Boat Building for Idiots

[raul segura]

thanks for sharing Ive seen several sites with posts like this and I like yours very well. I purchased planes for the weekender from Stevensons projects, but since then Ive found two other small boats Ive fallen for, cant decide. I am intrigued that on a boat most things are not square but with some interesting angle.
You mentioned that the door skins are little thinner than the planes ask for. For a boat this size it sounds awfully fragile. I presume that you will coat with fiberglass ? If you can get away with this it sounds like it will be a very light sail.
I'm looking forward to seeing more please,
thanks again.

[Eric Westerman]

This is awesome!

Eric
Greensboro NC
Woodworkers Store

[John Bailey]

You mentioned that the door skins are little thinner than the planes ask for. For a boat this size it sounds awfully fragile. I presume that you will coat with fiberglass ? If you can get away with this it sounds like it will be a very light sail.
I'm looking forward to seeing more please,
thanks again.

The door skins are for the patterns only. I've used 1/4" marine ply for the actual boat.

Next came the scarph on the garboards and then glued them up. I tried to set up home made jigs and had trouble. So, I ended up doing it free hand. They seem to fit OK, but I wasn't real happy with the results. I'm going to have to do some fairing to get these to look right under paint. The shearstrake is the one I'm really concerned about. I've plans to leave it bright, but that means I need to have a good looking joint.

Here's the picture of the finished garboard being glued to the keel.



The gluing came after the fit,



which came after the fitting,



which came after the gluing of the scarph,



which came after cutting the scarph, which I wan't very happy with!!



And yes, I got the pictures in the wrong order but I'm not about to try to redo them. You get the picture!

John