What are you building?

[jalmberg]

Since I'm in the process of choosing my next boat to build, I started wondering what other people are building. So I thought I'd ask!

If you are actually building a boat at this moment, please post a brief note with designer and model (like "Atkin / Cabin Boy")

Other details that might be interesting: the construction method you're using (like plank on frame, glue lap, strip plank, etc), and where you're building her (basement, garage, under a tarp in the backyard, etc.). A photo would be great, too, but optional.

Also, the status of your build, like "Lofting", "Planking", "Fitting out", etc. "Planning" is a valid status, I guess! "Dreaming"... maybe not.

Thanks! I think this could be an interesting survey.

[sailboy3]

Catspaw Dinghy~ 'bout 1/3 planked.

[coelacanth2]

This could be kinda like "Clue". Joel White's Nutshell 9'6" in the basement, fitting out the interior.

[DavidF]

Oughtred's Haiku -- Model stage, like this one

[Breakaway]

David Beede Summerbreeze (free plans, first boat). Sharpie Skiff. Glue 'n Screw Plywood. Its just about a rowboat now; still gotta make the spars, rudder, tiller and board. 11'8" LOA. Sides scarfed, bottom butted. 6 mm Okoume.

Build Thread:

http://forum.woodenboat.com/showthre...ild&highlight=

Recent Pic:

[peter radclyffe]

i'm lofting a 9 mt baltic cutter

[perldog007]

Bolger light dory, my overgrown back lot, pics on thread in this section.

[ThomRose]

What do you mean by "at this moment"? If you mean what I am actually spending time on every week, then I have nothing. If you mean a project that I am in the middle of that a bunch of "honey-do's" got in the way of, then I am working on an Arch Davis designed Laughing Gull, glue lap, in my garage. I got the boat with the frames, floor, and bottom complete. The price was right (free) because the fellow who started it was going through a divorce and had to clean out his garage. I got as far as adding the planking, and fairing the hull. The to do list from SWMBO is almost complete (to the extent they ever are), and I plan to start a thread with information and photos about the build as soon as I get back to it.

I have to hurry up and get the project restarted because I am already thinking about the next project.

[Lewisboater]

Finishing sheathing my Lake Scow...it has already seen water earlier this summer but it was only about 80% done. Sheathing and fitting furniture to TadPole...around 50% done.

[Tallman]

Ken Bassett's Firefly Double, stretched to 23.5'.
Keel and stem on, transom cut out of ply but needs to be framed up.

[Wacoflyr]

Joel White Pooduck, just off the jig. Glued lapstrake. This is my first real build, intended to teach my daughter to sail in. It is in my basement, and it looks bigger than I thought it would. Finding wood for the rails and mast has been a struggle, as was the decision on what type of plywood.(meranti) Most of all, this has been a tremendous leap out of my comfort zone into a to something that is both dangerous and exciting. My workmanship is lacking at times, but what I have accomplished pleases me to no end. With little or no experience, all decisions are fraught with danger. My latest is on the finish, and I'm still going around on that one. I wish I had a mentor, but maybe making my own mistakes is the best way. Good luck with your decision, and I enjoyed your blog very much.

Wacoflyr

[jimkeen]

Bolger Diablo 15. In the garage fitting out the insides. Also looking for the elusive 20HP long shaft tiller outboard that will power it.
PS Stich and glue NOT tack and tape

[spirit]

I'm finishing a five by eighteen foot flat-bottomed power skiff ("Spirit") to my design, in my 24 x 29-foot garage. It is my first build.

The materials: 5 x 10-foot sheets of okoume BS1088 marine plywood, 1 x 1-inch chine logs cut with a Festool saw from Cambara mahogany decking, Raka epoxy thickened with fumed silica and powdered maple, 6-oz glass cloth and 10-ounce tape, bronze ring nails, two-part water-based polyurethane paint, and stainless hardware. I picked up a new four-stroke 25 HP Honda yesterday.

Some features of the boat are;
(1) a relatively narrow and high and decked bow, to minimize pounding, give a large dry, lockable bow compartment, and help give a very springy sheer line,
(2) two 5 x 5-foot cockpits with high freeboard and rounded handholds everywhere, to keep in the grandkids,
(3) a vertical 3-foot high sheet of plywood "console" in the center, to hang onto when boarding from a dock or the water, etc.,
(4) a high rear deck for good visibility while seated and tiller-steering,
(5) an oarlock for a sculling oar.

[m2c1Iw]

Herreshoff Coquina plans by D Hylan in glued lap. Started planking this week.

[JPhoenix]

Paperjet 14

[gibetheridge]

Two fwd ends of Charles Beetle 29' whaleboat scaled down to 21', with 1" added beam and a bit more hollow to the entrance at the water line. Laminated YC stems, D fir batten keel and keel. Garboard is 2 layers of 1/8 X 3 WRC veneers cold molded over 1/4 X 3/4 WRC strips. 2 glued lap planks above waterline 1/2" WRC strip built. All planking glass/epoxy both sides. Trimmed out in AYC. Glueing up/fitting the last plank. In my shop.

[Woxbox]

Skin-on-frame Greenland style kayak. 17' by 19" lashed up in the traditional manner. Frame's done, now I'm learning to sew.

[wdbeyer]

Ocracoke 20 by B&B. Carolina center console, cold-molded. Frames all set, keel and stem this weekend.

[orbb]

WB's Lumberyard skiff. Side planks are attached to the stem, and she is sitting on the midship mold. When I get back from out of town, attaching the transom and steam bending the keel batten.

[jboats]

Michael Storer's Goat Island Skiff (http://www.storerboatplans.com/GIS/GISplan.html)

Competing for history's slowest build.

[Flying Orca]

Phil Swift's Shilling, the cabin version, a very pretty little gaff yawl; cedar strip glassed inside and out. Build was sidetracked for nearly a year due to other projects and the accidental acquisition of a house, but I''m just getting back to work fitting out the cockpit and cabin. Building in my dad's basement shop (yes, we can get it out!), about an hour north of my house. There's a link to my build blog in my sig, and some time in August I should even have a new update to post.

[Gary Davis]

Vivier's Beg-Meil.

Very nice kit acquired from Clint Chase. In my garage which I am currently sharing with my son as he rebuilds a Volvo engine - so space is limited for a few more days. Fabricated/veneered some of the bulkheads and CB case from cherry and transom from walnut. Need to steam-bend the walnut outer stem. Currently gluing CNC-cut plank scarfs waiting on my son to vacate. May start to FG inside of CB case before we leave for vacation Tuesday. No instructive images to post.

Gary Davis

[switters]

Michael Storer's Goat Island Skiff (http://www.storerboatplans.com/GIS/GISplan.html)

Competing for history's slowest build.

Nah, I bought plans in 2007. I might build the centerboard case this winter.

[Faeringman]

Good thread John! As you know, I'm building an Atkin Valgerda, a 19' faering. I'm close to finishing, closer than I've ever been before! I have to show the boat in a boat show Aug. 21 so that's a firm deadline! (Of course I've let other firm deadlines slip.) It's finished to the point that I could row it, but I'm hoping to have the spars and rudder done so I can sail it too at the boat show on Aug. 21. Aug. 21... Aug. 21... Aug. 21...

A blog of the build is here: http://valgerda.blogspot.com/

Brandon

[Bill Huson]

Designer: Richard Woods. Boat: 14" wood/epoxy beach catamaran.

Built, varnished, mast & sails made, working on final details in prep of the maiden launch.

[Bill7254]

I'm building a Welsford Houdini yawl. The hull is finished except for final painting and some hardware mounting. I am currently looking for suitable material for the masts and spars.

[gert]

Iain Oughtred's Grey Seal, as a yawl.

[yesiam]

Refurbishing a Hartley 12 - again, I make the claim that I have the only serviceable TS12 in the US.

Wow - those pics of the Welsford Houdini yawl listed above will make a thrill run up you leg.

[yesiam]

....as well as the Grey Seal....

[lsimonson]

Joel White's Shellback dinghy following WB plans and Dow's book as my first build. Got gunwales on and am working on the seats.

[billy c]

Guillemot Expedition kayak WRC strip/rolling bevels

[P.L.Lenihan]

I can't believe it! So many folks building so many fine wooden boats and some just about to be launched and what, no lovely photo diary in the Building/Repair section for any of them? Jaysus H.Popsicle,why not?

Cheers!


Peter

[Chipito]

I'm doing an obscure Bolger canoe yawl, #433. I'm decking right now. Hope to get it wet this year. It's a combination of ply, strip and glued lap.
Jeff

[openboater]

Bolger Oldhsoe. 11'6" cat yawl keeled (200# lead) daysailer Just turned the hull this week.

[BC Bill]

20 -ft Oughtred Sooty Tern, (stretched, stretched Arctic Tern with molds @ 30")
Should be ready to plank by the end of this weekend - oops, guess I better find some plywood!
This is going much faster than the last two (IO Elfyn and Simmons Sea Skiff) as I am home most nights now.

[Kudzu]

Just walked out of the shop. Building a Skin on Frame Kayay, Firefly. This is my design

It's what I like to call a Modern Baidarka. Based on the traditional boat but with some modern twists. Fuselage construction, plywood frames, cedar stringers all lashed together with artificial sinew. Will be covered with Dacron skin.

[Geary]

Hartley TS14 Trailer Sailor

http://www.hartleyts14.blogspot.com/

Plywood on sawn-frame construction.

Flipped it over a few months ago and I'm building the deck, cockpit and cabin framing now. Should be done just in time for winter.

[Jlaup]

Alden Indian

Fitting floors and mast step.
Glued lap/ply on sawn frames.

[W Grabow]

18' powerboat, currently preparing to glass the deck, photo blog at developable-surface-boat-designs.blogspot.com

[David G]

I'm currently making spars and foils for a clients Welsford 'Janette' while he assembles the hull.

http://letshopeitfloats.posterous.com/

[mr mahogany]

I am building an 8 ft "classic dinghy" designed by john clark.. This is my first and after taking a break for a couple of weeks i am about to install my seats and hardware...These pics do not show how the gunwhales turned out.. but i cant wait to post those pics... they look great.. ( i made them out of zebra wood and cocobolo) I will post tons of pics when she is finished

[chuckm]

Grey Seal as a Sloop. But that could change , as the heat here as me confused and off-balance with dehydration

[Jim Ledger]

I can't believe it! So many folks building so many fine wooden boats and some just about to be launched and what, no lovely photo diary in the Building/Repair section for any of them? Jaysus H.Popsicle,why not?

Cheers!


Peter

Why not, indeed, Mr Lenihan, sir. This is my version of the Brewer Chapaquidick catboat...so far. I've been thinking of posting some photos and with your encouragement, I may just do so.

[P.L.Lenihan]

You're such a ham sometimes,Mr.Ledger. Thanks for the laughs!!


Cheers!

Peter

[basm]

Gary Dierkin's Ulua outrigger canoe stretched to 6m (all that the garage will allow).

It's strip planked in Kiri with 4mm okoume ply for decking and the bulkheads. The bare hull is ready (to be painted in spring) and out of the garage so that I can start on the outrigger and crossbeams.

[Adios]

Joel White's 23' centerboard sloop.






By the way...great idea for a thread.
John McFadden
Charleston, SC

[AnalogKid]

There's some really stunning boats going together out there.

My own shoddy effort is a Selway-Fisher Dart 16' double kayak, stitch and tape being built in my garage. It's actually further progressed than this photo, with the side panels and inwales on and the bulkheads in place.



I'm having a long hiatus at the halfway point while I mull over adding a retractable skeg and movable seats and footrests. I'm also halfway through restoring a Mini, painting the outside of the house, landscaping the gardens and decorating my son's bedroom (actually working on this last one) and there is also a Land Rover outside waiting to be united with a pile of shiny parts I'm gradually hoarding in the garage. Too many projects and not enough time...

[CundysHarbor]

Current project is a Joel White 23 foot sloop just like Adios. She will be strip planked with two layers of veneer at right angles. Status is very slowly making molds and setup. Ancillary project is making bow seats for the previous boat, an Ocean Pointer by Stimson. Real work will begin in the fall.
Dave

[woodpile]

After a generous amount of inspiration from seeing Dave's, (CundysHarbor), beautiful Ocean Pointer and Dick Nichols traditional West Point Skiff's, the Jericho Bay Lobster Skiff came along at a perfect time. Actually a slightly modified version from the plans, 6" added to length, a keelson added and interior will be set up primairly for fishing, small center console, floor, forward raised deck and side storage. Hull stripping is about 50% complete.

Don

[Triton570]

looks nice