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Richard Jones
02-22-2010, 06:31 PM
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This is my new Rushton 15' Pulling boat. I got the plans from the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, N.Y. and adapted them to glued-lap construction as I have done with two previous Rushton canoes. Plans call for 14'3", but I stretched it out another 9" to 15'. 3'4" Beam. I've named the boat "Just Enough" because I have just enough materials lying around the shop to build it. My budget for this boat is $0.00 I also plan on moving to Vermont in a year or so and wanted to clean out my shop so I wouldn't have to transport materials. Just enough okoume 4mm ply, just enough cherry for the trim, etc. I wanted to use 6mm, but, no budget. I'll try various things to stiffen up the boat so it won't flex too much.

The first photo shows the building jig with keel and stems attached.
The second shows truss pattern for a plank laid out on the 4mm ply panel.
Third shows how truss pattern is laid out on boat. This is the first time I've used the truss pattern and it worked out very well.
Fourth, of course, shows a plank being glued up and clamped into place.
Fifth photo, I flipped upside down so you could see the boat right side up. Hope I didn't make you seasick...
The other photo is of a little stripper I built my daughter last summer and the message she left for me in the dust covering the boat. Sweet kid. Put her through college AND built her a boat. What a Dad!

I've been working on the outer stems, outer keel and rubrails. More photos to follow as I go along. The big excitement comes in the spring when I attempt to get the boat out of the basement!
Thorne
02-22-2010, 07:56 PM
Very nice!
Clinton B Chase
02-22-2010, 08:14 PM
Gorgeous! Please keep us posted.

Clint Chase
JimConlin
02-22-2010, 08:30 PM
Excellent!
Richard Jones
03-30-2010, 12:26 PM
I just popped the boat off the building form the other day. Lots of tedious sanding to do on the inside before I get to the deck beams. Hopefully, I'll launch by early summer. With five to six inches of rain in the past two days, I could launch in my back yard!
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Thorne
03-30-2010, 04:00 PM
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Wow! What interesting lines...
davebrown
03-30-2010, 07:55 PM
really lovely. i bought the recent book on building one of these from the lines on the virginia, and damned if i haven't left it on an airplane somewhere.
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03-31-2010, 08:12 AM
This collection really looks great in person.
Richard Jones
06-24-2010, 09:01 PM
The Challenge: Getting a 15' pulling boat up these stairs and out of the basement. Foundation wall is 3' in front of stairs, so no straight run up the stairs.

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Solution: Remove the stairs!

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Boat goes out as planned.(and prayed for!) You can see the floor timbers I glued in place to stiffen the bottom of the hull.

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This is the first time I've been able to get a good look at the boat. A basement workshop is lousy for standing back and sighting lines. Having a 28 year old son to help with the heavy lifting is a great help! Another month or so and the boat will be ready to launch.

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Thorne
06-25-2010, 11:05 AM
Solution: Remove the stairs!

QUE: House collapses slowly into the basement, leaving boat standing proud out of the ruins with not a scratch on it...

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Great work, keep the photos coming. You can post 'em larger, y'know...
amish rob
06-25-2010, 04:03 PM
If your son were 8, rather than 28, Thorne's prophecy may have come true. My 8 year old helps me all the time. Twenty years can make a big difference in one's handiness factor.
I like the idea of using up all the rest to make a boat almost as much as I like the boat.
Not that it matters much, but what does it weigh? Couldn't be much.
Richard Jones
06-25-2010, 05:24 PM
If your son were 8, rather than 28, Thorne's prophecy may have come true. My 8 year old helps me all the time. Twenty years can make a big difference in one's handiness factor.
I like the idea of using up all the rest to make a boat almost as much as I like the boat.
Not that it matters much, but what does it weigh? Couldn't be much.

I built a 16' Rushton canoe a few years ago using the same methods and materials. That boat was about 52lbs. This one has heavier seats, floorboards and a bit more trim, so that'll add another few pounds. Enough that I want to purchase a trailer to drag it around with instead of cartopping.. Trailex makes a nice one, but it's $800-$900!! I'll probably end up with a standard small trailer and hope it doesn't bounce the boat to pieces.