Julie K has a New Suit

[SketchUp Guru]

I just thought I'd post a picture my bride took of the sailboat I built. This year she got a new suit of sails and I like the way they look. Please pardon the wrinkles. There are a few that need to be ironed out.

 

[CHJ]

I just thought I'd post a picture my bride took of the sailboat I built. This year she got a new suit of sails and I like the way they look. Please pardon the wrinkles. There are a few that need to be ironed out.

Could see a few possibilities for mischief with the phrasing of that paragraph (without picture) but that is probably just the result of 45+ years of living with my bride.

Hope there is not too much rivalry between the two loves of your life,
the one in the picture looks great by the way.

 

[Neil]

Looks fantastic, Dave - do you have any more details on the build?

Please pardon the wrinkles

They are just go faster stripes, aren't they? :wink:

Cheers,
Neil

 

[Steve Maskery]

That looks wonderful Dave. Do you have any more pics? I've sat in a canoe and taken the ferry to Gothenburg, but not tried anything in between. Looks very peaceful.

Cheers
Steve

 

[syntec4]

Wow Dave thats lovely. Is it trailered, or do you leave it on a mooring? Please ,Please send us some more pictures.

Cheers
Lee.

 

[Newbie_Neil]

Hi Dave

Wonderful, I am impressed.

Cheers
Neil

 

[SketchUp Guru]

Thank you all for the kind comments. Here are a few more images. Most are from last year or before.

This is the same weekend but a year earlier. The first weekend in June we have a "messabout', a gathering of mostly homebuilt boats. It's a great time to meet other builders and to see other boats. She looks a bit sad sitting in the rain like that.

This was on launch day in 2003.

Last year at the my wife's family's lake place in northwestern Minnesota.

Here she is on her trailer. You can see all the keel she's got. There's no centerboard and no ballast but she's extremely stable and well behaved.

Last year was a first for a couple of things including a roller furler for the jib. The way it was rigged though made it tough to get her to tack. This year she tacks very nicely because the tib has been moved back a bit.

As far as the build, it's a plywood monocooque hull with only three bulkheads. The bottom is 1/2" the hull and cabin sides are 1/4" and the deck and cabin roof are 3/8". Like most builders of this design, there are plenty of modificatins from the plans. I went with a squared off cabin front instead of a rounded one, the mast is 3' taller and the bow sprit is about 18" longer. The boom is raised about 14" from what the plans called for so that the boom goes easily over my head instead of through it.

I think the initial build from start to launch took about 9 months of working time but it was over the course of three years due to periods of forced inactivity.

This boat, called a Weekender from http://stevproj.com was designed so that someone with just a few power tools and little woodworking experience. It's also a good boat to do some cosmetic mods to and it's over designed to be safe for inexperienced sailors. The designers wanted a sailboat that could be inexpensive and quick to build so that more people could get out and sail. Production boats of similar size cost considerably more than one of these to build.

Thanks again for the nice words.

Dave

 

[gidon]

Looks great Dave. And nice pics. Any pics of the construction?
That URL doesn't seem to work by the way.
Cheers
Gidon

 

[SketchUp Guru]

Thanks Gidon. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures on the computer of the build. I'll look at home and see if I can find some. Let's see if this link works. http://www.stevproj.com Evidently the site is down or something.

 

[dedee]

Wot no SU drawings? :lol: :wink:

That's a nice looking boat. I'm struggling with the scale. It looks much bigger when there is nobody in it.

Andy

 

[mahking51]

DaveR
Nice boat, just a hint of Herreschoff I feel... very pretty!
Martin

 

[SketchUp Guru]

Deedee, How's this?

Actually this model is drawn closer to the plans than I built the real boat.

This is the steering mechanism I built for it.

And thank you to you and to Martin.

 

[Alf]

Dave, Julie K's new suit is lovely indeed; sets off her hull colour just beautifully. I suppose one of these days I may scratch that boat-building itch I have, but in the meantime this ain't helping! :lol:

Cheers, Alf

 

[SketchUp Guru]

Alf, thank you. I think you'd better start scratching. I could see you doing something like this:

It is an Iain Oughtred design. He has done some wonderful boats. Lives on the Isle of Skye.

 

[Alf]

Dave, you're a Bad Man... [-X :lol: That's a tiny bit reminiscent of the local Falmouth Bass Boat, for which I've long held a soft spot.

Cheers, Alf

 

[SketchUp Guru]

That looks like a neat boat, too. I like the shape of it.

You know building a boat could be the ultimate neander experience. There's all the rabbets and bevels and gains to cut.