Boatbuilder Tips for Amateurs

This is an occasional blog with tips and notes for amateur boatbuilders, to help with decisions that must be made before and during a boatbuilding project, as well as after launch. Post content will be quite random, depending on what is on my mind or what questions I am being asked by my builders at the time.

Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Follow the Designer's Plans

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There are many types of personality that get involved in boatbuilding. We each do it for our own reasons. Most are not qualified to design t...
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Thursday, December 28, 2017

Take Care with Epoxy Gluing

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Most people who work with wood will have their own preferences in adhesive types and methods. What I am writing here are my opinions, based ...
Sunday, April 23, 2017

Shaping Dinghy Foils

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This started as a post in the series on building the Argie 15 on Dudley's Blog . It became too long and involved for that blog, so I si...
Monday, November 14, 2016

Finishing Tips for a Good Boat

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Amateur boatbuilders are able to create boats of remarkable quality, sometimes rivaling the finishes and detailing that comes out of the bes...
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More on Torturing Plywood

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Following on my previous post, about bending plywood into boat hull shapes, here are two photos to show what can be done. These photos are f...
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