Hello all, new to boat building.

Hello all,
I have been looking at all these home built boats and have become very intrigued. Some of you craftsmen have built some extremely beautiful boats.
One model I have been looking at seriously is the Glen-L ZIP. I have noticed that this is a plywood boat and was wondering how this wood plank looking finish in this photo was achieved? By paint and stain or ?

Link to photo http://www.glen-l.com/designs/outboard/dsn-zipa.html

Thanks

 

Very nice, I would suspect it was seperate (cut) pieces of wood glued onto a thin plywood deck, then with something laid in-between the strips. There are many different ways of achieving this sort of deck-pattern.

Tim B.

 

Looking closely at the photo, the "grain" in the top veneer of the plywood matches across between the individual "planks". This would lead me to believe that the same sheet of plywood was used to create both. Using a somwhat thicker plywood than would normally be called for (1 or 2 veneers) carefully route out a veneer or two deep for the "plank seams"; stain and finish the "new planks"; then tape the seam lines and fill with something like Sekaflex in an appropriate color. I've done it this way and it works ok.

 

Thanks for the input,
I really love the look of that type of deck design. Older cris craft boats use a similar pattern.

 

You might even get away with Varnish/pinstripe (with paint)/Varnish

 

That's kinda what I was thinking.
Smoke and mirrors lol