InTheBeech
05-02-2008, 07:39 AM
It seems as though this specific forum is more applicable to my "designs" question in spite of the fact that there is another that is more accurately titled. Her is where the real builders reside it seems (with due apologies to any who are offended).
I am finishing up (last coat of paint,skeg, wear strips and oars) my first boat, a flat-bottomed, lapstrake rowing skiff of ten feet. I have finished Chapelle's and Bud's books on building but don't feel quite ready to go it alone with but the typical set of plans by themselves, given that I'd now like to truly experience traditional construction (carvel, steamed frames, sawn backbone, half-deck'd) as well as go up in size and investment. The individual skills such as steaming, planning gains, spilling, lofting, copper rivetting, were all learned building my current boat, but considering that I am looking at a class of boats in the "O'boat" or Atkins' "Catnip" category (14-18 foot, beamy daysailer) with half-decks, real keels, centerboards, standing rigging..., and that I'm comming from a boat who's construction booklet described the sequence as well as every size screw to be used everywhere, I am stepping up considerably. So I'd like to find a design with an accompanying construction booklet that may be compared to the How-To's that exist for such boats as the Catspaw, Shellback Dinghy and others; but there doesn't seem to be this auxilliary information for those boats that are a level above in size and complexity. Perhaps there is just another boatbuilding text that comes closer to being capable of walking an intermediate through the process, that I don't know about? It need not be specific to a particular design as long as it is sequential and intended to be followed (and of course the plans be more detailed than most which is a search that I am currently undertaking).
Thanks All,
Ed
I am finishing up (last coat of paint,skeg, wear strips and oars) my first boat, a flat-bottomed, lapstrake rowing skiff of ten feet. I have finished Chapelle's and Bud's books on building but don't feel quite ready to go it alone with but the typical set of plans by themselves, given that I'd now like to truly experience traditional construction (carvel, steamed frames, sawn backbone, half-deck'd) as well as go up in size and investment. The individual skills such as steaming, planning gains, spilling, lofting, copper rivetting, were all learned building my current boat, but considering that I am looking at a class of boats in the "O'boat" or Atkins' "Catnip" category (14-18 foot, beamy daysailer) with half-decks, real keels, centerboards, standing rigging..., and that I'm comming from a boat who's construction booklet described the sequence as well as every size screw to be used everywhere, I am stepping up considerably. So I'd like to find a design with an accompanying construction booklet that may be compared to the How-To's that exist for such boats as the Catspaw, Shellback Dinghy and others; but there doesn't seem to be this auxilliary information for those boats that are a level above in size and complexity. Perhaps there is just another boatbuilding text that comes closer to being capable of walking an intermediate through the process, that I don't know about? It need not be specific to a particular design as long as it is sequential and intended to be followed (and of course the plans be more detailed than most which is a search that I am currently undertaking).
Thanks All,
Ed