Canvas attachment at the stem inwale junction

[Dave Aukes]

Does anyone have a drawing or photo showing how the canvas is attached at the stem inwale junction? I'm ready to do up the bow after stretching the canvas and I'm not sure how it's typically done with this type on inwale that extends beyond the stem.
Also how is the canvas prepared or trimmed before the outwale is installed?

 

[Rollin Thurlow]

At the corner of the stem and the rail, cut the canvas parallel to the rail. That will allow the canvas at the stem to wrap over the face of the stem. Tack the canvas on the face of the stem as close to the rail as you can.
After the canvas filler has cured and before the outside rail is put on, the canvas is cut as smoothly as possible with the very sharp knife, as even to the top of the edge of the planking as possible. If you leave too much canvas above the plank line it makes fitting the outside rail difficult. If the canvas is cut too low there is a possibility the outside rail will not cover up the cut edge of the canvas.

 

[Dave Aukes]

Thanks for the come back Rollin, I'll have to take some time to think through that, not sure I understand right now. I might have to come back to you with more questions later.
Dave

 

[Dave Aukes]

The shear plank is relieved to allow the rail past and out. At the relief how is the canvas cut? Does one canvas over the relief and tack to the rail? Or cut the relief in the canvas as well and the canvas above that is what then raps around the stem. Then the outside rail passes over that empty cutout in the plank?

 

[Michael Grace]

It seems you're overthinking this. You just want your canvas to cover the hull and be tight, and of course you don't want canvas over those rail tips that protrude. Another way of saying the same as Rollin is: cut the canvas so that it can be wrapped around the stem, pulled up tight to the underside of the rail tips. Just wrap it around the stem and tack to the stem as usual. Tack along the rail right up to the point that the planking stops.

 

[Dave Aukes]

Okay, I think this is how Rollin and Michael were telling me to deal with the canvas in this bow location?

Click on the 1200 x 900 for a larger photo.

 

[Michael Grace]

Looks good. You can stretch and tack until you get close to the ends of the Wales and the tops of the stems, then cut. Or you can make these cuts before final stretching and tacking, but you might have to trim a little more off if pulling tight pulls it beyond your cutlines. No problem; just trim a little more off after tacking if needed.

 

[Dave Aukes]

Oh, the canvas has been on, stretched tacked along the rails and at the stern for eleven days now. I’ve had questions on how to do the tacking on the bow until now.

I did the canvasing outside and upright under the awning of my shop, it was in the stretching rig under tension for five days because of heavy morning humidity and it even got rained on a bit one evening. But the humidity went down and the canvas became stretchable again so late one afternoon I pushed through the heat and got it tacked up except for the bow. The next day I cut It loose and put it back in the shop where it’s been for the last eleven days.

Thank You Rollin and Michael I think I can take it from here.