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Nice, but while you are at it, add small livewell type plugs along the covering boards as it looks like the coaming drops down below the decking, so that the boat will self drain instead of moping or bailing the boat out when you flip it when carrying it or storing it on its side .

The boat is a slight alteration of many of the extreme sportfishing hulls in the area of the pancake decks thats common these days. The bow is fuller allowing for more fishing room on deck not withstanding more bottom foward for down sea running too. The added running and reverse strakes also...

In regards to photos gone missing, photobucket did an update about the same time I attempted to change my email address and organize shots into a named album. Don't do that, or either I ain't the smartest lightbulb in the socket. I finally said screw it and started over once again in another...

Be carefull when choosing the well known Luan plywoods. The thickness of the veneers in some of the normal lumberyard stuff lacks the quality interior cores for much strength. Its changed over the years for sure. Superply is probably the only thing that I would use unless your local yard is...

You really need to also know the ratios, beam to length too. A flat bottom hard chined pram in the neighborhood of three to four feet in beam versus eight foot long compared to even a 16 foot dory type boat has incredible differences in regards to stability with the narrower beamed bottom versus...

This is a composite fibeglass stringer bottom lapstrake hull sitting on an offical scales. The boat is 24 foot long, 8'2" beam ready to run, fuel included. The trailer weighs 870. The total package sits at 3,000 lbs. The boat required no interal framing even though the main bulkheads does create...

What I am saying is that a lapstrake hull is structual without a single ounce of fiberglass and one inch or one ounce of thickened epoxy fillet in the boat. The rails and the transfer of stresses fore and aft with a cap and even quarter knees at the transom creates a solid and sea worthy hull...

The lap creates a structual component using hull scantlings to do so without increasing hull thickness, hince the reason you can reduce your hull scantlings for the entire boat. A S&G depends on a combination of components that creates a seaworthy hull. The additional weight when comparing the...

For some perspective, building lapstrake with solid timber does not create a big leaker these days. Even in the past Simmons built every single boat using lapstrake and not a single bit of filler, sealer of compound in the seams. You could dissasemble them in a flash, but were used in the...

Lapstrake boats serves a lot of different purposes beyond nice looking, IMO. As a rule you can build a boat that weighs less. You can surely paint the boat easier by yourself for the larger ones. But you can also build using solid timber if you are a so called purist and not have the numerous...

If you look closely you can see that we also throughbolt the joints and then in the forefoot[the most extreme turn of the stems] we back up that section in really large boats with additional pieces. You can do this with a really wide piece and make the joints into the wider pieces. Hope this...

Seedtick just a learner. Thats why he doesn't cut the back side out. :oops: :lol: :lol: :lol: XXXOOO But anyway cutting the back side out actually weakens the piece. While it may not make much of a difference in small craft cross grain or exposed grain overtime has a tendancy to split. When...

I have never been a person that uses a boat that did not at some time need to fix a ding, scratch or upgrade a finish. If it was not me if you have any family or guests on board neithe are as particular as I will be knowing the differences in finishes if a problem arises. Not having the luxuary...

This is a wooden hull thats just been sprayed with the clearcoat over a wooden runabout in florida. There are guys doing this now even though I am a fan of varnish on boats that are actually used.

The key to clear finishes for longivity is to completely seal wood drain to achieve a smoothe surface over the wood. This is where either epoxy or many coats of varnish in any manner whether it be thinned or not is important. But when finishing wood clear, you must first make sure that the wood...

LOL! I know these types of threads are supposed to be serious business, so I will keep things short and to the point. Since I have a new grandchild in that area we are indeed planning a trip after the long cold winter months that we have about that time of year. Of course eating food is my...

I am just getting around to opening this thread up and see that the boys of summer have been out playing a bit with their shiny tools. :lol: Its nice to see you guys sharing your skills and knowledge. March 19? was mentioned as a day of a gathering. Can you point us all to that link too? TIA

Thinking is one thing, The next step is thinking out loud sir. You are at strike two my dear friend. :lol: :lol: So how is the dry stock of wood holding up? :P

LOL! seedtick, thats so true about the boat ramp banter. But bunches of strip planked hulls have been buit in the teens range and continue to be built as long as people are willing to pay for them. First thing that folks need to do is to give up their notion of comparing prices to fiberglass...

Theres not much else that can be said about all your toys. But just wanted to add my thumbs up! I really like that greenish blue interior though.