riva series

[thymen]

hello ik Thymen and im new at this forum
i have a dream....
i want to build a whole serie of riva boats i have some drawings but not in autocad with sizes if sombody have some autocad files everything is good from aquarama to aquariva enzz
greets Thymen
(from holland)

[kerosene]

as in full size real boats?

2 issues

1. The crappy riva plans you can find on CDs or other digital formats are not that accurate - maybe fine for scale models. The sellers do not have rights to reproduce or sell those plans either.

2. You cannot commercially (as in make a series) just take somebody else's design and start manufacturing them. It is considered stealing.

[Easy Rider]

Does Riva make FG boats? The older Riva boats were built from wood that came from Riva owned forests, sawn in a Riva mill and dried for a long time before being cut to become a part of a Riva boat. I could be wrong about all of this but thats what I remember. Can anyone confirm this? If so it would seem to me it would take a long time to build a Riva boat. And if they make FG boats the materials must be as exotic as the wood. That makes me wonder what they may be ..if they make plastic boats. Plastic Riva boats .. thats hard to imagine.

Easy Rider

[kerosene]

plenty of plastic rivas around - they make quite big boats too these days

http://img.nauticexpo.com/images_ne/...cht-128358.jpg

anyway composite rivas have been around already for a while.

[thymen]

i have some plans i thing about thirty plans but they are not the perfect plans to work with i want to make a serie from the riva boats in model size 1/10 with working engine those plans of a cd/acad thats just a sort off scam
i`m looking for plans with the good ribb construction
greets Thymen

[rambat]

Here is a surprising detailed CAD resource for such boats:
http://classicwoodenboatplans.com/ri...1970_model.htm

[Tad]

Originally Posted by rambat

Here is a surprising detailed CAD resource for such boats:
http://classicwoodenboatplans.com/ri...1970_model.htm

Once again......absolute crap......please read this thread.......

My Riva Aquarama Plans