![]() Here is a slideshow of the whole build which was just finished in time for summer this year, there is also some video footage at the end. It consists of the entire boat building process from conception to the final product. There is a wide selection of woods used mostly taken from the bits that I had lying around the workshop, in fact I almost considered calling her scrapie! The keel is piranha pine, stringers are ash, all rubbing strakes are oak, as is the windscreen, the seats are mahogany and ash and the comings and dash are made from 1.5mm teak laminated veneers. ![]() I felt like I had learnt from mistakes and slip ups on the previous boats and was more determined to focus on a better finish standard this time. Again construction is ply on frame but built with a little more attention to detail this time around. Lady S came next on the list, sourced from the same plan archive as Cobra and Jazz Baby she was born from the Playboy set. Fifty Wooden Boats : A Catalog of Building Plans 325-060. This skiff hull has evolved over 35 yers of continual on the water use in my own life. Browse and buy a vast selection of NBD-Boat Building & Design Books and Collectibles on. After that I’d pretty much decided that wood was the way to go for me, much more friendly to work with so I think that’s the way it will be from here on out. A Adarwin Wooden Boat Building Wooden Boat Plans Wooden Boats Yacht Design Small Yachts Skiffs Dinghy I get lots of queries about needing a small yacht dinghy or something small and light enough to car top. Next in line was a little tender, I bought myself a mould on eBay for a simple 10′ boat and, after taking a 5 day fiberglassing course at the Boat Building Academy in Lyme Regis I set about building my first all fiberglass boat. I bought a Coronet 21 cabin cruiser which I set about restoring, I didn’t much enjoy that one (especially paying for it) and soon decided to sell it on before the expense got too much. After Aurora II I had decided to have a bit of a break from the boatbuilding and see if there might be some sort of profit in restoring something and in my experience … there isn’t.
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