A long while ago,
before we were building shepherds huts, Dave built a few small wooden
sailing and rowing boats. These boats were built mainly for the fun
of it. However they were mostly quite good little boats and in the
main quite successful and satisfying builds.
Late in 2019 Dave got the boat building bug again and started a strip planked boat, the frames for which were done on the CNC machine while the rest of the planks would be hand machined. This boat is slowly coming together.
Which brings us to this year, and we've got an idea to offer plywood boat kits for sale. The great thing about plywood boats is that they look like boats faster than strip planking. The hard part is marking out the plywood and cutting all the parts just right so that the stitch and glue construction works.
Our idea is to take the hard part away from the build.
Late in 2019 Dave got the boat building bug again and started a strip planked boat, the frames for which were done on the CNC machine while the rest of the planks would be hand machined. This boat is slowly coming together.
This strip planked boat is from a set of purchased plans that we've had for a while.
The frames were cut out on the CNC machine, the cedar strips were then processed on site.
The frames were cut out on the CNC machine, the cedar strips were then processed on site.
Which brings us to this year, and we've got an idea to offer plywood boat kits for sale. The great thing about plywood boats is that they look like boats faster than strip planking. The hard part is marking out the plywood and cutting all the parts just right so that the stitch and glue construction works.
Our idea is to take the hard part away from the build.
We supply all the
plywood parts already cut out using our CNC machine and a set of
instructions.
The customer can then
have all the fun and satisfaction of building their boat, without the
worse bit.
A good project for kids
and parents to do together?
That's the plan. We are
working on a couple of prototypes at the moment and as soon as we are
happy with the concept we'll get them out there.
The prototypes are
being put together in the new shed, a new project suits a new shed,
which keeps them out of our way while we work on other things.
Pieces being cut out |
The pieces for this test build |
Gluing and taping the first pieces together |
Starting to look a bit boat shaped. |
Plans for this mini one sheet boat are from:
http://flo-mo.weebly.com/one-sheet-boats.html
http://flo-mo.weebly.com/one-sheet-boats.html
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