Thread: S&G, Glued Lap Ply, Lap Stitch???

Okay, speel check screewed me . . . though I sometimes display the aloofness of the former . . .

Thanks for you feedback everyone - that's the great thing about this forum: being able to access the wisdom of very experienced boat builders. Or at least people who have made the mistakes I'm about to make - hopefully before I make them .

Still - even with access to all this experience I don't think it makes the decision of what design/method to use any easier.

Originally Posted by b.o.a.t.

Ascetics ? Or Aesthetics ?

Personally I'd prefer a boat with the latter rather than the former.
But I freely admit to being soft.
cheers
AJ

You can have BOTH, man, you can have BOTH!

If the designer has enough wit to do it.

Originally Posted by Daddles

You can tell he's a disciple of Bolger can't you

Yep. Here is my most famous square boat.



Part of the function is pure Bolger - the other part is the OZ plywood boatbuilding tradition. Looks (er aesthetics) - really just the one curve of the sheerline a 1890's American Sailing Canoe interpreted by Storer.

You can have the nice sheer or you can ignore it completely (Bolger box) and the boat will sail exactly the same. Form and Function are both present in BETH. (Actually EVERYTHING has form - what a silly statement!)

I never claimed I was original!

MIK (the ascetic aesthetic that drinks acetic acid assiduously)

So Par, Nessy or tern? I think I understood what you said, and I
apreciate your comments. Onya. Coogs