Haiti does have a tradition of sailing and boatbuilding but I question the availability of suitable lumber as time goes on. From a picture on the...
I see an organization that has given Hatian fishermen outboard skiffs to replace their wooden boats and this video of another building skiffs for...
You said adjust ballast with water in your barrels. You do not want water sloshing around, what is called the free surface effect. It will make...
A standard solution to this problem on sit on top outrigger canoes is just a rubber stopper on deck with a length of tubing protruding through it;...
Having seen attempts to sail a pram with a leeboard and cat lug rig we concluded prams make awful sail boats. Might just as well try to sail a...
Rockport Steel shows a mooring barge on their webpage. You could ask them what they charge. Boats by Rockport Steel...
Your design so far is lacking a keel, skeg or centerboard. A hull form with so little lateral resistance will not sail to windward very well.
Safehaven also builds a 38ft sportfisherman using the same hull as their pilotboat. That is a boat I would love to have.
[MEDIA] Around 2:50 in the video is the typical way of boarding with a Rope ladder some call a Jacobs ladder. With their reinforced hull seems...
Forum member Tom Kane invented a lifting prop if you search for his posts. Pivotal Drive | Boat Design Net...
Aviateur is one example of what a real boat with the features you describe with chined plywood hull, lifting keel and beamy slice of pie shape...
Story does not make much sense, some sit on tops have plugs for the cockpit drain, to empty out a filled cockpit, but even when left open would...
Down below they are, but hopefully you have the right conditions to make use of the big deck space.
This makes the Wharram cats and what he calls appropriate technology all the more appealing. Everything old is new again, I see even hardware...
Another designer that might catch your fancy. Self Build Boats | James Wharram Designs https://www.wharram.com/site/self-build-boats#tiki
Seems the Scandinavian way of lap strake construction is plank first, then the frames are jogged and beveled to fit the hull ....
Two blog entries previous to the one you linked on this forum you titled it wasting your time looking at boats on the internet, since you had no...
If this is a school project I hope your instructor is not trying to drown you. At best you could make a swimming aid that you lay your upper body...
As a simple thought experiment, imagine giving a model boat of yours in free wheeling mode a hard shove, your boat will churn and throw water and...
Video shows what happens when you don't get a running start. Like driving on soft surfaces with no traction you dig a hole and sink. [MEDIA]
