Easy sailboat plans?
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With the basic knowledge of hammer, saw, and screwdriver you can make your own boat. If you are serious and going for real results this plan will put you on the right course! Do you want to go out on the lake in the summer? You can be setting sail in just a couple of weeks if you start today! !
Finished hull – stitch and tape rocks!
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Quick post here, just me sharing the end-result of the wooden boat hull. Go check out a technique called stitch and tap, I believe it truly rocks it is easy and gives you very quick results. The technique has been around for a while and used for crafts of various types and sizes – canoes, dinghies, sailboats and well motorboats even in excess of 40′.
Your sailboat plan should have the exact shape and size of the hull panels. You mark and cut out the panels and then you create the basic form by by just connecting the pieces with metal wire. Okay, that may be a bit to simple – you have to keep an eye on the symmetry and you take some plywood to get a sort of temporary frame but gives the hull its basic shape. So at first don’t make the metal wire connection to tight. You want to be able to play around with it so you can tweak it a bit to get the symmetry just right.
The metal wire stitched seams are then finished with a tape and epoxy resin. Be careful with the epoxy, I found out myself that when it comes in contact with your skin you can get some pretty strong alergic reactions. You fill up the seams and so create a water tight seal between the hull panels.
And then to end with in the 2nd picture the outside of the hull. Any remarks or questions on my sailboat plan, let me know in the comments!
read comments (0)First stage wooden boat hull
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So check out the picture! Starting to look like a boat there I’d say, okay before going in the water I may want to look into finishing the other half too but we’re getting there 
Now when I first had the plan to make my own sailboat the thing I was mostly wondering about was the hull, what sort of mathematician do you need to be to get all those pieces to fit together.
First stage constructing hull wooden sailboat
With most sailboat plans you’ll find that the designer already took care of that for you. You’ll take a plywood board of specified size and just follow the instructions measuring distances from the side. I should probably make a quick sketch about what I mean. It is quite like a paper boat plan although this one is a bit easy it sort of is the same idea – it took me some time to wrap my head around it and I did a scale model from paper myself actually just to get a feeling how all the piece come together to make the hull. I would definitely recommend you first do a model too so when you start to saw you are sure what you are doing – it is very easy to screw up and end up with a mirror image of what you were looking for 
As you can see, my sailboat plan has started and if I do say so myself it is looking good.
Let me know what you think!
Ready, set…. go sailboat plans!
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Just wanting to check-in and let you know the blog is not dead. I have also some things to report on – I have made my trip to the lumber yard and took the first steps in constructing the hull but I am getting ahead of myself I’ll get back on that in the next post or two.
Let me get back to my first post. I was at that time still going with the idea I would be able to start soon but when going over the sailboat plan I purchased online there was boat-jargon that had me grabbing a dictionary like I was a foreigner. I figured some more preparation would be good since the world was looking over my shoulder with this blog
So having done quite a bit of reading over the summer (you don’t have to feel sorry for me I made sure to take some R&R too) I now feel I am ready to get rolling.
As you may have noticed, the blog has moved over to a new server. The folks at Hostgator have hooked me up with a shiny new install of WordPress and all seems to be working beautifully.
I am also checking out some other parts of WordPress and there are loads of free themes so you can probably expect a new design for the blog soon also.
Speak soon.
Sailboat plans
> Posted by Admin in sailboat plans
A couple of weeks back me and my wife were visiting some friends. With their son being out on the lake at their house with a small sailboat we started talking. They made the boat themselves with plans they purchased online. That is how I started with the idea to get some sailboat plans and build one myself.
Ever since I was a kid I have been totally in love with sailing. Back then mostly in regards to racing but now there is no better way to relax then to go out on the lake with a boat and do nothing.
In addition to the pleasure sailing affords as recreational activty, it involves also some interesting physics. Sailing starts offcourse with the force of the wind on the sails. Analyzing that interaction of that yields some results not commonly known to non-sailors. It turns out, for example, that downwind is not the fastest direction for sailing. You can probably find a lot of resources about the physics of sailing but this further will go about my sailboat plans.
That’s indeed the case – I have plans to build my own sailboat. If you search the internet there are a lot of sites talking about wooden boat plans or skiffs or any other sort of boat plans but I didn’t find very much information on sailboat plans so far.
With my trip to the local bookstore I had some more luck and will be reading up on how to go about this. I will report on my progress with my plans to build my own sailboat. As I understand it should be possible to complete in a couple of weeks
There are a series of options to build the boat – one can make it the conventional way just using wood or a polyester hull but that doesn’t really breath the style of the sailboat I’m looking for.
I have also learned that there is a new technique where you can seal a wooden hull using a transparent component. I’ll be looking for more detailed plans on this new method as it sounds very promising.
Time for a coffee and I’ll talk to you later.