Making a hull

hoytedow · Feb 26, 2012

The boat rides in the truck bed and must not contact the camping trailer with the slightly over 1 meter tongue. Bed of truck is less than 2 meters.

hoytedow · Feb 26, 2012

Wife rides in front to keep bow down.

hoytedow · Feb 26, 2012

I have 2 columns in the back yard that will serve to brace the rotisserie for wrapping the mold frame.

You are a genius!

Fanie · Feb 26, 2012

Wife rides in front to keep bow down.
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LOL. Is she aware of this development, or is your idea for now

If the camping stuff rides in the trailer, how about camping on/in the boat ?
Just make the boat sizable so you can fit the required stuff in it...

You can pack all the stuff at home, no tents etc. You launch and only come back when you leave.

hoytedow · Feb 26, 2012

We can camp in the trailer. We can also set up a dome tent on the boat and sleep there. It will have joining removable decks that serve as the tent floor.

Doug Lord · Feb 26, 2012

Fanie said: ↑

Getting the form for a hull is always the most difficult part. As many home build okes discover, the easy part is drawing it on the computer using a design program, which is fine, you have to do that.

The next challange is getting the sctual shape so you can glass the thing to become a boat. There are many things involved, the amount of glass and resin, bulkheads and all the nice things.

I'm just going to show how easy it is to make a shape for a boat that you can glass over, this is just one of probably many methods you can use. You can after this fair it, or even make a mold for more of the same.

I use a round tube of pipe, the bigger and heavier the hull, the bigger the pipe diameter has to be. You don't want the pipe to bend or it will come out as a banana boat.

Metal tubing has a way of bending very nice if it is bent to a form. You can also change the bending more or less, so if you want an even curve it can be achieved and manipulated very easily.

The principle of getting the shape is spacing pieces of tubing around the pipe to make a form if you would wrap it. The pictures will indicate what I have made before and it worked quite well.
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Pretty neat idea, Fanie. I'm impressed.....

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Making a hull

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