Phil Bolger designed a lot of sectional boats, including the title
craft in his book, The Folding Schooner and Other Adventures in Boat
Design. I once (back when I was trying to make a meager living
building wooden boats) quoted on building a fifty foot Bolger design
that came apart into three pieces for highway travel. The prospective
owner finally decided it was a big toy and not a good use of money.
He was probably right (in that size) but a smaller folding boat can be
a nice thing. Bolger has a good reputation for well thought out,
often unconventional, easy to build designs.

http://www.hallman.org/bolger/

Dave Gerr has a design for a folding dinghy in his book, The Nature of
Boats. It's eleven feet long but could easily be expanded. I looked
hard at building one of these for our circumnav, but ended up with a
conventional 12' whitehall style boat. I don't like his hardware -- I
think it's expensive and fussy -- there are easier ways to do the job.

http://www.gerrmarine.com/index.html

Jim Woodward
www.mvFintry.com

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On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 22:24:36 -0500, "Wayne" wrote:
the "chameleon" dinghy by danny green, c/o offshore designs ltd.,
p.o.box ge213, st.george's, bermuda ge bx. it is a brillant design,
we built one and have seen rowed three others in various states of
finish. check our boat building skills out at wwwsailorgirl.com
I don't see the whole thread of this message so this may have been discussed
but take a look at the FB11 in the small boats secton of www.bateau.com .
k.t.h wrote:

Hi, due to space and access dificulties I'm trying to find information
on
building a sectional, bolt together, boat.

SNIP
I'm thinking of something like a 14 foot dinghy built in two sections
but an
open canoe or anything is ok, I don't intend use in heavy seas but being
confident it will hold together in a bit of chop would be nice. Primary
use
is with small 2-3hp outboard but easy rowing would be nice.