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Stitch and glue is a simple boat building method which uses plywood, epoxy glue, and “stitches” and eliminates the need for stems and chines. Plywood panels are cut to detailed profiles and stitched together to form an accurate hull shape, without the need for forms or special tools. This technique is also called “tack and tape”,...
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Boats can age too. Maintain your boat’s fitness and don’t let it wreck your retirement By Ear to the Ground – From the Washington State Department of Natural Resources website The love affair between people and their watercraft is legendary. Thousands regularly bring their vessels to the shores of Puget Sound and the lakes of...
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In the third world, much of the cooking is done around open, wood fires. We shantyboaters, living as we do in a third world of our own, can benefit from recent innovations in stove technology. Their workings are high tech, but their construction is low tech (or appropriate, if you prefer). One of...
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There’s a story over on DuckworksMagazine.com about a fellow who is building a little tugboat, Gil. To me he seems to be doing a pretty nice job of it. But.. To make this story simple, once he built the frames of his boat, he used the plan dimensions and marked and cut the hull...
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From YouTube: “http://klaus.silbernagl.com/pub/bootsbau/ A styrofoam steambox is quickly built, stabel on bench and extremely heat insulating and therefore less energy consuming.” Originally posted 2011-09-11 23:55:23. Bryan LoweThe author of this post is also the editor of ShantyboatLiving.com. He has built several boats including the Escargot pictured at left. Note: Join in the shantyboat community...
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Now this is clever. How do you fair frames and chine logs in order to get the hull panels to fit? Watch, learn, use. In English… and in German http://klaus.silbernagl.com/pub/bootsbau/workshop/#scheitel Originally posted 2011-12-19 09:57:27. Bryan LoweThe author of this post is also the editor of ShantyboatLiving.com. He has built several boats including...
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Biscuits fer Breakfast! Bake them biscuits, Baby,Bake 'em nice and brown.When you get them biscuits bakedWe're Alaskanny bound!Local variant of Pig in a PenI must have used up my slim tolerance for exactitude in boatbuilding. I sure don't seem to...
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If we're gonna be up a creek, we'd best have a paddle!(Not sure of provenance, but found this image here)In a recent post, A Stitch in Time, I wrote of TEOTWAWKI (The End Of The World As We Know IT), and concluded with a list of skills and stuff to hav...
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Drawings from AprovechoCheap energy ain't so cheap, anymore.A friend, who suffered from arthritis and heated with wood, once told me, "I want the best return in BTUs on calories invested." Mmm. There's a deep thought!It's become much more common, recen...
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Barge/Scow Bottom Planking – Making It So Setting up the Jig It laughs at the sea, that bow does; it challenges the sea; it snorts defiance at the sea. And withal it is a beautiful bow; the lines of it are dreamlike; I doubt if ever a boat was blessed with a more...
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