Coracle plans

[Zacko]

I'm looking for plans for building a traditional English or Welsh coracle. I have seen references to Hornell's books, but they are out of print and hard to come by.

I would appreciate any help.

Thanks in advance,

Zacko

[Nicholas Carey]

Originally posted by Zacko:
I'm looking for plans for building a traditional English or Welsh coracle. I have seen references to Hornell's books, but they are out of print and hard to come by.Coracles aren't really built 'to plan'. They are built like a basket, upside down on the ground.

You might want to ferry over to the Center for Wooden Boats in Seattle http://www.cwb.org/ -- we've got a coracle hanging in the main boathouse.

Here's a web site: http://www.tywi-coracle.co.uk/ -- you can order a 'how to build' video from them. Since it's British, its probably PAL video instead of NTSC video, which means you'll either need a PAL VCR or need to get somebody to convert it (there's several places here in Seattle that will do that, for a fee).

Some other web sites:

The Coracle Society:
http://www.coracle-society.org/

How to build one particular type of coracle:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/christopher.sauvarin/UCK_AND_OUSE_CORACLES.pdf (you'll need green hazel or willow withies, tho.)

Another coracle builder's experience:
http://enterprise.aacc.cc.md.us/%7Erhs/Coracle/index.html

An MIT student applies his engineering experience to the art of coracle building at http://www.mit.edu/people/robot/coracle/coracle.html

Yet another coracle maker: http://www.coracle-fishing.net/

The Greenwood Trust: http://www.greenwoodtrust.org.uk/

The story of Alphi's construction: http://www.aardvark-world.org.uk/canals/alphi/index.htm

That should get you going.