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Umiak. Just putting it out there. You know, one of those big, robust skin-on-frame row boats from the Arctic. Basically build one any size you like. Even a fairly sizable one would be cartoppable.

Umiak.

Someone on this forum told me a year or more ago that Skip Snaith's book Umiak was a must for people like me, but it appeared to be out of print (sellers listed on Amazon will let you have used...

Way to go, Saltiguy!

Just saw Imi Loa on the Launchings page in the new WB mag. And I want one. A big, plunging daysailer with room for everybody. Too bad I don't have room to build one or money to buy one.

My kids and I enjoyed riding the Badger in June on our way to Charlevoix and Ann Arbor. Free movie (Vantage Point), free bingo (yippee!), playroom for little kids, video arcade for bigger kids. But...

In the late '70's (ninth grade) I built a little plywood runabout from a kit (which I think came from Glen-L). My first kitless adult boat was Monk's 12' skiff.

Incidentally, my OSS also does...

Worse than socks with sandals....

zomg! I think I started an ugly boat thread years back, but there may have been another in the interim. In any case, that is a sure winner. It looks to me like someone wished they had some kind of...

Strip-planking is the worst boatbuilding method ever? What about ferrocement?

What did I tell you?

Hmm. This promises to be one of the most interesting threads ever.

Excellent. Thank you! Next step: I get Snaith's book. I like the idea of a SOF cartoppable rowboat, light as a feather. I think Al Gore would approve, too--a wooden boat that uses very few trees.

James--any pics of your umiak? Or at least some details....

Take a look also (the list is getting long, isn't it?) at Steve Redmond's Bluegill
http://www.sredmond.com/index_boat.htm

How well does a Simmons 18 measure up to the design parameters, I wonder?

Rowing rocks. So does paddling, but rowing...ah, rowing. Rowing. Mmmm.

Bump. I'm thinking a skin-on-frame peapod would make a nice rower. Anyone know whether Huisjen ever built his? Most of the links in this thread are dead.

Gee, for $13,795 Canadian you could get a 26-foot Lunenburg Seine dory. Apples and oranges, I know.

Don't forget www.gaboats.com
One of their whitehalls might be just what you need.

How about Nexus Marine's version of the St. Pierre dory? http://www.nexusmarine.com/st_pierre.html

or one of Stambaugh's larger Redwings?...

Gotta love Tom Hill's Long Point: http://www.thomasjhillboatdesigns.com/the_long_point.html

Ahhh...that's the stuff.

I know, but it's never enough.

Caskillet--we need a photo of your boat. Right now. Please?

Check out the Redwing 26 at www.cmdboats.com

Not as lean as Tennessee, but a handsome plywood displacement cruiser nonetheless.

The fact that he didn't build it stitch & glue is no cause for alarm. S&G is just one of the designer's options. I think the design was first offered as glue & screw.

Depends on where you are/what kind of pine. I have found southern yellow pine to be almost like a hardwood, and I depend on it for stems, frames, stringers, etc. It is best to choose the...

A wineglass transom. No--sorry. I'd say first add some rocker.

Take a look at the 20' version of the Lumber Yard Skiff by Walter Baron, at least to get some sense of what such a boat might look like and all: http://www.oldwharf.com/ow_workskiffs.html

Um, with respect--this thread is the first one in which I found myself cheering on Erster. A historical moment for me.

I bet there are some double-ended hulls at www.atkinboatplans.com that could be adapted--some inboard auxiliaries whose layouts could be altered and rigs omitted to create a very similar vessel.

Shazam!

Check out the 20' Lumberyard Skiff at http://www.oldwharf.com/

Simple build, rugged, capacious.

ROFL. Classic case of over-zooming (the camera, not the boat).

It was built back in the '70's, but it's new...?

Coincidentally, I just found this: http://www.cam.org/~rsilver/presben.htm
Print out the article, the instructions (see link at bottom), and the chart.
Haven't tried it yet, but supposedly keeps...

Keep in mind that you may be able to "steam" the chines by wrapping them with towels, pouring on boiling water, then wrapping the whole mess in plastic sheeting and letting it sit for an hour.

If...

I agree that a pram (or garvey) is good way to get high capacity in less length--almost twice as much room as a 12' dory, which would really be a one-person boat.

Around here there is a very similar hull called a Lafitte skiff--lots of forward flare. You might try a web search (Yachtworld?) for Lafitte skiff and see if you turn up anything.

Totally.

Hey gang--

My nice wife and my two nice daughters try to spend a month or more each summer subletting an apartment or small house in a nice place--last year it was NYC; this year it was to be...

Hey gang--

My nice wife and my two nice daughters try to spend a month or more each summer subletting an apartment or small house in a nice place--last year it was NYC; this year it was to be...

I think the truck-based, RWD Astro is a very different animal than the car-based, FWD Town&Country/Caravan.

I wonder if a 1.8T Passat (automatic) can tow 1500 pounds? Don't ask me why I wonder...

Cats don't like water, either. I guess you could use them as moveable ballast, too. Think I'll try it.

Is that for real? Ol' Ike's looking like a modern-day Nostradamus.

The website says such craft are capable of crossing oceans. I have a hard time picturing one in 15' seas...?

Bruce is merely the organizer of http://www.woodenboatrescue.org not the owner of all of these boats. "Rescue" is the key word.

Some guy with a metal detector hit the jackpot.

I used to play around in Lake Pontchartrain surf in a whitewater kayak. Don't think I'd want to try it in such straight-tracking sea kayaks.

Don't watch the "follow up vid" unless you've taken...