Due to the deck beam and windshield positioning I could not figure out a perfect way to do it afterwards and eventually decided just for the least bad option. It’s ok but not perfect. Not sure if anyone else even notices the issues tho’. It might ve just me wanting to do things perfectly 😄
Got access to a proper workshop so planed some oak into 38mm planks and some leftover teak into 4mm strips. Would be perfect to have a place like this at my disposal all the time.
Turns out laser cutting rubber is messy. It worked ok tho’. Measured the lid, modeled the part, cut a cardboard version to verofy dimensions and then had the whole boat smelling like burning rubber for a while. Did two of these for extra aroma. Next time I might just laser cut a model and use that to manually cut the rubber part.
Portlight frames and panels to hide the painted hull from view. Starting to look like a classic boat when all the surfaces are made out of teak and mahogany.
Access for the tank inspection hatch under chart table. Laser is a nice tool to cut hatches like this. Cuts 0,2 mm of material so I can use the cutout part for the hatch as is. No need to make a separate piece for the cutout and lose matching wood grain. After varnish you wont even see its there.
More rounding up
Engine bay side cover. Tried a new method to make rounded corners: Lots of tiny grooves on the back side of plywood with laser engraver, then having the ply to soak under wet rags overnight, bending it to shape, letting it to dry and then finally glueing it to the cover.
Here we go again.
It’s a wrap. Chebec and Mama Duck will spend the winter together.
Rounded corners and hatches. Getting quite fast and good making the hatches. Almost too bad that all of them are now done 😄