Back tracking a little, the skeg got glued on after glassing but before gloss coating the hull.
Installing the skeg is made easy with tongues and slots.
PT Eleven; skeg
Category: Nesting-PT11 Construction
General update:PT Eleven
Russell and I want to let everyone know that we are much closer to having the PT Eleven nesting dinghy done.
The final prototype is very close to completion. All the hardware (some recently posted on the blog) and most parts of the kit have been developed for production.
Writing the manual is progressing daily and formatting it is not far behind.
We will be able to cut kits for the PT Eleven after we finish this boat and the manual.
We are aware that it has been a long wait for some of you and you may have moved on to other ideas. We have had some pretty impressive charachters view this boat and their critiques have been extremely positive. The PT Eleven is a very highly developed kit boat and will be complete before putting it on the market.
Pricing update: We still think we can sell this kit for $1,500.00 including the glass kit.
Options including rig and foils kits, water tight hatch kit and other small parts will be priced when fully developed. (Some of these have been posted on the blog)
We are working on a very well developed sailing rig.
The foils (daggerboard & kick-up rudder) are CNC cut from Okoume plywood and finished by the builder.
The mast is a 2 piece tapered carbon tube that fits into a sleeve in the hull. The boom is a tapered carbon tube as well.
The sail is a smaller version of the one in the videos, about 60 square feet. The design is complete and beng made locally. Prices for these will be announced.
We apologize to those who have been waiting for awhile. This has been a far more involved process than we expected, but we believe that the extra time spent has been time well spent.
This show model of the PT ELeven, as well as the PT SKiff will be at the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival on the weekend of September 9-11. Port Townsend Watercraft will have a booth with Gougeon/West System Epoxy.
Feedback and questions are welcome. If those of you who plan to buy a PT Eleven kit this year would like to reply and let us know, it would help us a lot in our scheduling.
Best regards to all,
Ashlyn & Russell Brown
PT Eleven Glassing the hull
PT Eleven; cutting the boat in half..
The hull halves are stood on end so that gravity can do it’s thing when injecting the sockets around the hardware.
PT Eleven Connective Hardware
Russell designed the connective hardware for our nesting dinghies after many experiments with nesting boats over the years. The current design is the result of that experience and several sessions of refinement greatly assisted by the lofting skills, material expertise and beautiful machining of Paul Zeusche here in Port Townsend.
This hardware has turned out to be a work of art as well as extremely functional and they are essential to our nesting dinghy kit.
These parts have a captive pin and do not leak when assembling the boat in the water.
PT Eleven Nesting construction: Aft flotation1
Following are pictures of the aft bouyancy tanks coming together.
A blind fillet is made while you have access to the inside area of the tank. 
Glue on the tank sides: 
Glue applied on the blind fillet and glue cleats: 
Glue on the lid, held in place with tape and sticks; 
More finished photos will follow in another post. Had a meeting this weekend discussing the sail design with designer Sandy Goodall. Things are moving forward. Cheers...
PT ELEVEN foils
Foil kit for the PT Eleven (shown finished) These are prototypes of the foils we will be offering in kit form. The foil shape (naca 0012) is NC machined from Okoume plywood in 2 halves. We bond the 2 halves together in a vacuum bag and the builder does the finish work. 
PT Eleven Chine taping
Some photos of taping the chines...
I am a little behind on posting...Sorry about that. Russell has been working on some details and then had to take off for a week.. I will post more soon. The boat is looking beautiful but we are not done yet. The manual is a full time job. We really appreciate our followers and all your patience. Cheers.. PTW
PT Eleven; back seat/buyoncy
Pre glassing the back seat/ buoyancy tank parts
PT Eleven filleting 2
Filleting gussets....
