Thread: What designs are people building at the moment?

The Yellowtail Yawl

(hey, he said brag, so I am).
You've seen the thread but ... it's David Payne's Yellowtail skiff, with the coachhouse, and a Mik Storer designed lug yawl rig.

Richard

didn't see you admitting to anything Monsieur Bloggs. Come on. Fess up.

Hi Richard,

I'm in to a few different things at the moment. 2nd CY hull will be off the jig this week for fitout but the fitout has to wait a few weeks whilst I do a 10' Gartside traditional clinker for another client. Have a Farrier tri awaiting repairs, a 1/2 finished Payne 3m ( which will be finished whilst I do the final finishing on the CY's) and once the bloody weather warms up ( my hotbox aint big enough to hold enough epoxy), I have a 43' grainger cat to continue with. I'd also like to do something extra for the 2007 wooden boat festival but I'll see how I go for time. Not enough hours in the day. Love to do Gartsides design #146 ( see http://www.gartsideboats.com/swansong.php ). One day..........

regards,

AD

Depends what you mean by "building",

Boat racks for the boat shed.
Goat Island Skiff needs varnish badly. Actually it badly needs varnish!
Eureka Canoe is down to the last coat of poxy then varnish.
Two Puddleducks need paint, one needs a new mast.
The material for the rowboat sits mournfully in the shed.
The Wee Lassie moulds are in the roof waiting to come down.
The pond sailer needs a mast and sail (and varnish)
Two paddles are glued blanks waiting to be shaped.
Two oars are usable (have been for ten years) but really I should sand and seal them shouldn't I?

I can truthfully say I am working on 65 feet of boat at the moment, and you wonder why I get grumpy?

That's all I'm "building" at the moment, but I've got a bigger thing 'building' in my mind.

The only boat I have that doesn't need work at the moment is the two footer!:eek:

Cheers,

P

Building? Pah. You'll have noticed in my earlier post that I didn't mention today's efforts. Having used my absolutely wonderful clamps (see yet another thread somewhere on here) to glue rubbing strips along the bottom of the sheer plank, I've spent the last couple of centuries ... er ... afternoons, cleaning them up and sanding. On one side, I was just doing the final sand, you know, the one where you're just knocking off the sharp edges you missed earlier, the one that's designed to make you feel like you're doing a good job rather than actually achieving anything. Well, the rounded off edges looked a tad sharp. I'd originally shaped them with my brand new Ryobi Laminate Trimmer (yes, I know, I'm poverty striken but with the passing of my half century, I lashed out and bought some tools I've been itching for for the last two years or more - this was one of them). Anyways, I decided to run over the edges of these rubbing strips just once more with the trimmer/router. HAH! I finished, took stuff all timber off, then noticed that, for the first time, the bolt that holds the spindle of the router blade, had been rubbing against the sheer strake, and seeing it was also rotating, it's left a bloody big burn mark all the way along my sheer strake More sanding to remove that because the whole idea was to finish the rubbing strip, sheer strake and gunwale bright.

Poo. Paint is much more betterer - it hides things like this, but you'll be proud to know that I am carefully sanding out my latest stuff up and still plan to go with all the varnish. I'd include photos but I'm still a tad annoyed with myself.

I'm making the rubbing strips and the gunwales out of kapur. In the past, I've noticed that this turns a beautiful red when coated with poxy whereas the hoop pine planking remains pale. With a bit of luck, it'll look really good. If not, there's always paint.

Richard

Oh, Mik, the bottom mast step is now glued in place and the top step is made and will be glued in place as soon as I've finished fussing with the rubbing strips and then poxy coated the front floatation chamber.

Boat building.

3 hours procrastination
1 hour frantic activity
6 hours fixing up the mistakes

Richard

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Originally Posted by Daddles

Boat building.

3 hours procrastination
1 hour frantic activity
6 hours fixing up the mistakes

Richard

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I'll second that.

Also this week is the making of the new and improved Acme steam boiler. Construction is out of a round thing that beer used to be in ( can't say k#g or the owner might get upset). Saw a good idea on the net that incorporated a whistle (that reminded the busy boatbuilder not to burn the #### out of another boiler) so am giving that a go.

regards,

AD

12 hours procrastination
0 hour frantic activity
0 hours fixing up the mistakes


P

12 hours procrastination
0 hour frantic activity
0 hours fixing up the mistakes

That could also be see as a cruel dig at someone....

Originally Posted by Clinton1

That could also be see as a cruel dig at someone....

Now that wouldnt be me your referrin to young Clinton would it? Nah of course not!!

So what am I building?... okay for starters and remember this is just a for starters here

1) I have done the lofting and made and laid the keel of Atkins Valgerda and 18ft Norse Hardringskyte or however the blazes they say it... that along with the tiller and the mast are presently up in the loft of my shed

2) I have made the keel transom and bum of a Stevensons Weekender along with its wheel (not once not twice but thrice Ive made the sodding wheel! :mad: )

3) Ive made the moulds for both Mac McCarthys Wee Lassie and Wee Lassie 2 canoes... to this end Ive also made the building stands for both... both sets of moulds I find after some 3 years need replacing

4) I am also waiting patiently for me ol matey Tony Hunt in Sydney to send along my re-draw of the old Pearl Luggar Trixen (down from 50ft to 26) which I hope to actually get to a stage of building

5) I am aslo considering the plans of Cinema and Snapper boats from David Payne along with 2 others from overseas... small short term (ie 1 year) builds

6) I am presently looking (read convincing her bloody highness) that perhaps it would be easier less painful in the long run if I simply buy a lovely woodenboat from a good friend

Aside from all that! Im making furniture and what I loosely term "wood art" setting up a business choosing a new home design selecting another shed ordering a new cover for the humpyhoochy heading 3000klicks into the desert to work at lunch time tomorrow... AND when I have time enjoying my 8 kids their partners and our grandchild... whew! its a bloody wonder Ive got time to phart let alone build anything

See I knew it wasnt me you were hinting at

What am I building?

I am still planning a Tamar dinghy, still at the stage of collecting information, asking Boatmik dumb questions, reading books and making decisions (alright, generally procrastinating).

In the meantime, I am working on little woodwork projects (boxes, toys, chests, etc) to improve my woodworking skills so that the little boat isn't entirely a learning experience (ie a collection of stuff ups). Also dealing with a leaking sewer line somewhere up the hill that seems to want to appear in my garage/workshop whenever I start working.

Cheers

Jeremy

Originally Posted by Wild Dingo

1) I have done the lofting and made and laid the keel
2) I have made the keel transom and bum of a Stevensons Weekender
3) Ive made the moulds for both
4) I am also waiting patiently
5) I am aslo considering
6) I am presently looking

Ding,

Would it be fair to say that your actual hobby is making pieces for boats, aparat from waiting, considering and looking which of coures we all know is the fundamental bit?


P

Midge... mate one goes through so many levels... looking stary eyed at the whoppin great dream boats is probably the first then realization starts to slowly sink in and you start downsizing that dream boat a bit then a bit more... and all the time time and tide wait for no one and suddenly you wake up one morning sans boat... but you KNOW there must be ONE bloody boat that you can knock up in a weekend just to get out there... so you find and build a 6hr canoe which by the way takes no less than 16hrs and probably a few more going on my example...

and suddnely your out there!!!

but... and heres the sad part... as much as you and your mob enjoy that first foray into building boats just just plain doesnt do it for you... boreing... well actually given its a simple ply and paint canoe it is rather boreing

So you start looking all over again... then it occurs to you as time and tide begin to roll by once more... it occurs that you may well have seen one that could be rather fun to build and muck about in... so you go find it amidst the scans you have left and you start building again! Great fun... but then you think mmm maybe this isnt the one? so your looking again... meanwhile you still muck about every now and then with the first one... suddenly you think "Eureka" nah not the canoe but the weekender so you start contacting getting the plans replaced (Thank you Mike Stevenson! ) and you start building that one... yaaahoo right?

Nope... suddenly you notice those two sets of moulds sitting there all dusty and a tad worse for the wear from floods and moves and such and you think... mmm maybe?... and so you start sorting them again

And meanwhile... time and tide wait for no man... and youve started your boatlust wandering again only now finally you have defined what it is you actually want the boat for where your going to use her and the nature of the boat you need... so your choices are defined the design selection is limited to those criteria and suddenly there are but 4 choices!!! AMFLAMINAZIN!!!

So thats where Im at me ol matey... as for the friends boat well thats another little additive in the mix! not really what I want but soooooo bloody cute!! and Im about due for a road trip over east and what better reasoning than to buy a boat?... cause I will need time of from work (doubtful) will need to convince her bloody highness of the rightness of the decision (ahem color me curious at my abilities to achieve that one) and then of course theres the time needed to make the decision and actually decide do I sail a 20ft boat around the bight or do I go northward (entailing taking several months of work in the process) aaahhh tis hard indeed

Mind here... at present her bloody highness has started making noises about wanting a trailerable houseboat... plans of which she knows I have copies of very old ones... and a simpler disign I doubt there could be... so thats her ideas just know... houseboat on a trailer means we can buggar of do some fishin and such and not be restricted to the common camping grounds or stay there as the mood may hit her and have all the comforts either way... sigh

But each one of those bits of boats out there gets a small serving whenever I attack one I attack the others... a little bit here a little bit there and suddenly one day there will be a major birthing at Dingo Creek!!!:eek:

Dingo

I don't really like to suggest things out of the blue like this - but a HOUSEBOAT it is just to horrible to comtemplate. EEEEK

Maybe you need to build a houseboat that can GO.

That way you can use it for a platform to ogle other boats from which seems to match your psyche quite nicely.

Tennessee - or one of the early Duck variants of the same with the full headroom for loo and galley and pemanent canopy over the cockpit with roll down weatherproof sidecurtains - get Bolger's book if you haven't already (plan is inside and it is a good read) - look at some pics on the Duck website and work it out for yourself.

I do have a set of Bolger's Tennessee plans here from back when I was trying to be a mini Duck Flat in Sydney a decade ago. Never used - a customer return - would be nice to sell them - but the book is cheaper (I don't sell that).

Don't get too smart - keep it simple or like a houseboat you will be building forever. Keep it simple and it will go together surprisingly quickly.

10 knots on 10hp - 8 knots cruising and the 4 stroke is dead quiet shrouded under the aft deck. Can do 30 miles in a 4 hour stretch with your missus reading a book in the back.

Flat floor so the walking area goes out to the hull sides and easy building

Light enough to trail long distances - at least if you keep more toward Bolger's conception.

A houseboat has the downsides and not the advantages of both a house and a boat - and they are so much building. Lots of them require a big donk (fuel) to go nowhere fast.

But the good thing is if you can sell her the idea of a boat with accomodation to fulfil her wish for a houseboat - then it doesn't cut into YOUR plan and building budget.

MIK

No hijack intended.

Go back to what you were doing

MIK