Beautiful boat!
Veere is such a nice place. One of my favorite spot in the Netherland. As nice by boat as on bicycle.
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Beautiful boat!
Veere is such a nice place. One of my favorite spot in the Netherland. As nice by boat as on bicycle.
Or that one (1938):
https://www.yachtvillage.net/fr/detail/b4a3026e-6769-f7d9-bdc0-a1beb163ae47
Plenty of pics on that french add.
Looks like quite similar to that 1936 Chris Craft 16ft Special Race Boat:
https://sierraboat.com/product/runabouts/19-and-under-runabouts/1936-chris-craft-16ft-special-race-boat/
Many pics, some drawings and comments on Pete Goss's Oddity blog: https://petegoss.com/blog
Plenty of good idea in that boat.
1 example, the "cockpit door" that can act also as boarding platform...
Yesterday, I went in Netherlands for shopping Xmas decorations. They like to prepare diorama showing winter area. You can buy all and more to make your own mountain area, amusement park,... or...
It's from "23 Boats you can build" -- Popular Mechanics 1950, so maybe too "old style" for you.
But from pages 66 to 70, you can find plans and instruction for building the Featherweight "An...
The 2 boats on the right are inland water "péniche";
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A9niche_(barge)
Common on canals and main rivers (as the Meuse) in Netherlands, Belgium and north of France.
In simple words, lap is the vertical distance between the center of the bottom of the boat (where the keel should be if the boat have one) and the vertical reference.
Here you can see that from...
"Lisa B Good" document is interresting and from "our time".
I suggest you to compare with https://www.simplicityboats.com/coolwater.html. Its a similar project as well documented but from the...
Interresting that irish book.
Specialy the "rush raft" visible on one of the small pics on the back cover.
I'm curious to know more about that "cage boat"... but my curiosity is weaker than the...
For info, she's a traditional "barque plate" or "barque à fond plat" ("flat rowboat" or "flat bottomed rowboat").
Used since ages on rivers, lakes and other waterways in western Europe.
Today, they...
Plans can be found here, starting on page 126:
https://archive.org/details/1957-how-to-build-20-boats-n-362/page/126/mode/1up
Thanks for the info. I'm actually surfing on the net discovering your beautifull area and its boats.
I gave now a new "place I must visit" in my vacation wish list.
Nice pics. Great to have high rez view on the race after watching low rez webcam.
The first boat (with black "H1" on yellow panel) is really interresting.
"Slow motion" but fun to watch.
The (unfortunately past away) father of my best friend had a nice old style workshop with a beautiful old wood carpenter's bench, display boards with all his small tools directly available and a...
It seems that both Mermaid used in 1962 and its "recycled" replica Malt’s Mermaid III used in 2002 are stored in San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park.
That boat have many similarities to...
Version with images are downloadable for "e-reader".
As your examples that canoe is too small for your need.
But she is thinked to be used with her "trimaran kit":
http://www.kaamosboats.com/toucanoe.htm
On same site you'll find a bigger "family...
Really nice and interesting boats!
What size of both (lenght and beam)?
Tongue weight have to:
1) be less than max accepted by the car and hitch (read instructions)
2) addapted to the trailer --> with or witout brake
Here in Europe usual max tonge weight are:
40kg...
Thank-you Dave.
Very nice little turtle.
And happy birthday to your daughter!
Dave you'r teasing all reader's of that discussion ;-)
Please show us at least a draft of your creation.
Nice! And beautifully done.
Simple question: why not placing belts covering lever part of the new hooks?
As done it's a risk that something will catch that email part...
I think that you'll find some answers on the 5th page of that subject: http://forum.woodenboat.com/showthread.php?241672-Building-a-Ross-Lillistone-First-Mate/page5
Not a true open stern, but not far from what you are searching, the X-racer from Dave Gentry: http://gentrycustomboats.com/RacerXpage.html