Or Tom Colvin's book on steel boat building. Or Gil Klingel's. Both written for amateurs starting out with nothing more than a flat place to work....
There are (at least) 2 ways of building metal boats. 1. Frames & stringers first followed by hull plating. The variants here are building upside...
A couple different scenarios here. If you picked up my mooring for a lunch stop or overnight stop and I wasn't using it, as long as you didn't...
Long time member, been busy for a while. I bought a set of plans for a stretched Saugeen Witch off of Tom and about 2 years ago launched her....
Hi Penny. I built one of Tom's SAUGEEN WITCH hulls stretched to 38'. Took a while but I wasn't in a hurry. Tom did supply me with the rigging...
I finally finished my stretched Colvin Witch build some months back. Haven't launched yet, that'll probably be in September/October, but the boat...
They're all on Diego Garcia. Everyone (who's a conspiracy nutcase) knows that.... PDW
That's funny - Sydney, Australia is New Zealand's 3rd biggest city by population of Kiwis..... PDW
My cabin sole could handle the load just fine. Now, where to find the blonde..... PDW
Build a dinghy and get it out of your system. If you think you can build a new boat big enough to go cruising with a family of 5 cheaper than...
Time to take a chill pill, Doug, and this advice comes from someone with zero interest in racing at all, even less in totally impractical toys...
Picked up one of these the other day. With manual. No pix to upload as yet, just wondering if anyone out there has one of these and an exploded...
I used Jotun 605 on my steel hull. Time in service is the only way to tell how good it is, but it was straightforward to apply (roller in my case)...
Pretty sure that one was in one of the 'Build A Boat' book plans back in the 70's. I have seen old copies of that publication in secondhand book...
I can answer that one - nobody. Nor would any investor sink money into it. Perhaps this is another boat design best pursued by the origami...
You want to control the humidity, period. A month or so back we had a cold snap where temperatures dropped below 0C every night for 4-5 days and...
OK, so you're not actually going to do the hull build etc yourself, really, more you're going to project-manage it and farm out a lot of the grunt...
I agree that the shed is probably too small, but other than the length of the boat we haven't been given anything to work with. Does the OP...
Sorry to hear that - I quite enjoyed reading about your progress. However, I understand your position. I hope to finish my boat within the next 12...
Ha ha ha ha - I once thought as you do. How hard can it be, I said to myself, as I started on a *much* more modest 12m steel hull... Tell me -...