30' plywood sharpie

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Good Luck!
Angel

 

Perhaps the right paint scheme will help.

 

Maybe something like this would work?

 

I like! You made the sharpie look like a God only knows.

 

I edited the post, and added more possibilities....

 

Troy , your model is coming along nicely. A nice pop top cabin would allow you to keep the height down , or a tent would help .

good luck , Frank

 

I'm seriously considering the pop top, Frank. Depends on what I think of the looks when I'm done, plus what I think of the headroom when I do a full-sized mockup of the cabin.

Obviously, my general rule of thumb is to keep it stupid, Simple....avoiding complications is a good thing. If I think it works without building a pop top, I'm probably not going to build one.

I'm also keeping in mind that past a certain point, this boat is what it is. I don't want it to be ugly and top-heavy looking, but I'm not going to beat my brains out trying to hide the fact that it's a cruising sharpie, either -- any more than I worry about my Jeep or my pickup not having the lines of a sports car.

As far as looks go, I do believe I've turned out a reasonably attractive hull. Built with a large oval cockpit like its ancestors had, it would make a nice daysailor or tent camper.

 

Last week a neighbor insulted my 92 f150 . He said that me and my truck would be better in West Virgina .

 

Welcome to my world. When I first came home dragging my battered, faded old Astrocruiser I/O behind my equally beat-up old Jeep, my wife came out, made a complete circle around everything, and stood there without saying a word. So like the idiot I am, I asked her, "well, what do you think?

And she replied, "wonderful. Now we're the Beverly Hillbillies of the boating set, too."

She considers my fondness for functional but beat-up old tools, guns, boats and vehicles with 'character' to be the sort of genetic disorder they should be testing prospective husbands for.

 

Troy,
Seeing 27 pages, I haven't looked back, but attach lines for Carolina Schooners from Chappell.
A Cabin will catch some windage,, but water is still thicker.
Both have their effects.
Bill PKS

 

Hello, Bill. Thanks for the link.

If I were going with a larger boat, the Carolina sharpies would be my model. But they're more craft than I want to trailer or single-hand; most of them were forty feet or longer.

 

I bet he drives a Pious. . . . until the brakes fail.

 

Troy,
Just thought the cabin form might be of interest.
Bill PKS

 

OK; thanks for the clarification. I'll take another look at them then, paying more attention to the cabins.