Strip Planked Dory

[whitebd]

Here are some pics of the strip planked dory I'm building. Eventually she'll be a tender for a new H28 that I'm saving up for. No making fun of the "work area". Current space is limited.

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and here she is flipped for ribs

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[boatbear]

Well done; I personally love to see such a spacious uncluttered workspace. (Slightly shamefaced grin here). What is the design? What wood have you used for the strips?
Charlie

[Thorne]

Very nice - tell us more!

[Thad Van Gilder]

I agree. My only experience is with clinker banks dories and those plywood dynamite payson ones.

Never heard of a stripped one!!!!

-Thad

[whitebd]

The design is my own. She's approximately 12'6" long. The strips are 5/8" Western red cedar. Ribs and skeg will be Douglas fir. (white oak is hard to come by here in Texas) Bottom is double layer of 6mm Okume ply. Outer stem and outer transom will be Cherry. She'll get 6 oz fiberglass set in epoxy inside and out.
Why strip planked? I built two kayaks last year for me and my lovely bride. One was painted and the other strip. Wife loves the strip job and wanted the tender to be that way too. My initial plan was to do a lap job but said what the heck - let's give her a shot.

[Daniel Noyes]

Hi all
While wide lapstrake planking is the traditional and most popular way to plank a dory I too recently built a strip planked smooth sided dory of my own design. My client specified a fast smooth sided sailing boat for local bay's. I cut the bottom to shape, bent it on a strong back, installed frames, and strip planked the sides. Gardner has a carvel planked power dory from 1910 or so in his small craft book, and I first got the idea of strip planking when a carvel planked "Town Class" sailing dory came into the shop at Pert Lowell company. It was built in the 40's-50's
Dan
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[Gary Davis]

Dan,

What wood did you use, adhesive or nails, or both?

Any images?

Thanks - Gary

[wizbang 13]

Wonder what happened to the new H 28?

[patrice Hubert]

Hum... What the point to struggle with small and tiny battens while it's quite more easy and faster to plank a dory hull with 4 or 5 planks cut in a ply panel ?
Look the shape of a dory: The bottom need to have "rock", and this drive the gardbord an next planks to rise up to the stem and the transom. That is the "fair effect" and this fair is just the sheer spirit of dory boat, and make the hull fair to your eyes...
So the gardbord must be narrow at midship and wider at the ends...
How can you get this result using strip planking , still any strip battens are the same width ?

[James McMullen]

No rocker, no sheer, very, very heavy scantlings, very much shorter than the typical dory. . Somehow I doubt that was a completely successful experiment. And you can see at a glance that it's not going to be a friendly tender to tow.

My criticism is intended to be constructive, not personal. A tender shaped like this is not particularly safe.

[wizbang 13]

Cut rocker out of the chine and glue the cut off on to the sheer.

maybe the sides are not finished yet?
She will def not tow
I could build a strip planked dory, but why? I could sng at least 4 of ply in the same time.