Riverman :

Interesting. Don't reckon I need rocker badly enough to try any carving or maybe I just don't have enough experience to give the
confidence to attempt this. Reckon I'll try some other approaches.

I'll bite, what's the "hole in the sand method" ?





"riverman" wrote in message ...

"Te Canaille" wrote in message
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Its true that shortening the thwarts decreases rocker. If you want to do
both, I did see someone who cut slivers out of the side of the boat,
basically removed a triangle, to create rocker.

He cut two pieces from each side, the base of the triangle on the rail, the
point right down at the chine (even curling just a tiny bit around the
bottom, like a few mm.) The pieces were each about 1/3 the hull length from
the ends, maybe a hint closer to the center. The base of each triangle
removed about 1 inche of rail, but the resulting 'suture' raised the ends
up several inches (you can do the math).

It would be interesting: remove two slivers from each side to OVERcreate
rocker, then shorten the thwarts to round the bottom, and remove some
rocker. You'd have a pretty unique boat when you were done. Personally, I
think I'd work on the hole-in-the-sand method..

--riverman