Strip Built
Strip building involves bending thin (1/4-inch [6-mm] or less) pieces of wood around temporary forms, edge-gluing them together, and then fiberglassing inside and out. It is a great method for making beautiful, lightweight, small boats. Also called "Cedar Strip", "Wood Strip", "Strip Planked" etc.
Changes and Corrections
Despite my best efforts some errors found their way into the offsetspublished for not just one, but all three boats in the book.
Coot
Form #1 of the Coot has the offsets shifted around a bit. They should be as shown below:
Trimming to a Feature Line
There are often situations where you need to trim a group of strips tofollow a line, such as a chine or keel line.
Introduction
Let's get this clear from the start: it is a waste of time to build your own wooden boat.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The Background
- 1 Introduction
- The Strip-Building Method
- What You Need to Build a Boat
- Three Strip-Building Projects
- 2 Materials
- Wood
- Resin
- Reinforcing
- 1 Introduction
- Part 1 The Background
Form Reference Lines
I like a good set of reference lines on all my forms. These are usually supplied by gluing the paper form patterns to the MDF and leaving them there. The patterns have the reference lines so everything is good.
