Building pics with kayak and boat

Friday, March 9, 2012 (boat, building, kayak), 5 comments

A couple of really nice projects. The kayak is a Hunter, nicely built by Bruce Webb i North Carolina – almost finished and with launchings photos coming soon.

The little sailboat below is a gaff rigged Sharpie 600, by Bernard Goffin in Belgium. A beautiful job! In the pics you can see the initial puzzle of plywood pieces that form the hull, deck, and cabin, the mast tabernacle, the turning of the hull (nice to have a hull that can be handled by two!) and the primed hull – that after some more sanding will be apple green with a cream white deck (yummy...)

On Bernard's sajt you will find a lot of pics from the construction process.

 The little boat is a quite simple build. A number of precut plywood panels with slots are pushed together like a large 3-d puzzle, forming the hull, deck, cabin, bunks, pantry, centerboard trunk, cockpit etc. This backbone structure is then covered with plywood bottom, sides, deck, cabin top, bunk tops, seats etc – everything glued together to form a strong, simple and light monocoque hull. Two rig alternatives: gaff yawl or two-masted lugger.