Hi: I'm in the midst of constructing a 28 foot epoxy wood trawler in Metro West Boston. The hull is turned, much of the interior work is...
I'm decking over my 19' sportboat with a 1/4" plywood layer and then another laminated layer of 1/4" meranti strips. With first ply subdeck down...
I came upon a minor hardwood windfall last evening. A friend of a friend who is moving gave me over 250 board feet of locally grown ( new england)...
K-19 construction photos -- Bulkheads Several more photos of progress on my K-19 sailboat project. I did not like at all the striaght edgeds...
Hi: I'm working out the rigging details of my K-19 sport boat and am looking at alternatives to a conventional aluminum extruded mast. The...
The fact is until the advent of steam and the industrial revolution sailing vessels were some of the most complicated machines ever built. A...
Look at Dudley Dix's radius chine sail boat designs. They are a combination of plywood on frame and cold molding. There is virtually no mold that...
K-19 Turned Pictures Well, these are pretty horrible quality pictures but at least you get an idea of what 'kind of trouble' of gotten myself...
I'm doing a 19' strip planked sailboat right now. ( and prior to that a 12' =cedar strip dinghy) it will be finished clear with spar varnish over...
Hi All. I'm a cedar strip builder who has always used West Marine 105 epoxy. As my projects get larger and I start buying in the 'C' size I've...
K-19 Hardware Components Pricing list Hi: I've gone through the Ronstan speced deck hardware, running and standing rigging and have compiled...
In addition to stringers that you might want to add you can also make epoxy fillets around the existing ones. If applied over dry, clean wood...
To scarf or not to scarf. I'm getting ready to layout and cut out my perm bulkheads for the K-19. There are 5 stations. It looks like it would be...
My k-19 project is comming along nicely and now I have to start think about getting the standing/running rigging, sails, spars and deck hardware....
Economic reality versus boatbuilding dreams I'm on my third homebuilt boat, the largest of the three (19', 12' and 14'). By profession I am a...
Will have pix of the varnished hull and the turning shortly. I strongly suggest you leave a most of the mold stations in place or brace...
Turned K-19 this weekend I finally got my hull turned this weekend! It went fairly smoothly. The hull broke cleanly away from the forms with...
Very Interesting form factor too! -- AT least for my purposes... The price is right too. At 8.90 Sterling with a 1.81 exchange rate it works out...
Hello: I've been think alot about electircal battery storage, modern 'canoe shaped hulls', deep keels with bulbs and have to ask a question...
Still not turned... I still ahven't gotten the hull turned. Am shooting for this weekend but bad/cold weather may again prevent it. I ahve photos...