Boat Building Techniques
Boat Building Techniques
Articles, blog posts and videos about how to build small boats
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.
A quick strongback
I'm about to start building the first boats in my new shop. I'm going to exhibit at the Maine Boat Builder's Show and I need some boats to bring to it.
Why "Stitch-and-Glue"?
Because stitch-and-glue boat construction uses a relatively small number of wood pieces a boat can be build in relatively short order. Because plywood is inherently quite strong for its weight the resulting boat is quite tough and lightweight with a minimum of additional reinforcement.
