Lap strake boat furniture

Discussion in 'Boatbuilding' started by Guest, Apr 16, 2002.

  1. Guest

    Guest Guest

    I would like to construct a 4 to 5 foot lap strake boat with a flat gunrail for use as a coffee table. Can anyone help with available plans.
     
  2. Jeff
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    Jeff Moderator

    I'm one of those people who thinks it's a sin to make "a boat that's not really a boat" so I don't have any great leads for you, but here's one possible starting point:

    The Cradle Boat Book by Peter H. Spectre, Buckley Smith ISBN 0937822167

    I don't have any experience with this or with building a boat as a coffee table, so take that for what it's worth :)

    Or maybe http://www.duck-trap.com/2002lw.html

    Also take a look at some of the free plans available from Gavin Atkin’s Free Boat Design Resources site: http://home.clara.net/gmatkin/freedes.htm

    And finally the Duckworks Magazine site might be a starting point: http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/designs.htm

    For example: http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/designs/atkin/breton/ or http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/designs/smallboats/calicohunter/
     
  3. tspeer
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    tspeer Senior Member

    There's an outfit, I believe in Minnesota, that makes one commercially. Lapstrake dinghy, bent frames, inner and outer gunwales, the works. I found mine at a furniture store.

    The boat has a normal shear and the stem extends above the breastplate. There are four knees that support a sheet of glass shaped to fit inside the boat below the gunwales. It looks good and I think I like the normal shear better than I would a flat shear with glass overlapping the boat.
     

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