ready for the water to smoot out

[Falcon500]

She'll probably ride rough when the water is hard;)

My first solo boat DONE:D

my John Gardener Merrymeeting bay sculling float complete with sculling oar and ye olde outboard-e

sorry about photo quality maybe next weekend ill take pictures with sunlight

i moved it today from my bosses' shop to the garage for now.


http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/3505/1000613sy5.th.jpg (http://img18.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1000613sy5.jpg)

http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/6060/1000616ke6.th.jpg (http://img26.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1000616ke6.jpg)

http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/3483/1000619mp0.th.jpg (http://img26.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1000619mp0.jpg)

data: 15ft loa 56" beam (steaming error)
white ash keel and frames
northern white cedar planking and decking
pine coamings
kinda a mix of strip planking and traditional with 28 frames and up to 5" planks but epoxy and fiberglassed
and red oak ( i know :rolleyes:) soles
im still debating on whether or not to make a lumberyard pine mast and using it for down wind square sailing

[Gold Rock]

Very nice, and very appropriately upper midwest!

[Falcon500]

new pics in the light and in focus

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/3523/duckb021jg2.th.jpg (http://img140.imageshack.us/my.php?image=duckb021jg2.jpg)

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/9188/duckb022un6.th.jpg (http://img88.imageshack.us/my.php?image=duckb022un6.jpg)

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/9608/duckb025gz1.th.jpg (http://img88.imageshack.us/my.php?image=duckb025gz1.jpg)




and for the guys who like a nice aft

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/8839/duckb024ot4.th.jpg (http://img88.imageshack.us/my.php?image=duckb024ot4.jpg)

[Thorne]

Sweet!

[JimConlin]

Let's get our terminology straight.

'smoot' is a unit of measure, being the height (about 5'7") of an MIT undergraduate, Oliver R. Smoot (class of 1962). Smoot gained immortality when his fraternity brothers used him to measure the Massachusetts Avenue bridge which links Cambridge and Boston. The measured length of the bridge was 364.4 smoots +- one ear.

Having personally become a standard of measure, Smoot's career was ordained. He later became chairman of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and president of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).

In Google Earth, the 'Ruler' tool shows distances in feet, meters, miles, and even smoots.

[Falcon500]

i guess that makes my boat a 2.73 smoot class sculler

[Canoez]

So does that mean if peak-to-trough wave height is about 5'-7" those are Smoot seas?

:p

[Concordia...41]

You guys can debate Smootness ;)

I think that's an awesome job on and awesome boat!

- M

[Falcon500]

thanks guys, it was quite an adventure building it, i used a lot of local resources most of the wood is local and i purchased everything within the state. I started it at the boat school (a practice i think they dont allow anymore) and put the deck on and finished it in my boss's shop.

Now that i have completed one project i am itching for another and i was looking at the Handy Andy, Atkins design http://www.boat-links.com/Atkinco/Dinks/HandyAndy.html (http://www.boat-links.com/Atkinco/Dinks/HandyAndy.html)

I think i like the design enough to give it a whirl, it seams to be a strip built canvas cover dingy, which i am taking a liking to, and i wanted to build a boat that can be sailed (i have never sailed before though) but i did go on a historic tall ship the Madeline, so i did sail but i dont think it counts. does anyone have any experience with the Handy Andy, he/she seems to be a smooth sailor and looks to be a gorgeous little boat:)

[dpincus]

You don't have to wait for the water to smoot out if you sail a Tech Dinghy.

http://www.technologyreview.com/article/18677/