Just ordered plans for the smaller Nutshell Pram...

[coopercdrkey]

I know, Big Whoop!

How many countless others have built this little gem before me ? (I, therefore, shant bore the Forum with a building thread.)

For me, however, this is a gateway experience. I will claim cabinetmaking credentials, based on the many homes on our island that contain examples of my craft. Cabinets, and credenzas, and bookcases, etc., have something in common- they are (for the most part) square. My first wooden boat, an OZ Racer, is (for the most part) square.

My goal is to build the Oughtred Acorn Skiff. To do so with the quality of craftmanship that she deserves, means I need to learn a number of new skills- skills that on a lesser more manageable and, perhaps, more forgiving scale seem to be required to build the Nutshell. I fully realize that fairing the boards into the bow transom is a far cry from fairing the strakes into the bow stem, but one has to start somewhere. I've decided this is my startpoint.

Plus, I'll have a Nutshell Pram !!

[SJKaplan]

go for it and enjoy. I might suggest however that if your goal is an acorn skiff, you might start with Oughtred's humble bee pram. it has a few more strakes to get you into the whole spiling, fairing thing. Saul

[coopercdrkey]

Since I will be building from plan, (not kit), and since I do not have a tilt-table band saw, and since I just got an oscillating spindle sander for my birthday, I think I might have a way to bevel the bow transom quite accurately.

I'll let you know if it works out....

Coop

[switters]

we shant be bored, as long as there are pictures to go along with the build.

have fun!