I still have the frames! the wood will no doubt be used for other projects in due course - :o You could call me the constant builder as I always...
Buc24 Hi folks, I still look in on the forum occasionally. I note my name/handle has been mentioned a couple of time in the past couple of...
Hi Bruce, that daggerboard case looks very nicely made! A symetric shape and translucent by the look of it! tell us how you made it and some...
Trailer sailors account for a large population of the boats that we use. Most of us will winter our boats at home for maintenance and/or to save...
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danskram The 3/4" thick X 2' 3/4" width wood framing for the bulkheads of the three hulls is the skeleton of the boat, add the 1/4" ply to the...
OS, there is a small mistake on the plans, other builders of the Buc will probably pic it up, but I will bring it to your attention. Sheet 2,...
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Ive just been looking at one of Bruce's pictures of his B24, no cabin but what a lovely looking boat, it does look purpose-full and ready for the...
Hey guys, my boat will have backstays outboard of the floats as Crowther's design, you are right, I am wrong, to many years of me playing around...
The Buc design is good, brilliant, you would have a hard job to better it in ply, in my opinion, but the rig is old fashioned, a modern fractional...
Bruce, at the end of the day, its one's own experience's of sailing, not what people tell you how sailing is! - there is no problem with pad eye's...
You will have no problems with these fittings failing, being used as a back stay!, they are used universally on transoms for backstays on sailing...
This is the Buc transom edged out, Ive added 12mm thick mahogany backing plates on each corner which will make secure my pad eye plates which in...
Johnny, The Ten Commandments of Marriage Commandment 1 Marriages are made in heaven. But, so are thunder and lighting. Commandment 2 If you...
OS - maybe a copy or three or four or five or more - the full size plans sheet of the frames clearly show the drawings of the frames intersec over...
Rattus, what a great geometry program, Ive downloaded Cinderella 1.4 and it looks to be very helpfull, I will have a little play with it over the...
harryjak, It is important that you use a blunt edge proffesional pattern wheel with carbon paper, if you use a dressmakers pattern wheel you will...
Bruce, keep all those measurments and dimensions, you might even be producing a supplementary plan at this rate.....:D
I second OS - I just cant understand why so many of you guys have purchased plans and are not building. My reasons were quite simple, "I wanted...
