dngoodchild reprints?

[Reed]

Hi -
I've been researching building the dollyvarden and have found a web site that says they have reprints of the plans/instructions - http://www.dngoodchild.com/title_list_for_small_craft.htm

I'm interested in building the dolly varden -- but what I'm wondering is if this dngoodchild web site is basically charging $5 for what's free at:
http://www.svensons.com/boat/

has anyone bought reprints from dngoodchild? are they just reprints from Science and Mechanics or are they the "craft print" mentioned at the end of the Science and Mechanics magazine stories.

Thanks for any insight on this!
Reed

[LP]

I've purchased a couple of sets of plans from dngoodchild. "Southwind" was one of them. It looks like they have separated the "text" portion from the "drawings" portion and bound the text in booklet form, stapled at the spline. The drawings are compiled into unform size and everything is published on heavy 8 1/2" x 11" manilla stock. Otherwise, from what I could tell, dgn's source is the articles from S and M and not the "craft print". It appears that the digitized images from the originals, at Svenson's, are slightly better than the "reformatted/enhanced" images at dng. In there support though, they are very interested in selling a quality product were very proactive in making sure I was satified with the product.

The dng Dolly Varden plans will have no more imformation than you current resource, based on the comparison of the Southwind drawings (sailboats). However, the dng package is a nice compact compilation of the drawing set. Every plan set I purchased came in the same sized format. Nice for storage.

[Reed]

thanks for the straight dope -
Reed

[LP]

I just looked over the plans for Dolly Varden. Weston Farmer has done a lot of designing. It's looks like a great project. I don't know if you're looking to use modern techniques, but I just ran some numbers for the design. If you want to use epoxy strip construction with a glass sheath, you could drop the strip thickness to 3/8", increase the frame spacing to 24" and sheath it all in 6 oz./sq.yd. glass cloth. The frames would be 3/4" x 3/4". I would also run 3/4" x 3/4" "floors" every 6" for about 2/3's beam. I didn't look too much deeper, but I think you could encapsulate everything else with epoxy as you built it and you would have a very nice, long lasting boat.

Good luck!

[Reed]

Thanks LP -
would your modification require glassing the inside or just the outside?

[LP]

I would glass both inside and out. Especially since it is an open boat. I might consider a lighter cloth on the inside. The 6 oz. would be good too though. If you do a good job laying it, it will leave a nice anti-skid texture if you don't fill the weave. My concern would be adding so much weight in glass and cloth, but I thick you would be safe since you would removing 2/3 to 3/4 of the frames. Would you bright finish the hull or are you looking at a painted finish. I was building a stripped deck once that started to split on me. (August in Kansas, hot and almost no humidity) I'd layed glass in areas of the deck and experienced no problem with splits there. Long story short, I covered everything in 3.25 oz. glass cloth and have had no problem since. The cloth insures adequate epoxy thickness the stop moisture migration and it distributes any stesses that would occur acrossed the surface of the wood.

Also, I wouldn't worry about the bead and cove on the strips. Rectangular is fine, but combined with thickened epoxy when glueing and nailing the strips.

I could see a painted interior with bright finished seating. A series of bright finished floorboards along the bottom inside would look good too. I finished everthing bright on my first boat, except for accents and the bottom.