Flagship Transition Students Fit Chine
These Flagship Transition students have just finished fitting the starboard chine in their canoe.
These young women measured the angle between the stem and bottom of the canoe with a bevel gage and transfered it to the chine with a pencil. This line was extended using a carpenters square across the top and bottom of the chine, and then cut by hand using a traditional Japanese handsaw, the ryoba. They checked the fit and then made a pencil mark where the chine goes through a notch cut in the frame. The process was repeated at the other end of the canoe. The distance between the two pencil marks at the notch in the frame is carefully measured, and that amount is cut from the length of the chine. This process leaves a perfect fit; the kids are using algebra to solve for X, where X = chine length!
These young boatbuilders are proud of their accomplishments!