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Backyard Renegade
 
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Default Flatbottom Dory: Speed, seaworthy?

(Backyard Renegade) wrote in message
Go with the 14 footer. Make it 6.5 to 7 feet wide in the center and 6
inches narrower in the transom. Cut a couple of pieces of 1/4 inch


CORRECTION: For a 14 footer I would use 3/8 marine or 1/2 inch ext.
for sides and 3/4 inch marine or ext. for bottom...

plywood and lay them lengthwise, tack em' down. On one end draw a
point 20 inches up and put a nail in with 1/2 inch left visible. Go to
the other end, come in two feet (for a 14 footer) and put a nail 28
inches up in a similar fashion. Connect the two nails and lay a line.
Cut out your side panels and butt joint them together, cut back wider
ends (bow) 30 degrees and the stern say, 10-15 degrees. Take a four
foot 4x4 and knock off two chunks at 30 degrees and make a stem.
Scotty