Pretty in Plywood

[Paul Pless]

Request:

Please submit photos or plans of pretty plywood boats. Any type of construction, batten, sheet, lap-ply, stitch and glue. Any size. Any type. The only restriction is that it be pretty, and plywood of course.

Show me what you got,
Paul

[imported_Steven Bauer]

Well, I can't resist that one:



Iain Oughtred's Eun Na Mara

Steven

[ 01-26-2004, 11:00 PM: Message edited by: Steven Bauer ]

[Steve Miller]

I think this one is pretty. I built her so I am just slightly prejudiced about it. Fred Shell designed Swifty 12 with a few custom touches. Everybody loves their first boat.



[ 01-27-2004, 01:10 AM: Message edited by: Steve Miller ]

[Bob Ketterling]

Hey guys, great boats! Who about if you add the name of the design?

[J. Dillon]

Paul, you opened up a Pandora's box. It would be easier to go to WB home page and click on to "My Wooden Boat".



"Carrianne"

by JD

[Captain Pre-Capsize]

Stop, STOP, STOP!!!

Please fellows, names of the designers. A bit of editing would do it. Thanks so much. Now to empty my drool cup...

[JimConlin]

Ken Bassett's 'Liz'


Sorry for the big image.

[Steve Miller]

Ok, its edited.

[Venchka]

Designer: Iain Oughtred
Design: Caledonia yawl boat, WB Plan No. 103
Builder: John S. Anderson, St. Andrews, N.B., Canada
Name: Elisabeth Grace
Homeport: Belle Chasse, LA

Shelmarine Khaya plywood, mahogany, northern white cedar, spruce & black locust.



More about the Caledonia yawl:

Elisabeth Grace 1

Elisabeth Grace 2

Caledonia yawl CRAZYBIRD & others

[ 12-16-2005, 09:25 AM: Message edited by: Venchka ]

[Keith Wilson]

Well, ply lapstrake boats are almost cheating. It's WAY too easy to find pretty ones. Anything by Iain Oughtred qualifies, certainly.

Here are a couple of sheet plywood boats. The links are to the web pages of the folks selling the plans.

First, Phil Bolger's Gypsy : Taped-seam "instant boat" construction. I built one of these years ago (the picture's not of mine - I don't like the color, but it was the best I could find) and she's even more graceful on the water than the pictures show.



Another Phil Bolger design, the Gloucester Light Dory, AKA Gloucester Gull


Yet another thing of beauty by M. Bolger (he definitely doesn't design only square boats), the Chebacco. There are several versions, sheet ply and lapstrake ply,(also one with a hideous raised cabin).



And no list of lovely plywood boats would be complete without Steve Redmond's Whisp :



And lastly, the Duck Trap Wherries - They're built in both glued ply and traditional lapstrake:





[ 01-27-2004, 10:22 AM: Message edited by: Keith Wilson ]

[gert]

Carina

Designer: Joel White's Shearwater

[ 01-27-2004, 10:23 AM: Message edited by: gert ]

[Billy Bones]

Here's mine...



Joel White's pooduck skiff. A complete log of her construction can be found in Building/Repair. Elsewhere under my name you will find an explanation of why the rudder is up in this otherwise pretty good picture.



[ 01-27-2004, 12:30 PM: Message edited by: Billy Bones ]

[Figment]

DAMMIT, Jim!!!!

EVERY SINGLE TIME you post that pic of "Liz" I start drooling all over again!!

[Paul Pless]

Damn,

Absolutely Beautiful Boats and Pictures. I pity those among us with slow internet access.

Thanks, and keep them coming,

Paul

[Donn]

80' Elco:

[Venchka]

For every one shown here there are a hundred more just as nice.

[Dave Williams]

So far, if we're talking pretty. J.Dillon wins, no contest. Although I really do like that Duck Trap Wherry and Eun Na Mara, and the Chebaca, and, and, and. Tough call! They're all pretty!

[Paul Pless]

They are indeed outstanding examples of plywood boats. No examples of too much varnish (especially Donn's post). They are all very well finished boats showing very good tastes. I would not even attempt to pick a winner.

Thanks again guys, one can never have to much porn to look at.

Paul

[imported_Steven Bauer]

Eun Na Mara again:



Steven

[Venchka]

Show off!

[Captain Pre-Capsize]

"Thou shalt not covet, but for thine neighbor's wooden vessel thee may..."

Exodus 20:17

What a relief to have my very own version of God's word that is sooo in tune with me. No guilt any more.

[Paul Pless]

Venchka,

I'm not sure that's in the unwritten rules to edit a post to change the photo. As a matter a fact I'm quite sure you should've somply added an additional post.

Man the details of that boat are fantastic. Is it yours?

Paul

[J. Dillon]

Great shot of the Eun Na Mara except for the bridge.

I'd like to try to clone out the bridge in the Image by putting it into Adobe Photo work shop.

Any body know how to make the transfer ?

JD

[Meerkat]

Hey, I think I know that Chebacco! If i'm not mistaken, that's my acquaintence Jamie Orr sailing his Chebacco off of Vitoria, BC, Canada!

[Donn]

JD...ask Steven to email you the original pic. Open it in Photoshop, and simply replace the bridge with sky.

[J. Dillon]

Donn,

I know how to do the replacing ( bridge out, sky in) part but I don't know how to get it off the Forum and into the photo shop. Can this be done ?

JD

[imported_Steven Bauer]

Go to www.duckflatwoodenboats.com for the original. My boat is still a stack of plywood that I need to move tonight so I can insulate the wall it's leaning on, and a pile of molds that I need to move so I can insulate there, too. As you can tell I'm insulating the boatshop/garage.
Crappy job, especially with Gavin's Elf project in the way and all my tools and everything spread out all over the place, but once it's done that Jotul Model Three will keep it nice and toasty in there.

Steven

[Donn]

JD...wherever you get it from the web, just right click on it and select "save as" then open Photoshop, and open the saved file in it.

[J. Dillon]

OK , gonna give it a try.

JD

[imported_Steven Bauer]

This one doesn't have a bridge:




Steven

[Philip Maynard]

Melon Seed adapted from Chapelle's American small Craft.

Under construction




Completed


I have cut back the leading edge and reduced the depth of the daggerboard since this shot but have not yet sailed with the new smaller board.

Phil Maynard

[J. Dillon]

Steven,, Just where on that web site it that boat ? Everytime I click to a section my computer crashes.

JD

[Hwyl]

Originally posted by J. Dillon:
Great shot of the Eun Na Mara except for the bridge.



JD

How dare you, that's a beautiful bridge (Firth of Forth I think, great name too)

[Captain Pre-Capsize]

Sigh... I just got done with reviewing the Elisabeth Grace site (above) - I'm speachless. Very impressive.

[imported_Steven Bauer]

Click designer's gallery from the home page, then click the last link under the Iain Oughtred list - 'Cruising Yachts' and Bob's your uncle.

Steven

[WOODZOWL]

Plywood! Mummichog.

[Mark Van]

My home.

[Meerkat]

Wow Mark: is that literally your home?

[Keith Wilson]

Mark's too modest. Ain't it lovely? He designed it, built it, lives on it and sells plans for it. (If I say this it's not self-promotion.) Here's his web site. I really want to build one of those and head down the river - but not this year, alas.

[Venchka]

Ok, you caught me. Guilty as charged! I didn't want to hog the space here so I thought it might be fun to change the picture from time to time.

Yes, Elisabeth Grace is mine. I am indeed fortunate to own her. No, thank goodness I didn't build her. Building honors go to John Anderson of St. Andrews, New Brunswick. John deserves all the credit for reading my mind and devising changes for the interior and an overall excellent job of building a fabulous boat. He exceeded my wildest expectations.

The bad news is that I don't have any pictures yet of Elisabeth Grace on the water under sail. When I do I will share them. In the meantime, here is proof that she floats!

[whb]

Meercat

I think it is Jamie and Wayward Lass. A great guy. Where do you know him from. I articled with him a lifetime ago.

Howard

[videoguy]

My dory PAS de deux [img]smile.gif[/img] [img]smile.gif[/img] ...Phil

[brian.cunningham]

Mine underconstruction


a bigger version of this CLC SailRig

more CLC boats http://www.clcboats.com/



large plywood Wharram catamaran
http://www.wharram.com

Parker Schooner http://www.parker-marine.com


[ 01-28-2004, 07:59 PM: Message edited by: brian.cunningham ]

[Buddy]

Have mercy on the bridge guys, isn't that the famous Firth of Fourth railway bridge? An engineering marvel, iron box beam innovation in its day.

[Railmeat]

How about ANY of Sam Devlin's stitch-and-glue designs? Specifically, Means of Grace (my personal fave)...

Don
Means of Grace

[Paul Pless]

Brian,

I knew you would showup eventually in this thread. That was a great post, shows us a little variety from the many beautiful lap/ply boats. I have always admired the lines of traditional and near traditional sharpies. The kayaks are nice too. How far is you tri from being launched and sailed? It looks wicked fast and wicked wet.

Paul

p.s. I am relieved you did not try to sneak a Bolger Micro in on us.

[Meerkat]

Originally posted by whb:
Meercat

I think it is Jamie and Wayward Lass. A great guy. Where do you know him from. I articled with him a lifetime ago.

Howard

After looking over the Chebacco site, I'm quite sure it's Jamie and his "Waward Lass". I was introduced to him and his father by our mutual friend John Welsford at the Pt. Townsend Wodden Boat Festival year before last. We shared a nice mexican dinner at a local eattery. He and his dad (a pair of Orrs), are quite nice folks. They had sailed "Wayward Lass" over from Victoria for the festival.

[Venchka]

More Oughtred, an Acorn dinghy by Cullison SmallCraft




[ 01-29-2004, 01:48 PM: Message edited by: Venchka ]

[Paul Pless]

Oughtred's boats are beautiful. Other than his design catalog and his manual on clinker ply construction, I have seen very little written by him.

I wish he wrote more, he is truly gifted small boat designer. His boats are inspirational.

Paul

[Venchka]

Write to him and pick his brain on any aspect of any of his boats. He answers promptly and in great detail.