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Patent pending connective hardware designed by Russell Brown

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.

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Patent pending connective hardware designed by Russell Brown

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. ptwatercraft.comGlue on the tank sides: ptwatercraft.comGlue applied on the blind fillet and glue cleats: ptwatercraft.comGlue on the lid, held in place with tape and sticks; ptwatercraft.comMore 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...

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. ptwatercraft.comptwatercraft.com

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PT 11 kick up rudder

Some photos of taping the chines...ptwatercraft.comptwatercraft.comptwatercraft.comptwatercraft.comI 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

Fillet stick set now available. Arrives as 4 sticks connected. You separate them and bevel edges to end up with 8 sizes ranging from 1/2inch to 2 inches. ptwatercraft.com

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Fillet sticks ready for use

$10 + postage.  See our site for details.  We are including a chisel stick in our set since it is essential for clean filleting!

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Using a chisel stick to clean up fillets