What are you building?

[Maximus]

The goal...

I thought it looked pretty cool with the centerboard put in.


These photos were from two weeks ago, I've done a lot of sanding and hopefully in another two weeks will be ready to paint.

-Brent

[mhtimber]

Gerr Marine 28' Offshore Skiff, plywood plank on frame, taped seem construction. Assembling frames, setting up building form, erecting frames. Just finished laminating stem.

[benthriftb]

Here is photo of my current project, Oughtred's Shearwater. Eight planks on and going well !!]

[mikefrommontana]

First build on a Bolger Teal. Will be building with variations (air boxes fore and aft). Still need decking and lots of paint/varnish/finish work.

[maraíocht]

Recently (okay, in May of this year) finished building an adirondack guideboat, now building a lapstrake (glued lap) canoe, 15 foot

http://www.duck-trap.com/2002can.html

No pics yet, as I'm just now getting out the moulds, but soon. . .

[gofish]

I am building a CB Boatworks 18 Bluewater.
She is an 18' outboard powered center console.
Cold-molded over a jig- all the lines of a Carolina Sportfisher.
Bottom is complete and currently she is getting last layer of topside planking.
Build is in the garage.

[mmd]

Professionally, a 79-ft (24m) all-aluminum fireboat for Massachusetts Port Authority.
Personally, restoring a 1969 Bristol 24 sloop made of the other stuff.
Future build - an 8-ft pram for the above. I haven't designed it yet, though.

[JoelM]

I'm half way through cutting out the planks for my Selway-Fisher Stornoway 9. I chose it because it seemed like an easy (stich and glue) project for my first build, yet it still has pretty good looks.

[JimD]

A pair of 12 foot amas for a kayak.

[bobbyk]

Lofting out an 18' runabout called Tern by Edwin Monk. Anyone ever built anything by him or know of websites with pictures? Just curious to see others work.

[xsboats]

I am currently building a Jim Brown/John Marples designed Seaclipper 20 trimaran. [2nd one ] The best thing is, this one's for my own use. Pic's of the first one are on the thread named for the boat.[ also shown in my avatar] #2 , "Janganda" will sport a Hobie 18 rig and sails and will carry a Freedom 21 spinnaker.

[jsjpd1]

Finished a Caledonia Yawl last year.



I'm currently building Dave Gentry's skin on frame wherry Ruth.

[andy mac]

Strip kayak of cedar and huon pine - Hans Friedel designed Excursion...now complete. Oughtred Shearwater, gaboon ply & huon pine now underway.

[Y Bar Ranch]

Redfish kayak Spring Run. Hull finished, stripping the deck now. I'll try to get a pix in.

[cybuilder]

Iain Oughtred's Caledonia Yawl, construction mostly complete, painting must wait for warmer weather next spring. Launch summer 2011.

[Michael D. Storey]

I find it interesting that the huge majority of persons actually building something do not waste much, if any, time in The Bilge.....
Jusayin

[SMARTINSEN]

I find it interesting that the huge majority of persons actually building something do not waste much, if any, time in The Bilge.....
Jusayin

Right now, I am not building anything. Besides wasting my time in the Bilge (), I am trying to get out on the water as much as possible before winter really sets in. It has been mild, and we are trying to take the best advantage of it.

In a few weeks I will start on a Pathfinder, or Navigator, perhaps. Or maybe a Ninegret.........

[Michael D. Storey]

Right now, I am not building anything. Besides wasting my time in the Bilge (), I am trying to get out on the water as much as possible before winter really sets in. It has been mild, and we are trying to take the best advantage of it.

In a few weeks I will start on a Pathfinder, or Navigator, perhaps. Or maybe a Ninegret.........

It's been years since the Choptank had any hard ice. I'll tell ya, the sound an aluminum canoe makes when it serves as an ice breaker will keep you alert. I sail an International 14 all year over there. The Bay is another story.

[WoodenPontoon]

I'm putting the finishing touches on my 22 1/2' Tri-Hulled Wooden Pontoon. This is my own design and has been in process for over 14 years now. Outboard hulls are strip-built. Center hull is cold-molded. I've had it in the water a few times .... unfinished but functional.

[aldebaran]

At this moment I´m building a little pram/tender for my 27´sailboat:


I designed it myself in order to make it fit on the deck of my boat. Its flat bottom, 4 strakes a side lapstrake plywood. Its almost finished

[Zippybean]

I just started my Swifty 14 kit. You can follow my progress on www.zippybean.com

[rowerwet]

really getting to the shallow end here, currently putting the finishing touches on a square mouse as well as finishing the hull on a flats rat, both from mouseboats@yahoogroups. glued with PLconstruction adhesive.
plan on starting one of flow mo's boats next

[Sailor]

Redbird Canoe. Check out my progress thread and let me know what you think.

[Sailor]

At this moment I´m building a little pram/tender for my 27´sailboat:


I designed it myself in order to make it fit on the deck of my boat. Its flat bottom, 4 strakes a side lapstrake plywood. Its almost finished

Cool little boat. You'll have to be sure to let us know how she handles once you splash her.

[Sharpie21]

Wooden Pontoon, what a wickedly, wonderfully weird boat you have built (post # 121). Showing some fine craftsmanship in those console details.,

[WoodenPontoon]

Wooden Pontoon, what a wickedly, wonderfully weird boat you have built (post # 121). Showing some fine craftsmanship in those console details.,

Thanks for the compliments! I think...... weird? The console panels are curly maple from my Grandfather's tree in Washington state. I have include a link to another post on this site showing some of the build.

http://forum.woodenboat.com/showthre...Wooden-Pontoon

[Robert Abernethy]

Building a St Lawrence skiff. We used the old boat for the pattern

[aldebaran]

"Cool little boat. You'll have to be sure to let us know how she handles once you splash her."

I will post when she´s been in the water. Right now, paint is drying, its darn cold and I need to make oars. Here´s how she looks now (drying)

[botebum]

Thanks for the compliments! I think...... weird?

I'm sure it was meant as a compliment. When I first saw your boat on another thread my first reaction was "That's Funky Cool!"
It's all good

Doug

[Eddiebou]

What am I building? So glad you asked. It's a copy of an old chesapeake 2 masted sailing skiff. It was built by an old bayman in my home town (Coles Point, Va) named Watt Herbert. You can see him sailing on it in the closing scene of the Nat Geo Society documentary "Chesapeake Born". This segment was filmed right in front of my parents house. I sailed on this boat when I was a kid, and bailed it out a few times and helped haul it up after Watt died. Then I never saw it again for 20+ years. Then I found it in a field june '09. It now sits behind my shop to serve as a reference for the new one, Katie-K-II.

[jacketch]

I've started on a 1/4 scale model of the Marc Barto 16' Melonseed. If it works out I'll go ahead with a full size skiff.

[Raka025]

I am building some laminated ribs...for a not so new yawl!

[viking north]

Converting a 30ft. life/surf boat hull into a 50/50 motorsailer. Hull is glass but deck, superstructure, and interior will be of the finest woods as left over supply stock,from my past cabinet making, furniture making, ship salvage and boatbuilding buisness. Presently hull interior has been stripped out of unnecessary items,keel support floor web(laminated white oak) installed and drilled to accept 12 pairs of keel bolts, hull is inverted and in the process of installing the keel shell and filling it with 4000lb of resin encapsulated automotive wheel weights. Power will be a 30hp. yanmar diesel driving a 3 blade prop. Deck stepped tabernackle mast,Sloop rigged with jib furling, Tiller steering in the cockpit but with hydrolic, autopilot equipped ,wheel in the wheelhouse. three dogged watertight doors(one wheelhouse entrance)(one wheelhouse to main cabin) (one main cabin to V berth). Nav. gear, magnetic and flux gate compasses, electronic speed log,and reg. charts but backed up with radar, G.P.S. and electronic chart system. Perchased, begged, hoarded, traded for every item before i started the build. Private wharf, floating dock and marine railway 75% completed, launch date summer 2012, 6 months before my 70th. birthday. Finally get to build my own dream boat after years of building and repairing the same for others. Hey better late than never and as promised on a prev. thread i will post photos at each of the majour stages of construction. Beautiful and rewarding work thru the entire thread, George

P.S update feb 12 2011, have decided because this is not a wooden hull to post this build over on Boat Design Forum under Boatbuilding. Tnx. Geo.

[Andy Mcconkey]

I'm building a Joel White Shearwater. I'm almost ready to hang the sheer planks.

[David G]

Just wrapping up the final finish work on a cool little electric canoe. The hull and deck got 2-part polyurethane - forest green for the hull, and a pale sherbert green for the deck. It's fiberglass - an Electra-Ghost, from Annapolis - but I re-did the ash coaming, and added some Ipe rubrails. The ash got stained to more closely resemble the Ipe. I'll be taking final fotos tomorrow, and will post some soon.

[donald branscom]

Professionally, a 79-ft (24m) all-aluminum fireboat for Massachusetts Port Authority.
Personally, restoring a 1969 Bristol 24 sloop made of the other stuff.
Future build - an 8-ft pram for the above. I haven't designed it yet, though.

No photos eh?

[docboat]

Just getting the plans for a George Buehler designed Block Islander 36' - full of good intentions previously, now getting serious

[sambo]

right now !! im working on the interior ,house beams just finished the bowworks,been working on the stearing,rudder, have to glue ,glue ,glue ..restoring ladyada stone built 1901 67ft ...first timer under a huge barn

[sambo]

im rebuilding Lady Ada

[Welding Rod]

I'm building a 43' long 8 1/2' beam 4 1/2' draft plumb bow double ended troller with a cutter rig in a tabernackle. It is pushing the concept of trailerable to the limit. Hull is planked, most of the deck is done. Winter has shut me down till it gets warm enough to epoxy again. Tarped in the side yard till April or so.

[MoMan]

At long last, I can finally include myself on this thread: A 16' prospector cedar strip canoe.

[Duane Brown]

Began lofting a 16' Ducktrap Wherry today. Still sourceing some materials. My first foray into boatbuilding other than S&G or SOF. Can't wait.

[DaveH]

Since April 2009, I have been building Tom Lathrop's Bluejacket 25.5' stitch and glue pilot house power boat. Last week I laminated on Xynole abrasion resistant cloth onto the overturned hull. Gallons of epoxy flew by in this lamination effort and I did an impressive job of gluing my clothes to my elbows and knees...duh.

The build has been much fun and I continue to marvel at Tom's design talents that created a boat stong on function, economy and most importantly, very pleasing to my eyes.

Fortunately, the Austin, Texas mild winters are condusive to working with epoxy.

[Woxbox]

Dave -- Photos of your Bluejacket build would be much appreciated. That's a sweet design.

[ejds]

Dave -- Photos of your Bluejacket build would be much appreciated. That's a sweet design.

+1
I just got the 25.5 plans, but I need to build a suitable workshop first before I can start.
Egbert

[Lewisboater]

Dave -- Photos of your Bluejacket build would be much appreciated. That's a sweet design.

+1!!!

[whb]

A kitchen a bar 2 1/2 bathrooms. Then a second story. Boats are a wet dream at the moment.

Howard

[switters]

flipping it tonight, interior will be beige.

[jimkeen]

Dave -- Photos of your Bluejacket build would be much appreciated. That's a sweet design.

+ 2

I have the Bluejacket 271 plans. Now I am back to work I will be starting construction this spring.

[MiddleAgesMan]

Done with the building--finally! Now I'm tweaking the old Johnson for best performance: