I have an O'Day Javelin, 14 ft daysailer, hull is made of fiberglass, and the fiberglass deck piece joins the hull at the sheer line. These two...
I would like to purchase a hull appropriate for my next project, since I have finally now been given a "round tuit". Having no experience with...
I would like some help with conventional wisdom here, with respect to reasonable assumptions for composite sheet material in typical hull...
Back around the turn of the last century, the steamer "Turbina" with new steam turbines turned heads in England at 34 knots, leading to the...
I see some variations, especially in older publications as to the words used to describe a boat/ship trip. A couple of hundred years ago,...
Oil into lakes and rivers is an event we all need to be mindful of. Bilge water will often have some oil, and the Oil-Sorb Pads are effective...
Many simple hulls are built with fully rounded hull shapes, or with an approximation of the original shape, built with plywood or other sheet...
A while ago I was asking about pushing a converted O'Day JAVELIN hull relatively fast, on the forum thread "Powered O'Day Javelin". The JAVELIN...
I am having some trouble with varnish over epoxy. All my decks have a coating of epoxy over plywood. The epoxy looks good, but I wanted to provide...
I have a 14 ft Javelin planing sailboat hull that I converted to an electric cruiser (3/4 HP) years ago. Now I want to put a flash steam plant...
Building a simple plywood hull, one site indicates external chine logs make for better hull performance than ordinary interior chine logs. This...
I have a 14 ft Javelin Sailboat Hull, that I converted to inboard electric drive about 5 years ago. This build is detailed at...
Has anyone actually had experience with this? I was told it will make the bottom of my new plywood boat less likley to get pierced during...
Building a flat bottom steam sidewheeler, the project has gotten underway in earnest this month, the hull is very similar to a conventional...
The FreeShip version I have gives twenty frames, and a grid with a spacing that is not too usable, (such as 1ft - 1.6 in, 2 ft 3.2 in, etc.) on...
I want to build a simple, flat bottom, vertical stem, plywood boat with fiberglass over the hull exterior. It will be a steam sidewheeler, having...
I have some data on a small displacement boat: 15 ft LWL 0.75 tons 4.5 Knots 1.0 SHP Prop 500 RPM 14 inch dia x 14 inch pitch with 22%...
I am looking for good technical design data for a small sidewheeler paddle boat. Technical details: Boat 16ft x 5ft x 8 inch draft, 1400...