Boat Builder Central

Buz, If you get your FB11 in the water I'll have to drive over to gunterssville with mine.

After one season we had two annoying issues: 1) on the little lake running the rudder into the bottom about 8-10 feet short of the shore. 2) when you have more than one person in the boat sailing the tiller is too long. So this winter I made a new tiller, what I'm calling a Chesapeake Bay rudder and...

Launched her last year but didn't post any pictures so here are a few Took a while to get the sail rigged so that it could be trimmed property but keep forgetting to have someone take pictures after I sorted it out.

So LPU over LPU is good, LPU over epoxy is good but epoxy over LPU is bad. So I should do as follows: 1) mask off the parts I want to finish as bright work 2) prime the parts that will get they system 3 LPU 3) apply the system 3 LPU 4) remove masking and apply the cleare polyurethane on the bright w...

So I got my joint fixed, for my rub rail on, skeg on and about all I have left is to get it faired and painted, And mount my hardwere. The question I have now is on order of operations for finishing. I was thinking of doing the seats, and gunnels bright with clear polyurethane I have the system 3 wr...

Thanks I'll give it a shot. I'm guessing that my problem stems from the bulkheads being warped or not having a consistent gap when I bonded them in.

So I cut it in half sanded the edges back to the bulkhead, taped the joint and went to fit the two parts back together and now I have a huge almost 3/8" gap. It's tight in the center of the bottom and on the edges but gaps in between. http://gallery.bateau2.com/albums/userpics/88646/normal_imag...

I got all of the stiffeners and cleats in. Also bonded in the transom gussets and the mast support. I'll be cutting her in half soon.
Then foam and dagger board and I'll be ready to fair, prime and paint.

For the hard wood on the boat I am using Sassafras from a local small volume mill. It's harder and denser than poplar but not as dense as Oak with a good strength to weight ratio, is bug and rot resistant, and was relatively knot free all at $3.50 bdft. On top of all that It smells marvelous! He onl...

Thanks it's been fun. Having gotten as far as I did I think it was worth noting that the layout on the plans is not to scale. I was able to cut all of the parts required for the motor and sail options out of the 3 sheets including my larger forward " seat" that is now a foredeck. So when I...