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My home built boat

SiliconTi said:
WOW! Nice truck too.

I have great respect for people that can build boats. It looks so easy but is so hard to do.
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Some boats are very hard to build, (particularly sailboats with a reverse curve and carvel planking) but this one went together fairly easy, but took some thinking ahead, and a little cursing at times! :naughty:. Overall I enjoyed the experience although I did get tired of all the epoxy mixing! Launch day was just surreal.. :)
 
Very nice boat! And as it has been mentioned, the truck is just the icing on the cake! :thumbsup:
 
Not sure if I asked you this before but did you take any schooling for boat building?A very good friend of mine went to nova scotia in the early 90,s for a few years and learned from the masters.Ienjoy going over to his place to see the progress on his latest project be it a cedarstrip runabout or a lapstrake launch from the 40,s.HE,S built small sailboats and canoes but the one I liked the most was a small woodie with a electric motor.He turned down a big wooden crusier due to lack of space.What made me cry was it had twin scripps v12 motors.
 
2011etec said:
Not sure if I asked you this before but did you take any schooling for boat building?A very good friend of mine went to nova scotia in the early 90,s for a few years and learned from the masters.Ienjoy going over to his place to see the progress on his latest project be it a cedarstrip runabout or a lapstrake launch from the 40,s.HE,S built small sailboats and canoes but the one I liked the most was a small woodie with a electric motor.He turned down a big wooden crusier due to lack of space.What made me cry was it had twin scripps v12 motors.
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No school, just read books mostly. That and when I was very young my dad built a few flat bottom riverboats. Plywood is pretty easy to build with depending on the design. It bends one direction easy, but two directions not so much. Main part of building the bartender hull is setting up the jig, lofting, building the frames and gluing and screwing the ply down. There are some things to watch for on most planing boats including the bartender. The main one is something called rocker. It is where the flat part of the hull aft has a very slight curve to it. A planing boat with rocker will want to porpoise at speeds approaching max and not much can be done about it other than try to compensate with trim. Other than that it isn't dificult so long as everything was set up right from the beginning.
 
I know this is a little older thread. I am planning on building a boat this spring. It is a 17 foot offshore pacific power dory. Ply on frame construction. I have the plans and have started looking for materials and supplies. I am thinking it is going to take me 6-8 weeks from start to finish - I hope. I am retired so I can work from 2-6 hours per day on it.

Here is a quick over view of the boat
http://spirainternational.com/hp_cour.php
 
Nice boat! Really like a self bailing hull, and that is how I built mine. 6-8 weeks I would say is doable depending on some things. The hull on the Pacific dory looks to be considerably easier to build than mine so that will speed things along. When I think back what took the longest was all the stuff that I added like fuel tanks built in under the self bailing floor, remote controls for the engine, the cuddy cabin with windshield. Also my boat had the outboard in a well due to its design being a double ender. Even with all that I managed to get it launched within about 11 months. If I were to build another one just like it I could probably cut at least 3 months off! I made changes that required lots of thought and that takes time as well.

Building a boat is great fun, I wish I could do another one but since the last boat we decided to build our own house and after 8 years that still is not done! Not nearly as much fun either! Hope you can post on your progress, either piggy back on this thread or a new one. Several people on this site I know will be interested, including me!
 
I may just piggy back on this thread. I have a some woodworking and model building skills. My garage is full of power tools ranging from cordless drills, to routers, to band says and so on. I think the hardest part will be building the strong back and then the frames. Once that is done it should go together quite quickly.

My right arm is currently in a sling from rotator cuff surgery. About eight more weeks and I get it back. I hope to start at that time. For now, it is simply a matter of shopping and sourcing good places and prices for materials. I am in Denver, so a selection of marine grade ply's is very limited and difficult to find. What did you build your boat with? Okumme, merranti. marine grade Douglas fir? Any suggestions on materials or source would be very much appreciated.

thanks!!!!
mark
 
I ended up using 3/8 marine grade doug fir for the hull and some type of a Okoume 1/4" for the decks. The douglas fir ply I would really watch and wouldn't be my first choice. If you do go that route make sure the grain of the outermost layer is fairly tight, otherwise it can split when bending. Once it is in place fir must have at least some layer of fiberglass cloth due to its tendency to check with just paint. I found a very light weight cloth for the sides and a much heavier one for the hull bottom. Still no checks in the wood. I painted the inside of the hull with a product called Sani-Tred which is best described as liquid rubber and it completely "encapsulates" bare plywood and is tough as the tires on your car. Paint that stuff on the inside of your boat (only over bare wood and plywood) and you probably can forget about rot. As for plywood sources I don't have much to go on either as I live so far away from the action, but I would look to the pacific N.W., the Pt Townsend WA area in particular will have suppliers. Pick up a copy of Wooden Boat magazine, there will be ads from most suppliers.I remember spending lots of money with these guys: http://www.fisheriessupply.com/ They will have hard to find stuff you will likely need.. I used System Three epoxy for all glue (order direct), and it is a good product IMO.

Take your time lofting, get the building jig leveled up, then get one of those self leveling laser levels and it is a snap to check to make sure things are where they need to be as you go. Think ahead, and most of all have fun!
 
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