Grapeview Point Boat Works, 습도 측정을 위해 Wagner 사용

Wooden hull upside down on a building frame in a boat shop, with another wooden boat behind it

왼쪽의 건축 프레임은 14피트 범선의 디자인 이름인 "Swallow"입니다.

On the shores of Puget Sound, in the vacation-home community of Grapeview, Washington, you’ll find Grapeview Point Boat Works, a wooden boat restoration, repair, and new-build business. Owner Tom Regan, formerly an electronics and manufacturing contractor, started the company by happy accident. At the time of this 2019 article, it was 17 years old.

"어느 날 보트를 타러 나갔는데, 제가 타는 보트를 직접 만들었다는 이야기를 듣고는, 동료 조정 선수가 다른 사람들을 위해 보트를 만드는지 물어봤어요."라고 그는 말한다. "그 주에 보트를 타러 나가서 사업 허가를 받았죠."

Regan builds 15- to 20-foot custom wooden sailboats, rowboats, and canoes for customers much like himself: busy professionals who grew up with wooden boats in the family. He also works off-site at local marinas on boats up to 30 feet long.

그는 "이 사업은 매장과 현장에서 수리 및 업그레이드를 진행하면서 신축과 복원을 50/50으로 진행합니다."라고 말했습니다.

His maintenance and restoration work ranges from minor structural repairs to restoring boats with few original parts still in good shape. Most of the boats have a white oak or mahogany backbone.

According to Regan, a wood that’s being used more and more for boatbuilding is sapele, an African hardwood that’s available in very large, high-quality pieces at a reasonable price. Soft yellow cedar is typically used for planking and decks.

Regan uses local woods suitable for boatbuilding whenever possible. “You need a certain amount of rot resistance and the wood needs to hold a finish well,” he says. “If the boat needs to be particularly lightweight, we’ll use woods that are less dense. It depends on how the boat is going to be moved.”

Regan generally buys rough-sawn wood from mills, usually planks about 15 to 20 feet long, at least 1″ x 18″, and up to 4 inches thick. He runs the wood through jointers and planers to make finished lumber, with final dimensions depending on the size of the boat.

Once a board is jointed and planed smooth, he cuts curved shapes on table saws and band saws. Regan says steam bending is the fastest way to make a bent part, compared with cutting it out in sections and joining them or gluing up laminations into a curve.

Inside of a wooden launch hull under construction, showing its ribs and frames

Hull of the Zimmer launch, designed by Nelson Zimmer around World War II. A launch is a boat used to ferry a small number of passengers. Zimmer designed many other types of boats but apparently only one launch, so boatwrights often call this well-known design the Zimmer launch.

증기 굽힘 시 목재 수분 관리

To steam bend wood, the wood needs a high moisture content. The moisture in the wood carries the heat of the steam into the center of the piece. If the wood is dry, the heat doesn’t transfer as well, and the wood is much more likely to split or crack when it’s bent.

Buying freshly cut wood that’s still wet inside is ideal, but that can be difficult because some species are shipped from overseas. Kiln drying helps stop the spread of insects, but kiln-dried wood doesn’t steam bend well. Regan says you can restore the moisture by soaking the wood.

"구부려야 할 마른 나무 조각이 있다면, 여기 베이(bay)에 최대 일주일 동안 담가두면 Wagner 목재 수분계를 사용하여 수분 함량을 확인할 수 있습니다. 목재의 수분 함량이 32%에 도달하면 섬유 포화점이라는 것을 알고 있습니다. 측정하는 데 몇 초밖에 걸리지 않습니다."

(Fiber saturation point varies by species but averages about 30% moisture content.)

Regan has used a Wagner moisture meter for several years and still has the original battery in it.

무료 다운로드: 핀형 습도계와 핀리스형 습도계 중 어떤 것이 당신에게 더 적합할까요?
무료 다운로드 – 핀형 수분계와 핀리스 수분계 중 어떤 것이 나에게 더 적합할까요?

He cautions that you can’t tell how wet a piece of wood is by looking at it. You need a reading from inside the wood.

Wooden boat interior with a ship’s wheel and inlaid wood panels"증기 벤딩에 대해 알아볼 때, 좀 더 저렴한 핀 타입 미터들을 살펴봤는데, 핀형 미터 그 제품도 제 역할을 했을 테지만, 사용하기가 그렇게 편리하지 않았고, 외관상 중요한 부분에는 사용할 수 없었어요. 그래서 바그너 제품을 선택했는데, 전혀 후회하지 않습니다."

Regan also notes that because he works with different types of wood, being able to easily switch the meter between species, without conversion tables or temperature corrections, was another selling point.

He once contacted Wagner Meters’ customer service when he was getting uneven moisture readings on a boat curing inside a boathouse. He learned that salt water crystals can affect moisture meter readings and was thankful for the tips he received. “It’s the type of tool that if you don’t have it, there is no substitute for it. You can either measure moisture or you can’t.”

The 오리온® line of pinless wood moisture meters offers easy, one-handed operation. Orion meters include a press-and-hold feature for readings in tight places, plus an On-Demand Calibrator that lets you check your meter’s calibration anytime.

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