Lumberyard Punt

[BigIsland]

Does anyone have, or know where to find, pictures of the Duck Trap Lumberyard Punt? Their website states the pictures have been lost and will be reloaded.

Thanks & Happy Labor Day Weekend!

[Thorne]

Duck Trap Woodworking? Nothing by that name listed on their website or in their books/CD's...
http://www.duck-trap.com/dtw.html

[Canoeyawl]

These were common years ago.
Popular mechanics had a version as did other do-it-yourself boat building rags.
Why are they not built today? Easy to add freeboard or fiddle with the design to meet your needs (row, sail, pole, etc) as you add rocker, you get a stronger sheer, a great little boat and they sail pretty well with a centerboard or leeboard. I built one on a weekend to get back and forth to an unprotected mooring and even added a lapstrake plank. There is no better shape for getting on and off a beach. On Friday eveningI made a few cardboard versions, one inch to the foot at the kitchen table with a hot glue gun, when it looked good I built it the next morning and launched on Sunday. If you want to paint it it will take longer!
This one is maybe for duck hunting, no rocker, no sheer. But the concept is all there.
http://duckboats.net.nmsrv.com/specs/images/mertpunt1.jpg
http://duckboats.net.nmsrv.com/specs/images/mertpunt3.jpg
http://duckboats.net.nmsrv.com/specs/images/mertpunt2.jpg

[BigIsland]

Duck Trap does appear to still have the plans in the 'skiffs' section. No one has any pictures:confused:

http://www.duck-trap.com/2002skiffs.html

I really like the design in the above post. It seems that many build boats to get back to the basics, but then choose the most complicated, convoluted designs available. I would think these punts are capable of accomplishing 90% of the boating needs of boatbuilders.

[Canoeyawl]

They are great little boats, eminently practical.
I still have one. We call it the Butthead, Everyone uses it, especially the kids - It was a summer vacation project when my two nephews were10 and 12 years old. They participated all the way through the build, from the lumberyard selecting the boards to the chandlery finding the fasteners and oarlocks (it helps that Hamiltons is next door) All hand tools - It was mostly an excercise in developing an attention span, but it was a life experience with lots of skills gained and when 8 or 9 of us climbed in and rowed around on launch day the reward was high! The boys are grown now, and they are both sailors...
We loan it to visiting guests, or anyone in town that needs a skiff, we paint it with whatever is going on the house that year, plywood bottom it doesn't leak, like a favorite aunt, it is well loved.

Everything you need to build one is right there... a couple of weekends, some 12" pine shelving and a couple hundred bucks.
You won't have to beg or buy permision to alter or modify the design!

[Stiletto]

I had one something like that when I was a kid, only mine had tin sides.
great fun!

[trefor]

is their performance something like a canoe? or are they a big slow unwieldy pig on the water? also, someone above mentioned sailing them, anyone know how they'd handle in that aspect?

thanks,
trevor

[Canoeyawl]

I think the model pictured will be pretty nimble. At 16 feet long and just a shade over three feet wide it has a great length to beam ratio. It will have good speed and pick up stability from the length.
I'm guessing two guys could stand up flyfishing and walk around while poling or rowing it around relatively effortlessly.
Underrated little craft. They are not at their best in a seaway, but either am I. Think protected water, who wants to take rowboat out in a two foot chop anyway? Then you need a tippy Portuguese dory...

Of course they can sail, here's a big version with a centerboard.
http://www.maritime.org/img/Alma%202.jpg

[Hal Forsen]

I thought it was more like Mr. Smalser's ?

http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL12/1104763/9745605/138777275.jpg

http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL12/1104763/9745605/291368019.jpg

[BigIsland]

http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL12/1104763/9745605/138777275.jpg

http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL12/1104763/9745605/291368019.jpg[/quote]

Now that's great! Looks very similar to the 10 footer in Building Small Boat's. Is this different?

[Canoeyawl]

Here's a Gaff rigged sailing version, with a lapped sheer plank to get a bit more freeboard!
(for San Francisco Bay :eek:)

http://www.gunkholing.org/Images/4-21-05 078rs.jpg

[SScoville]

This is from Gardner's Building Classic Small craft. The article can be found here:
http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/03/r/excerpts/bcsc/index.htm

http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/03/r/excerpts/bcsc/bateau.gif

[Hal Forsen]

Now that's great! Looks very similar to the 10 footer in Building Small Boat's. Is this different?
IIRC it's the Dion punt from Gardner's first book.

[ShagRock]

Or you could consider moving up a notch to a seaworthy Newfoundland rowing punt..you can build it outa lumber too!
http://travel.aol.ca/article/travel-newfoundland-fogo-island-punt-race/259006/

[BigIsland]

Very interesting. Not too much need for 'seaworthy' around here.

I found the following which is very interesting, 28' LOA, 3' beam. Wonder what the beam would be and how you would keep it upright in any sort of breeze?

http://thames.me.uk/puntplan1919.htm

[Canoeyawl]

I like that one...
(It might want a little deck at the bow for sailing).