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For goodness sakes, ask Sam Devlin!

I gave away the one I built.

Why twice the designer's HP?

Is this it?

http://www.thomasjhillboatdesigns.com/the_long_point.html

Bilateral herpes zoster is very uncommon, and you were very unlucky to have it in both eyes.
Good luck with treatment.

Buy the most powerful corded Toro (Lowes has it). It is compact, easily handled and outstanding.

I'm going to push you a little
towards a minimum power skiff, which can be rowed, but which can also perform very well with a little power:
John Harris's Peeler Skiff, available as a complete kit...

Electricity is pricey, but it is easy to use only when and where it is needed, and it is odorless.

I gave mine to a charity because I designed a radically different flat-bottomed skiff, and have had it built for me.
My Bolger-clone had a 25 HP Honda 4-stroke, and topped out at 29 mph with 2...

I used 5 x 10-foot sheets of 3/4" okoume marine plywood (single layer) for the bottom of my Clam Skiff.

For his Lumberyard Skiff, Walter Baron laminates two layers of 1/2" marine plywood (cut from...

I built a slightly sleeker version of Bolger's clam skiff, without the heavy shoe.
It had practically no wake at 20-25 mph.
It is a fabulous boat, despite some banging in a chop.

Bolger's 15.5' work skiff is described by Dynamite Payson in his "Instant Boats." It is shorter than the 18' foot clam skiff, and narrower (4' beam) as well.

A cargo canoe with a small sail and a small outboard...

I doubt that you will need flotation unless you plan eventually to sell your boat.
Flotation is fussy, adds quite a lot of weight, and takes up a lot of space you thought would be useful for keeping...

Beautiful!

The joint should be the same.
If you butt your pieces before cutting out their finished shapes, then you can see whether or not the whole piece is marked as you want it to be.
If you work with...

Perhaps ban all handguns?
They hardly qualify for the second amendment:

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of the state, the right of the people to bear Arms, shall not be...

20 HP is enough.

I leave mine on its trailer.
I bring in the battery, to keep it trickle-charged.
Repair any bare wood before storage.
Cover the boat well, especially if it does not have a drain.
If it does have...

Sad. One of the very best things every Spring...

I hope that WoodenBoat will expand its monthly section on launchings and re-launchings, so that we can see some of the new ideas that are...

Several questions, in no particular order:
(1) Does the boat drain well if right side up? If not, then the cover needs to work very well, and you need to appraise the situation frequently.
(2) Must...

For heaven's sakes, ask John Harris how he does it!

When you are up in the wilds, do you ever (like Slocum) have any of the natives on your decks (he had Indians; you might have bears), or do they stay ashore?
I am trying to picture you and your new...

Sam Devlin's Dipper 19?

It sounds like an odd thing to do, but could this mast be turned on a lathe, and the glass peeled off?
Then the wood could be re-glassed and the epoxy covered with a suitable UV blocker.

Consider erisma uncinatum. My lumberyard sells it for decking, sometimes under the name cambara, and sometimes called dark red balau.
It is beautiful, dense, smooth, easily worked, easy to epoxy and...

Have you looked at Tom Lathrop's Bluejacket?

See bluejacketboats.com

Looks like junk.

Why not ask Walter Baron at Old Wharf Dory, who designed the LYS.
He went through a series of steps to perfect his design.

From my point of view, this is one of the simplest boats to build of any...

I am finding it difficult to compare Tom Hill's Pamet Blue with Ross Lillistones's Fleet.

Would the designers or others help?

Wonderful advice above.

Get the book "Raising Cain." It's for raising a boy, but it is equally applicable for girls.
My take on the book is "be where the kid is."

And be yourself. This girl...

"glass is much stronger under compression than tension"
This doesn't make any sense to me either.
Sheath the outside of your boat. Period.

Your requirement: "11) fit in my garage for building and storage on trailer, on a lifting platform strung into the rafters. (15' LOA max?, see below)
Note: Interior space of garage is: 12' high and...

The original hull looks interesting, but the added prow and cabin and hardtop look amateurish.
If the original hull is sound, and you can buy the whole shebang for $5000, and you don't mind...

This is an old thread, but it does not mention a potentially worthy addition.
It is well known that some fabrics like xynole are "stretchy" enough when embedded in epoxy to provide considerable...

Most trailer companies will add a few feet as needed. They did for my Karavan...

Definitely a 5 x 18-foot Bolger clam skiff.

Check all the wooden surfaces that could be damaged, especially the keel, stem, gunwales and drain hole.

Good luck.

Amazing. A politician who talks sense.
I hope he gets more attention.

This from Wikipedia:


Turmeric and curcumin, one of its constituents, have been studied in numerous clinical trials for various human diseases and conditions, but the conclusions have either been...

Get one that has drains for the seat and foot wells.

I am keeping only the issues from the last decade.

Boulter Plywood gives the weights of 4 x 8-foot sheets of 5-ply marine plywood 6mm thick as 18 pounds for okoume and 31 pounds for meranti.
Six sheets of meranti for your boat would weigh an extra...

A lot depends upon the kind(s) of waters you wish to be in.
For rough offshore water you will be happiest in a V-bottomed boat, even at 15 knots. And a windshield helps. Consider Atkin's Ninigret....

Is that you and your lady-love, rbgarr?

My guess is that his little boat will roll so much
that his brain will not be able to make any useful decisions.
UGH!

I have a question about paint hardness.
I used a water-based 2-part polyurethane paint on my skiff, over a well prepared epoxy/glass surface.
The paint is still in excellent shape after 7 years.
I...

Stability... appropriate for all ages
Capacity... comfortable seats for 2-6 family members
Shallow draft... for easy trailering, launching, exploring and beaching
Planing speed with modest power...

For cruising catamarans of equal size, what is the difference in daily speed between a fast boat and a slower boat?

[QUOTE=JimConlin;5704330] There's a section in the Gougeon Brothers book on estimating. They say 13 square feet per pound of mixed resin.

Thanks Jim. I looked for but missed that excellent...

I need to laminate several large sheets of 3/4" okoume marine plywood with epoxy.
I expect to fasten the sheets together with temporary screws about every foot, plus edge clamps. All the necessary...