Thanks for changing e mail addy I have experenced problems with spam and that addy is a no account that I can rename and change so no real harm can be done ( I hope) thanks All the offer of help is still open
Stephen
Hi - new, and asking all the familiar questions!
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[quote]Vic - are there plans available for that wooden dinghy design [quote]No I'm afraid not. It's unique. The design was inspired by the "Jack Sprat", available in the 1970s from Jack Holt, but all I had to go on were the photos in the promotional literature. I did some drawings, then made a small cardboard model followed by a lager model from thin hardboard to test that it really would work out.
It is sized so that it could be cut from two 8' x 4' sheets of ply. So it is 8' long measured along the gunwale. If I was doing it again I would buy two sheets of different thicknesses in order to make the bottom thicker. It would make it heavier of course.
The ply panels are fasted together by the stitch and glass tape method similar to the Mirror dinghy except that I only used copper stitches in strategic positions (A few at the ends and a few more in the middle) with a contiuous lacing with nylon monofilament fishing line in between. A method I had used to build a canoe.
It is sized so that it could be cut from two 8' x 4' sheets of ply. So it is 8' long measured along the gunwale. If I was doing it again I would buy two sheets of different thicknesses in order to make the bottom thicker. It would make it heavier of course.
The ply panels are fasted together by the stitch and glass tape method similar to the Mirror dinghy except that I only used copper stitches in strategic positions (A few at the ends and a few more in the middle) with a contiuous lacing with nylon monofilament fishing line in between. A method I had used to build a canoe.
Thanks Vic, I get your drift.
I might just try it on my new 8'x4' ply dinghy which I recently completed....I had installed a commercially available rubber bump strip but it is not standing up to normal robust use.
My dinghy is a modern interpretation of the plan shape of a William Atkin dinghy of the 30's,given a shallow "v" to permit use of 6mm ply bottom instead of the original 1/2" & made in stich & glue.
She rows well & I have just finished fitting her out for sailing with a balanced lug sail.
She was designed by Ross Lillistone of Bayside Wooden Boats in Queensland,Australia & can be seen on his website at:
www.baysidewoodenboats.com.au
She is called "Alby"....& mine is the prototype.....dunno why Ross called her "Alby" though!?
She is currently powered occasionly by a Mercury 2hp o/b but is destined to be graced on her transom with my old '42 model 102 Seagul when I get around to getting it going.
Al Burke
I might just try it on my new 8'x4' ply dinghy which I recently completed....I had installed a commercially available rubber bump strip but it is not standing up to normal robust use.
My dinghy is a modern interpretation of the plan shape of a William Atkin dinghy of the 30's,given a shallow "v" to permit use of 6mm ply bottom instead of the original 1/2" & made in stich & glue.
She rows well & I have just finished fitting her out for sailing with a balanced lug sail.
She was designed by Ross Lillistone of Bayside Wooden Boats in Queensland,Australia & can be seen on his website at:
www.baysidewoodenboats.com.au
She is called "Alby"....& mine is the prototype.....dunno why Ross called her "Alby" though!?
She is currently powered occasionly by a Mercury 2hp o/b but is destined to be graced on her transom with my old '42 model 102 Seagul when I get around to getting it going.
Al Burke
Yes, just to get in and out of the boatyard entrance. It's a narrow channel at low water and even at high water boats alongside etc are a bit of an obstruction. I am quite surprised no one else has copied the idea.On closer inspection,I notice you have a rowlock box on the transom which suggests you do some sculling?