SigneT - Fyne Boat Kits. Product Description As well as being a fast racing boat, the SigneT makes a splendid cruising boat or day sailer. A great boat. The SigneT was sponsored by the Sunday Times and designed by Ian Proctor in 1961. It is a class racer with its own Association of enthusiastic members. There are fleets in Australia and the United States of American as well as in the United Kingdom. The SigneT Association run a full race programme and there are active clubs through out the country sailing on lakes and the sea. Several boats have crossed the English Channel. As well as being a fast racing vessel, the SigneT makes a splendid cruising boat or day sailer. Sail Area Mainsail 63 sq ft (5.8 m²)Genoa 42 sq ft (3.9 m²)Spinnaker 90 sq ft (8.3 m²) Although the boat is made in the same way as originally designed, more modern materials are now used. The grain on the decks is selected, matched and cut to form an arrow pointing towards the bow.
The kit contains all that is needed to make the hull. Short Kit. WEST SYSTEM | Products | Product Selection Chart. You Are Here: Home » Products » Product Selection Chart Product Selection Chart This Product/Application Overview shows how bonding, fairing and coating applications are related to combinations of specific products in our 105 Resin-based line. Step 1 Start with 105 Resin, the basic ingredient of all WEST SYSTEM epoxy compounds. Use 300 Mini Pumps for convenient and accurate metering. Step 2 Mix with one of four WEST SYSTEM hardeners. Step 3 Add one of six WEST SYSTEM fillers to thicken the mixture as needed. See An Overview of WEST SYSTEM Epoxies for a summary of information on the 105 Resin system, G/flex Epoxy, Six-10 Thickened Epoxy Adhesive and G/5 Five Minute Epoxy.
Call our toll-free help line to talk with our technical staff, weekdays 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM EST WEST SYSTEM is a registered trademark of West System Inc | Sitemap | Terms & Conditions | Web Site by Ingenex Digital Customers in Europe, Africa and the Middle East may be best served by Wessex Resins and Adhesives. SigneT Dinghy Building. Building a Wooden Signet Dinghy This is how I built a Signet Dinghy. It took about 60 hours but I did not cut the wood or take days trying to find the materials. This boat was built from a kit that is obtainable from Fyne Boat Kits. This is a great hobby and, when I have finished, there will be a boat to play in. The pictures are below but first a bit about the boat itself. The SigneT was sponsored by the Sunday Times and designed by Ian Proctor in 1961.
Tools Needed Not many tools seem to be required but below is a list: Drill Small saw Orbital sander or sand paper Clamps or clips Screwdriver Rule Tape measure Disposable brushes Mixing sticks Empty and cleaned yogurt pots Sponge roller set The build The first task is to stick together the floor panels. Eventually there will be a page of the painted boat and the boat on the water. Ask for more information on the SigneT. Caution Water - Articles on Dinghy Repair. Want to learn how to restore your dinghy to its former glory? Check out our articles. Dinghy Repair Spars - Boom and Mast Spars are pretty important on a boat - without them, there's nothing to hold the mast up! Different masts require different actions and maintenance, and we're going to be considering aluminium masts in this article. - Read More Dinghy Repair Repainting a Boat Repainting a boat is not a task to underestimate - you can't just open a can and slap on a bit of paint.
. - Read More Dinghy Repair Toestraps Toestraps are an essential part of a hiking dinghy - without them, hike too far and you'll go for a swim! Duckworks. How to Scarf-join Plywood by F. O'Brien Andrew Putting a plywood skin on a boat isn't as easy as it looks. Because most boat are longer than a piece of plywood (And good board stretchers are too expensive) boat builders frequently need to join two pieces of plywood together. There are several options for this, and the scarf-joint is one of the most common. The basic idea of a scarf joint is to take the two ends you want to join and shave them down at a regular angle. This is a much longer glue line and a much stronger joint than just attaching the two ends in what is commonly called a 'Butt Joint'.
So you got the idea and it sounds easy, but it isn't. There are lots of ways, this is how I did it when building my little sailboat, FoxFeathers. First I clamp down the piece of plywood I want to shave, with the edge to be cut along the edge of a work surface. Not only do you want a work surface you can cut without concern, but you want to have a clamping surface you can cut into too. F. Caution Water - Sailing - Dinghy Repair Repainting a Boat. Go To: Sailing - Dinghy Repair Posted on Sunday, November 16, 2008 6:55 PM Repainting a boat is not a task to underestimate - you can't just open a can and slap on a bit of paint.
Find out how to prepare and paint your boat properly. We decided fairly early on to repaint our Laser 2 - the original gelcote was glossy mostly still but faded in places, it had a couple of spots where we had put on filler and a few areas where it had been repaired and rather badly gelcoted before. We liked the colour, but the only way to get the same colour again would be to re-gelcote it. We did some research to decide whether to re-gelcote the boat, or to paint it instead, and every resource we found on gelcoting pointed to one conclusion - if you value your time, don't try to re-gelcote a boat. The paint we chose was International Topcote, Largo Blue. Preparation Unfortunately, you can't just flip a boat upside down and get painting. Photo 1, Setting up the trolley Photo 2, Securing the crossbeam Repair Painting. Wooden%20Boat%20Restoration%20and%20Repair. Mirror Dinghy Restoration. Mirror Dinghy Repair Many people regard plywood dinghies as lesser mortals of the sailing world.
However what is forgotten is the fact that they have lasted 30yrs+ and were protected with materials far inferior to what we have available today.Too often Mirror Dinghies have seen neglect in their life, together with maintenance using very poor materials. One such example is that shown below which fell into my hands recently. I will attempt to give a step by step guide to her restoration and return to the water.
Her sails and spars were in fine condition however the hull needed urgent attention. 1) carefully remove paint and varnish with Nitromoors craftsman (yellow can stripper)2) carefully cut out any rotten areas of ply. this one was lucky she had about 5 relatively small areas of damage. 3) Decking has been stripped and cleaned in the above photo, with any rotten ply removed. 6) With the bottom of the hull now solid and rigid, it was turned upright, and attention paid to the gunwales.