Boat Builder Central

It looks beautiful all that is missing for launching are the windows. Keep going and start Your cruising time next spring.

Hi, I love your feather pram already and cannot wait to see progress pictures. I have one question : Will you be using epoxy wood flour glue at the lap connections and where they meet transom and bow only and no epoxy coating on the 4 mm Okoume planks just oil ? It interests me because I built child...

Hi Richard, I have seen it before but never so well documented from scratch. You know I build a grab bar for my FS13 which looks ugly as sin. But this post of You made me decide what to do this coming Winter and hopefully I can get near your perfect grab bar. I will give it even a separate name to t...

As you want a trailerable boat what about this : You look down south for a suitable boat and trailer it to Alaska. Good testing for trailering or am I an idiot and know nothing of the Panamerican Highway except the name and it does not even reach as far as Alaska.

Hi, Yes the rudder modification will be a great help as I fiddled on the wabbly water for minutes until I had it hung, now it takes 10 seconds. It is a pity that such small detail is not mentioned on the boat plans and you only find out whilst using the boat. This is a picture of the changed Gudgeon...

Hi, Today I installed my outboard motor bracket which I bought 4 months ago. It had to swallow my pride to drill 4 holes into my lily white transom which I never wanted to have any holes. But this stainless steel bracket is a big improvement on my self made concoction which was just tied with lines ...

Hi, At last I can post again about my sailboat. I was busy this whole summer making 2 beds and 2 carry cots for my new grandchildren Rosa and Joseph who are 5 weeks today already and now it is time for me to turn to my sailboat again. I built a 3 metre long extension bar for the trailer for slipping...

Thank you Hank I appreciate your advise and if I build it I definitely will leave the hulls empty. I think I was really waiting for such an answer because I doubted my foam idea right from the start.

Hi, It takes me quite a while to dress the mast after I arrived at the lake and therefore my question. Can I trailer the boat with the mast dressed and the lines taped to it at 1 metre intervals and the ends of it stashed away in a secured bag in the cockpit ? http://gallery.bateau2.com/albums/userp...

Hi, Do you think it is a good idea after epoxying the inside of the 2 hulls to fill them with foam before gluing on the decks so they are sealed completely and definitely unsinkable or would this add too much weight and it is overkill for such a small sailboat ? Here a picture of one of the hulls ou...