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9th September 2010, 01:32 PM #1Lancaster, PA boat builder
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PDRacers and other boats in Pennsylvania
I have never posted on this forum but occasionally read a few posts in the past. I coached my three kids ages 10, 12, and 14 (back in 2007) as they built three boats. We followed Michael's plans to the letter and got great results. We built them in Senegal, W. Africa. Since then we have moved to Pennsylvania and sail on the Susquehanna River.
These boats always make a stir at the launch site. People don't believe they will sail. Earlier this summer we had all three out racing each other!
I can't seem to figure out how to upload individual pictures to this box, so here is a link to a site I put together to show off the boats I have built so far.
lancasterboatbuilder.weebly.com
It shows my Marisol Skiff and a Michalak kayak as well as the PDRacers.
Best,
Jonathan
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9th September 2010, 05:34 PM #2
Hi Jonathan,
Very nice to run into you again!
These boats always make a stir at the launch site. People don't believe they will sail. Earlier this summer we had all three out racing each other!
Photo is from when Jonathan and family were back in Africa.
PDRacers in Africa - the Bornman family builds three boats - a set on Flickr
From your site it looks like you are doing some boatbuilding on demand. Is this a career shift for you?
MIK
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9th September 2010, 07:01 PM #3
Before I moved to sunny Florida, one of my favorite sailing areas was the Susquehanna, where it dumps into the bay and getting chased out of the proving grounds by the USCG. You must have that nice comfortable water above the dam . . .
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9th September 2010, 10:52 PM #4Lancaster, PA boat builder
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career, not yet
For now this is not really a career change but more like simply a step in that direction. I would love to build more boats and can't afford to keep on making more boats for myself. Nor do I have room to store them. If I can build a boat for someone else I get the joy of building and they get a nice boat. Perhaps this will be a help for someone who wants to sail but is not ready to build.
Jonathan
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9th September 2010, 11:57 PM #5
I've always like the Marisol - a nice example of a pretty clinker hull.
MIK
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11th September 2010, 11:06 PM #6Lancaster, PA boat builder
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Sailing the Susquehanna River
We do have nice water above the Safe Harbor hydro-electric dam. The sailing is great with either a northerly or southerly wind. If the wind is out of the east or west the high hills block most of it. Lake Clark (also known locally as Long Level) is popular with power boats on the weekends in the summer. Generally we go out on week night evenings. Now that Labor day is come and gone, I think most of the power boaters will put their boats away.
Labor day week end we took out our Jim Michalak designed kayak along with friends and a borrowed canoe to the islands in Lake Clark. Shallow water keeps out the power boats, it was peaceful and beautiful.
The best is yet to come!
Jonathan
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19th September 2010, 05:00 AM #7Lancaster, PA boat builder
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Payson Pirogue (Bolger)
I have just started on another small boat to and to the Pennsylvania collection. It is a Payson Pirogue, designed by Philp Bolger. I am building it from the miniature plans published in Payson's Instant Boats.
I will post pictures when I get some and learn how to post them.
I have marked out and cut all the plywood parts.
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27th September 2010, 11:30 AM #8Lancaster, PA boat builder
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Payson Pirogue pictures
I have just started building the Payson Pirogue, designed by Philip Bolger. I am using scrap plywood from my stash. It includes part of a packing crate (4mm luan) used for the bildge panels, door skins salvaged from a door I took off a trash pile (used for the side panels" and a piece of 3/8" plywood that I used for the bottom panel. I have used PL Premium for gluing the butt blocks and for attaching the sides to the stem and stern posts. I am debating about epoxy or polyester resin. I have never tried polyester and since this is a cheap boat I might try it.
I am building from the miniature plan published in Instant Boatbuilding with Dynamite Payson. I have found a few errors (or I simply can't read things that small). Dimensions are missing from the aft mold layout and I had two sets of layout marks not on a fair curve of my batten when I was laying out the bottom panel.
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17th October 2010, 11:13 PM #9Lancaster, PA boat builder
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Picture update on the Payson Pirogue build in Pennsyvania.
Besides using all recycled materials I also decided to test out polyester resin instead of epoxy. I won't do it again, too thick and not nearly as workable as epoxy. Thus the ugly fillets. JonathanLast edited by DesertSailor; 17th October 2010 at 11:17 PM. Reason: picture did not load first time
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2nd December 2010, 01:59 AM #10Lancaster, PA boat builder
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Payson Pirogue DONE!
I choose a paint scheme more daring than most of my previous boats. I masked everything to paint the black on the gunwales and thwarts. My son came in the next morning and said, "I like the colors." Other family members concur. Let me know what you think. -Jonathan
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