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 | Bill Grumbine's
Personal Space I've come here many times
to check out what is going on in the boat building cyberworld. Now it's my turn to
contribute. Bill |
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| Building Tennessee Chuck
Leinweber built one of Phil Bolgers "state" boats, and cruises it on the gulf
coast |
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| FRAM- means
"forward" in Norwegian. This is a site about homebuilding an F-39 in The
Netherlands in a town called Hilversum, about 20 miles ESE of Amsterdam.
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| Herb's
Boat Pages Herb now reviews the following
boats that he has built: Jim Michalak's 15' camp/cruiser sharpie AF3 (first built) Don
Moor's 17' kayak Lightning Ken Brown's Lark Ken Swan's Little Gem Plans and building
instructions for my design of a one sheet of plywood skiff American Plywod Association One
Man Dinghy and Reuel Parker's 19' Ohio Sharpie. |
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| Building
RUTU, a 45' Performance Sailboat-This is a
45' performance cutter designed by John Fox in strip/composite. This site goes into a lot
of detail on the gathering of material, construction, financing and psychology of building
a large boat by yourself. |
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| Kayak, stitch
and glue A detailed journal by George McQuade on building a Nick Schade designed,
plywood, sea kayak. Includes photos, plans, and drawings of construction details.
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| Kayaks using
aerospace composites Professional adventurer, Ray Jardine, provides a wealth of
information concerning the construction of kayaks to his own designs using modern
materials. A very good resource for those comtemplating the ultimate super-light boat.
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| Kevin's
Wooden Boat Page I just uploaded this first update of building Chesapeake Lght
Craft's new 18' Sharpie. Please stop by. |
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| Kayak, West Greenland
style Jim Coburn provides lots of information about building a canvas covered, wood
frame kayak in the style of the West Greenland boats. |
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| International Fireball The
Fireball is a one-design class high performance 16' two person racing dinghy. Class rules
still allow home construction in plywood. |
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| Micro John Morrice tells of
building the Phil Bolger Micro. Great photos and a light hearted look at the project.
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| OS-44, 44' Steel Yawl Bruce
Gennette is building a yawl to a design by Bruce Roberts. These pages also contain insight
on the decisions taken into account when choosing a design, the cost of building,
selecting a workspace, and other generally useful information. |
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| CANDU-EZ
A.K.A. The Mini-Tugboat Page. Information concerning construction of the Berkley
Engineering designed CANDU-EZ. Site maintained by Alan Locke. |
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| Chebacco 20
A newsletter by Bill Samson for builders of the Phil Bolger designed Chebaco 20. Lots of
good pics and information. |
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| Cherub, 12' The
Cherub is a 12', 2-person, racing dinghy with spinnaker and trapeze. The Cherub is a
development class (as opposed to a one-design class) so the budding go-fast designer can
have fun too. |
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| Classic Moth
The official web site for the Classic Moth Boat Association. "Classic Moth Boats are
a class of small single-handed racing sailboats that originated in the US in 1929. Classic
Moths are a development class with an eleven foot over-all length, a maximum beam of 60
inches, a minimum hull weight of 75 pounds and very few other restrictions As such the
Classic Moth Boat is an ideal class for amateur designers builders and tinkerers."
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| Cutter, 17' A 17'
cutter, Toad Hall, designed by W.P. Stephens is being built by David Goodchild in
the Philadelphia area. David is using many innovative ideas in the construction of this
boat that he intends to use in the North Sea. |
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| Cutter, 38' The
history and restoration of the gaff cutter Aorere. She was launched in 1898 having
been built to an A.L. Scott design by E.G. Phillips. |
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| Cutter,
50' Welded Steel The cutter Tavake was designed for builder/owner Peter Kinsey
by Laurent Giles Ltd. She is now operated as charter vessel in the Pacific Ocean.
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| Dinghy,
7' The adventures of a doctor in Singapore(?) that has the boatbuilding bug. Photos
and anecdotes of his first project, a 7'x2' dinghy, as well as information about the
current project to build a catamaran from PVC pipe |
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| Dory, 17'
Swampscott Very nice set of pages put up by Hugh McLean detailing his construction of
a Swampscott Dory from lines obtained from Mystic Seaport Museum. Traditional construction
used |
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| Dory, 34' junk-rigged Roger
Derby (Dallas/Ft. Worth area of Texas) is still in the design phase on his dory. These
pages contain photos of a design model and limited commentary regarding the design. Roger
also has photos of his work on a Danny Greene designed Chameleon dinghy that will be used
as a tender for the dory. |
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| Ferrocement Sailing
Cruiser, 57' The Wood family in England offers a terrific series of photos and
comments about the construction of their sailing cruiser. Lots of photos starting with
building the armature and ending with a shot of the boat rigged and in the water.
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| Glastron, 1959 ski boat
While not about new construction, David Erwin of Austin, Texas has put together a
wonderful Web site about the restoration of a fiberglass ski boat that has been in his
family since it was new. |
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| Gloucester Light Gull
Photos and comments on building the famous Phil Bolger design. Builder not known, located
on Cape Cod. |
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| Haven 12
1/2 Don McConnell is doing a terrific job on building this Joel White design. Nice
pages in the "builders log" style. |
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| International
Contender This is a page within the International Contender Class Association site.
The Contender was designed by Bob Miller and Ben Lexcen and class rules still allow
"home builders". Photos of boat apparently built by Joachim Harpprecht.
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| International Thunderbird The
Thunderbird class sailboat was designed in 1958 by Seattle, Washington naval architect Ben
Seaborn, in response to a request from the Douglas Fir Plywood Association (now APA - The
Engineered Wood Association) of Tacoma, Washington for design proposals for a sailboat
that would "... be both a racing and cruising boat; provide sleeping accomodations
for four crew; be capable of being built by reasonably skilled amateurs; provide auxiliary
power by an outboard motor that could be easily removed and stowed; and out-perform other
sailboats in its class." |
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| Kayak, Aleut-style
Aluminum frame, fabric covered kayaks (ala Dyson) being built by Hiro Hayashida of Japan.
Pages are a mixture of English and Japanese, so they are a challenge to decipher at this
point. Nice photos. |
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| Kayak, 17'
canvas covered Matthew Bastian has photos of a nice looking kayak that he built from
plans that date back to the 1930's. He says his wife was initially skeptical but she
became a kayak convert after the first paddle!. |
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| Kayak, cedar strip
Charles Patterson of Vancouver, Canada, has put up informative pages about his experiences
building a cedar strip kayak. |
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| Kayak, Mill Creek Double
David Gulick has photos of the Chesapeake Light Craft design that he built from one of
their kits. |
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| Pram, 7' 9" Nymph Joe
McWilliams has a very complete page about the construction of his Bolger designed sailing
pram. |
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| Pram, 7' Plywood Vee-bottom NEW Rick Nelson of Huntsville, Alabama has a couple of photos of
his pram under construction. The designer isn't given but it may be a Bolger Nymph.
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| Raft, 5'
A small raft, River Rat, constructed by Michael Welch using blue foam, fiberglass,
and plywood. Designed to fit in the back of an '87 Nissan Pathfinder.
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| Steamboat Stuff
"Steamboat Ed" Haas publishes Steamboat Notes and other stuff about steam
powered boats, steam engines, boilers, metal work, and several other topics. An eclectic
site that is fun to browse. |
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| Steam Launch Bart
Smaalder has put up a couple of photos of a nifty 19' Steam Launch. This is a wood hull
(designer not given) with an engine made from an old refrigeration compressor!
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| Steam Launch, 21.5' A
21.5'x6.5' cedar strip planked steam launch built by Alfred E. Dunlop of New Jersey.
Alfred has put up a series of photos that illustrate the building process. Looks like she
will be powered by a Semple 3"x4" engine using an owner fabricated boiler.
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| Steam Launch, 23'
A 23' fiberglass hull steam launch built by John A. Duffy and family. The Lady Anne
is powered by a 1904 Stanley Steam Car engine and based in Fenwick Island, Deleware. Nice
photos of a good looking boat. |
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| Steam Tug, 14 meters
Renovation of the S/S Robert a steam tug built in Bergsund (Sweden?) in 1866. These
pages are available in English or Swedish. |
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| Tiki 21 An up to date account of Dave Mills' progress on the Wharram
Tiki 21 he is building in Tasmania. Many links to other Wharram resources on the Net |
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| Tiki 21 The Wharram
designed Tiki 21 Vaitea under construction in Austria by David Wagner. At least I
think that is what is going on. The pages are in German. |
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| Tiki 26 A Wharram
Tiki 26 being built in New York by Andy Preston. Also, photos of a Shell Boats Lief 7.
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| Titmouse
Entertaining page about Mike Eisenstadts' experience building the Sam Rabl designed
Titmouse inside his house in Austin, Texas. A little taste of life in Austin for folks
that haven't been here. Nifty watery background and a little Javascript thrown in too!
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| Various - Osram VII Tony
Bigras appears to be a computer technician that is into recreational boat building in a
big way. Check out the 100 lb. dory-style dinghy in 3/32" aluminum. The current
project is Osram VII, a 48' catamaran in aluminum. Impressive work! |
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| Tug, 40' Steel
Welded steel tugboat built by Stewart and Lela Marshall. Main power is provided by a 60hp
Atlas Imperial diesel engine. Stewart has information on parts and repair for Atlas
engines as well as information about home building a foundry cupola.
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| Various
The Griffin family in Alaska has built a Bolger Nymph and a Glen-L designed Sherwood
Queen. There is also an essay on building your own boat vs. buying a boat.
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| Various Tom
Raidna is developing The Home Boat Builders Page: The WWW page for small boat home
builders. There is info on a number of different projects. |
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| Various: 6.5 meter
cutter, sailing dinghy L.J.A. Koster is currently building a 6.5 meter cutter to his
own design in Holland. Also has photos of a sailing dinghy built with his father.
Outstanding craftmanship! |
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| Various traditional designs
Ron Ginger has built a number of fine boats over the years. Seems to be doing more metal
work than boat building these days though. Photos of a 'glass hulled steam launch that he
and a partner finished out that runs an engine that Ron built. Incredible work.
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| Wherry, 14' Cosine A
nice little strip-planked rowing boat built by Tim Lowe using the book Rip, Strip, and
Row!. |
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| Windmill Class
association page for the Clark Mills designed 15 1/2 foot Windmill 2-person racing dinghy.
Intended for amateur builders and wood boats are competitive with the 'glass boats.
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| Windsprint
John Bell has done an outstanding job of building Phil Bolgers' 16' Windsprint design. The
boat is named "Mejor que Nada" and the site has photos, a sail plan drawing, and
a builders log. |
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| Windsprint
Photos of "Cool Change", a Bolger Windsprint built by Robert Berger. Also, info
on a 15' catamaran runabout design project. |
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| Stella Blue
- an old Landfall 38 is rescued from the boneyard and remade in style-
great site, lots of pics and well written |
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