New Wilderness Tripper Canoe Plans

http://www.jemwatercraft.com/proddetail.php?prod=Sas18.5

 

Thanks,

 

Matt

For Sale - Two Tender Boats

I have two 2.3 metre (7’ 6”) tender boats to which are both of stich and glue construction (plywood). These boats have been used once only since they were built and are kept under storage since.  

 

One is a flat bottomed boat and the other is a multi chine boat, both boats have the following listed:

 

• A full length keel.
• Floorboards with anti slip floor covering.
• 3 coats of epoxy resin bot in and out and also the have 6 coats of marine varnish for the timber work.
• Both boats are very stable and quite fast under rowing
• Both boats are light weight and low maintenance
• Both boats come with One (1) trolley to which can be used for the flat bottom or multi chine boat
• A set of oars comes with One(1) boat only
• Both can fit on a 8’ 0” X 4’ 0” trailer or inside a van
• Both boats are well suited as a tender boat, small fishing boat, hunting boat or rowing boat
• Suited for two adults or four small children

 

This is a genuine sale, so no time wasters

Have photos if requested

Cost $ 850.00 ONO for Each Boat

For further information Contact: Josemond

Email: joz1971@hotmail.com

Canal Boat Update

Canal Boat's JEZEBELE II page has been updated with the new photos. Click HERE to go directly to page 4.

 

Keep up the good works CB... I am still amazed at the scale of your project...

EARLY SUMMER UPDATE

Just a brief update of the activities the past month or so.

 

1. Layed most of the subflooring in a temporary  condition untill I figure where to

    cut all the required hatches.

2. Installed the subflooring for the pilot house in preperation for future framing.

3. Finished the starboard side bow ribs and moved the jig to align these ribs

    to the port side to install the ribs there.

4. Ran the engines and gen-set for the first time this year. I like to run them

    3-4 times each year for 15-20 minutes to keep the insides coated with oil.

5. Installed the deck shelf down both sides in the area's where they are

    straight. Will start the laminations around the curves by month end.

5. Installed the inner deck beam supports down both sides of the pilot house.

6. Completed building the 52 laminated deck beams and have trimmed the first

    6 in preperation for the deck framing that I plan to complete before fall.

7. Purchased the tub and shower enclosuer and placed in side before all the

    ribs are in place. Much easier now.

8. Built temporary steps to the pilot house. I built these per the design as a test

    and found out they dont work worth a darn. Back to the drawing board.

9. Did a mock layout of the interior to get a better feel of things. Used black

    electrical tape on the subflooring. Found the need for some changes. Back

    to the drawing board again.

10. Total boat weight at this time is 21,270#. Sure hope I'm on target.

11. You can see most of these projects in the new pictures posted today,

      they are photos 175 thru 180.

 

Best of luck to you all on your own projects. Any volunteers please step forward.

Old Site Deleted

As most of you know, this site was created in part because the old site "The Wooden Boat Builder" was not being managed. The person who created that site did so and never returned. Nevertheless, MSN Groups has deleted that site due to the unsavory content of messages posted there.

 

I just thought it was interesting that this was finally done and thought I would share it with yous.

Mason clipper

Hi kruez. Hope you had a great weekend at the brickyard pity about the result but thats motor racing poor scoty just did'nt have the pace on the day.

Any way about more important things , we have finaly finnished the interior of "Princess" pics on web site under "Princess gallery" what a battle, bloody upholsterer let me down but we got there in the end, more grey hairs. so now the dilema  sell her or keep her who nows anyway whatever will be will be

Keep up the great site

cheers john

Help on painting

Thank you for accepting my membership request.

I am NEW in the wooden boat world. I purchased a 23 foot Clippercraft 2 weeks ago. She was built in 1983 out of mahogany plywood. The owner of the boat painted her, I am not sure what kind of paint it is. The oringinal paint is still the only layer she has on. It has been stored in a garage all of its life 21 years. The paint at plywood ends at the transome has worn away the topside has small blisters on it.

 

The construction on the side gunnels are plywood strips screwed and epoxyed to a 1.5 inch strips creating a lapped plank look.

 

My big questions are. Do I need to strip all of the paint off the hull before I repaint her or can I sand the good paint and reapply a new layer? If I need to strip all the paint off will a heat gun distroy the epoxy bond between the plywood and 1.5 inch strips? Should I use an epoxy penitrator to seal the ends of the plywood. The boat will be on a trailer all the time with a week being the longest it will remain in the water can I use top paint for the bottom or is it recomended to use bottom paint? I plan to spend many hours on the Pacific ocean chasing salom and halibut.

 

attached is a picture of a simular boat. Unfortunitly I do not have a digital camera.

 

Thank you for any input you might have.

 

Steve

Attachment: Clippercraft.jpg

New Boat Plans

Greetings builders,

I'm pleased to annouce 2 updates to our plans.

The Buccaneer is now available in metric:
http://jem.e-boat.net/proddetail.php?prod=BC16

The Cape Fear now comes in 12' and 16' versions:
http://jem.e-boat.net/proddetail.php?prod=RK-CF

And I'm VERY pleased to annouce a Stitch and Glue version of the world
famous Kruger Sea Wind(tm)...we call ours Zephyrus.
http://jem.e-boat.net/proddetail.php?prod=Zeph17

-- 
Matt Langenfeld
JEM Watercraft
http://jem.e-boat.net/

Picture of the week

Wow. On the the cover of the Rolling Stone.....ah I mean the Wooden Boat Builder.

 

Hey Kruz, I'm honored. Thanks. We'll make steady progress on her. I expect to be in the water by the middle of June and then engine rebuilt and all the other fun stuff. Can't wait to shake this wood boat fever.

 

George

CAULKING

Its time to start the permanent installation of some under water hardware. I'm interested in info for the best type of caulking for beding struts, rudder glands, and thru hull fittings. What say you all?

 

CB

Sound off thread

How about a "sound off" as to where everyone is from? City, State, Country (If not US). I'll start...

 

Indianapolis, Indiana (It's May, Race month, anyone going?)

 

Kruez

epoxy on hull

     I am considering building a plywood skiff(screw & glue), using a high quality ply such as Meranti. I have also been considering putting 2 or 3 coats of West System Epoxy on the completed hull.  My thinking is that it will act as a moisture barrier which will lessen the need for painting every season and add some strenght/rigidity to the hull. Having never done either of these things before, I am thowing this out for some suggestions/opinions! (help)

AN OFFER TOO GOOD NOT TO CONSIDER

 AN OFFER TOO GOOD NOT TO CONSIDER

Greetings all. My apologies for having been terribly slow in getting this out. Computer and Health problems. Limping along....but aaaaanyway.... Welcome to all the new members - glad to see new neighbors......aaaaand....

 

Got an e from a fellow in Australia who happens to be a pretty talented boat designer, computer programmer and all around stellar fellow I am proud to call friend. The following is a paragraph I've just got to share with the rest of the group. This might be an offer "too good to refuse" - or at least consider deeply if you've got the wantas for a summer project. If I wasn't up to my little flat butt in barking alligators I would probably start ordering plywood this weekend. Looks like a great catamaran design, an opportunity for fame and fortune and the chance to feed the greed monster to boot.

 

If you look in the subjects list of the WBB site you'll see a "HOT CHILI" folder there with some sketches and some build notes from Jeff's stash, per his permission to post the offer to the Wooden Boat Builder membership.

 

Excerpt from e-mail from Jeff Gilbert, Designer:

 

"while I was away in Tasmania this summer the Hot Chili prototype project in Adelaide, instead of being launched came to a sudden halt...So I'd very much like a sailing Chili scooting about with attendant photos. What I've decided to do is offer a reward - a 200% refund for the first Chili to hit the water with a write-up and sailing photos. That means a full refund of the plan price and the same again, which means $200.00. For this I need a few dated launch and under sail photos of a bona fide (full size {ed}) non-cardboard cutout Hot Chili containing people and/or dogs. Sky hooks, towropes and Rhino drawings floating at the top of Niagra Falls are right out. This should be pretty fair as no one has started yet, or if they have they haven't mentioned it..."

 

Cheers,

Jeff Gilbert

 

 

 

Hot Chili Plans and photos

http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/r/designs/gilbert/hotchili/hc.htm

Forum

http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/r/forum.htm

Designs

http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/designs.htm

Dreamboats

http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/r/columns.htm

Alleycat 20ft mini Liveaboard.

http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/r/designs/gilbert/alley/cat.htm

Gumboots fast simple 31ft Ocean Cat

http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/designs/gilbert/gumboots/index.htm

Cartaphylla 22ft 8 inch Ocean Schooner

http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/designs/gilbert/cartaphylla/index.htm

Squeezebox liferaft

http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/columns/dreamboats/squezebox.htm

http://www.cfproductions.com/castcrew/alanshaklee/boat.htm

Design Philosophy (old)

http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/designs/gilbert/Ketchup/designs.htm

Other people

PVC/Wood laminate mast...how to build

http://catalog.com/bobpone/coldmoulded.htm

Telescoping flagpoles ...

http://www.dcmfg.com/Flagpole.html

http://www.boatdesign.net/articles/mast-materials/index.htm

 

 

 

Interior design aids

Hi Kruez  I was wondering if you might be able to help. A freind of mine is in the process of buying a 60' cruiser of the late 50's early 60's vintage that definitley needs a major redesign of the interior. not only is it in a fairly run down condition, the layout is a disaster. Question is there any freebe design aids about that we can play with before he starts getting carried away. just something fairly simple that we can design cabin layouts, heads, showers that sort of thing,to scale to make sure they will fit. every thing we found so far is only hull design not inside design

cheers kaspa

Old Boat Plans

I found a site that has lots of old boat plans from magazine articles.  They look very interesting and could be modified for modern construction.       http://www.svensons.com/boat/          

Polytarp Sails or other homemade sails

Has anyone made their own sails from the polytarp kit? Or just made their own sails period? If so, what did you use? How did it/they turn out?

I am considering a polytarp sail for a homemade catboat.

Sit On Top Kayak plans

Greetings Builders,

A fine day to build your own Sit On Top kayak isn't it? We're mighty proud
of her as the VERY FIRST set of SOT kayak plans available.

http://jem.e-boat.net/proddetail.php?prod=CFSOT16

This one is a big one: almost 16' long and 31" wide. She's made for
stability and can carry a big load. Great for fishing. We'll follow up
with 2 other versions:

-14' and 28" wide
-12" and 26" wide

After that, some new styles of SOTs with different hull shapes.

Thanks!

help with bouyancey equation

Hi people, I trust every one had a great easter break. My problem, apart from life, is bouyancy. I dont no if you have seen "princess"  in the projects but she is a 23'cedar planked hull with an 8'2'' beam and 12 degree dead rise, weight fully loaded aprox 4500lb. we have installed a 165 hp turbo diesel instead of the 350 small block chevy that she originally had and the weight of the diesel and leg is aproxx 490kg around the same as the oridginal chev and leg.the problem is she wants to drag her bum in the water all the time. even up on the plane with the leg trimed in she wants to ride with the bow high. if i use the trim tabs to bring her down a bit it just acts as a hand break and washes off speed. My thoughts are this,would extentions on each side of the hull at the transom help.ie carry the water line aft and use them as bouyancy tanks come boarding platform, if so what would be the sugestion for length volume etc to hopefully get her to plane a bit better. i have absolutely no knowledge at all in this area so any advice at all would be appreciated

cheers john

1962 Chris Craft Constellation

Wow. Two months later and we're almost done replanking. Starting to look really good.

 

Thought I was gonna get out of it cheap but no the maritime gods delivered a blow. Seems like my twin 430 Lincolns are seized due to the fact the previous owner had trucked the boat a short distance to another yard and water got into the exhaust and into the engines....

 

Rick Miller in Miami gave me the name of a good mechanic. John Munshaw. John's a hoot and I think we're gonna be good friends for a long time. If anybody else out here is into Connies give me a shout. I'll be posting more pics later.....

 

George

Pictures Posted

I just uploaded some views of a 16-1/2' cargo canoe I built in 2002 for my son in Texas.  She's kinda patchwork patterned, because the salvaged wood all had to be scarfed before it got cut into strips.  For the past 25 years, it had been a neighbor's deck and a couple of mountain ash trees in my backyard.

JR