Purely awesome, and a really impressive amount of dedication! Seems like the best thread of the year so far.
The Wooden Boat Thread (picture heavy)
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Damn, now I really want to build a boat.Comment
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This is amazing.www.classicdaily.net
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Beautiful craftsmanship! I love wooden boats, especially sailboats.sigpic
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This is awesome. I hope you don't mind if I contribute with some pics later of a boat I will helping doing a bottom job on after I get out of class. Hopefully I can snap some pics.Comment
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love it, something about the natural color of wood is so sexy.sigpic
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Nice documentation! I'm an industrial designer and a good chunk of my career has been in furniture. Some of the products I designed use some of those boat building techniques. I am not very good at it, but I understand the techniques and processes. It's a shame this is becoming a lost art.
I remember touring a shipbuilding school near Washington DC about 12-13 years ago. Only wooden boats, it was amazing!'88 325is
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Those are sweet! You should throw them up on the carpentry thread. I am sure the guys there will dig them as well.sigpic
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All right. A few updates, and new boats. First the Davis boat. This is an Alaskan stile fishing boat. It was already mostly finished by last years class and just needed a few more planks.
We finished the planking, caulked the seams with cotton, and Thursday we brushed some thinned down paint into the cotton filled seems to seal the cotton. Next it needs some more faring and sanding, and then I think it will get a spartan interior and white paint.
Putting the planks on a boat is probably the most challenging part of the actual building proses. Lots of angles and twists and fitting and steaming and so on.
Here is a fun GoPro video featuring my hairy arms, my buddy Randy, and showing the proses of fasting a steamed plank to the side of the boat.
Next up is the White Hall. We are building this boat and two larger version (large craft class gets to do those) for the BBC/Discovery Chanel. They will be doing a TV recreation of the 1869 Powell Geographic Expedition during which John Wesley Powell made a three-month river trip down the Green and Colorado rivers that included the first known passage through the Grand Canyon.
Our boat is the smaller of the three at 16'. The two larger boats are 22'. The boats will have a storage compartment at each end and a cockpit in the middle. The two larger boats will be made mostly of east coast white oak. Our small White Hall has a white oak substructure but will be planked with more forgiving wood as the twists and bends along its body happen more quickly and are more severe.
Sadly I havent had much of a chance to do anything on this boat yet.
Here are two pictures of the larger two White Halls.
And last but not least my buddy Paul and I built a 19' steam box to fit the 17' planks that will need to be steam bent onto the White Hall. Hot rod flames :firehop: ! lol
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