The fiberglass factory I used to work for is only ten miles up the road, so can get all the materials i'll need, might even get it at cost price!
Cheers Michael, good point, some sort of mockup could save a lot of wasted plywood, and i'll have a nice model to display in the livingroom! if...
cheers ancient kayaker, i'd love to build my own boat from my own design, but you have to be realistic when your safety is at stake, i think using...
Well I downloaded a free copy of Delftship this morning and had a play around designing my own boat. The hull looked pretty much identical to a...
this style of boat building is more my thing. seeing as the debate on cardboard models is still out, and i'm useless on computer programs, then...
Cheers for the offer Frosty, but i'm not in the market for a sail boat, I'm sure someone out there will gladly take it!
Hi Frosty, from what i've seen boats are much cheaper that side of the pond. To give you some idea of second hand boat prices over here. 8ft...
cheers hambamble, i'm thinking of taking the existing tolman skiff plans and slightly modifying the bow to reduce the deadrise so it doesn't look...
at the end of the day this boat will be nothing more than a floating work platform, there are no two boats in the local harbour similar in size or...
good point Frosty, scaling from a model would be inacurate for building the whole boat, but i'd only be using the model to get the hull right,...
good advice guys, over on my other thread 'building a crab boat', I asked about modifying existing plans to make a more salty looking boat. What...
cheers guys, would it be possible to modify a tolman skiff or Roth Bilt 18 to give it a blunt bow, and less taper on the sides and transom before...
hey all, has anyone built a cardboard model that they were able to scale up into a full size plywood boat? i am thinking of building a small 18...
cheers for getting back to me guys! I'd like to build my own boat as i love a project and building your own allows you to customise it to your own...
Hey all, i've been looking into building my own boat for a while now. Originally I wanted to build a fiberglass on ply cabin cruiser/fast fisher...
Hey Nick, yes building a new boat from plans is pretty much what i'm doing, though instead of buying paper plans and templates, I bought wooden...
Hey Nick, you right about buying a ready built boat, but i've always wanted to build my own, i have the time, space and tools, and spread out over...
hey everyone i'm having trouble finding a supplier of resorcinol in the UK, does anyone know where i can get it, or a good alternative?
here are a few pics of the old keel and one of the timbers that run either side of it. there was very little in the way of frames or anything...
hey PAR here are a few pics of the boat before and during stripping. [IMG][/IMG] in this pic showing the basic backbone of the boat, the two...
