I wanna build a boat
 

I want it to be a 37 foot Junk rigged Sailing Dory

It will be plywood and epoxy, and built to liveabord and sail.

It will be built to a Jay Benford design ....

Any thoughts?

steveb

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What have you built before? This is not something to be taken lightly.
How many people are going to work with you on this?

steveb wrote:

I want it to be a 37 foot Junk rigged Sailing Dory

It will be plywood and epoxy, and built to liveabord and sail.

It will be built to a Jay Benford design ....

Any thoughts?

steveb

I wanna build a boat
 

Hewel lifted the trapdoor, peered around and
wrote:

What have you built before? This is not something to be taken lightly.
How many people are going to work with you on this?

A few, at times when they are needed ... fear of getting it wrong is quite
likely to hone my skills.

I will get a marine surveyor to check as I go along. I don't actually take
it lightly :)

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steveb wrote in message . ..
Hewel lifted the trapdoor, peered around and
wrote:

What have you built before? This is not something to be taken lightly.
How many people are going to work with you on this?

A few, at times when they are needed ... fear of getting it wrong is quite
likely to hone my skills.

I will get a marine surveyor to check as I go along. I don't actually take
it lightly :)

Well just build it, stop moaning. (steve)

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I wanna build a boat
 

steveb wrote in message . ..
(Steve) lifted the trapdoor, peered around and wrote:

Well just build it, stop moaning.

moaning?

Well, what is step two?

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steveb ) writes:
I want it to be a 37 foot Junk rigged Sailing Dory

It will be plywood and epoxy, and built to liveabord and sail.

It will be built to a Jay Benford design ....

Any thoughts?

depends on what you mean by "dory".
a simple banks dory shape isn't good for sailing.
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Yes,I always wondered about this J. Benford dory design.
It has been said that a banks type dory is not good for sailing.
I wonder if that means that it is slow or that it isn't as fast
as a catamaran or..what?
The Benford design is advertised with a book about a couple who
built one and sailed to Antarctica. Annie Hill I think. Have not read this.
Joshua Slocum built and sailed LIBERDADE from S. America to the east
coast. The boat was modeled from his "recollections of Cape Ann Dories".
For simplicity of building, a dory seems a great advantage. Never sailed
one though.
SteveJ



William R. Watt wrote:
steveb ) writes:

I want it to be a 37 foot Junk rigged Sailing Dory

It will be plywood and epoxy, and built to liveabord and sail.

It will be built to a Jay Benford design ....

Any thoughts?


depends on what you mean by "dory".
a simple banks dory shape isn't good for sailing.
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Jay Benford dory-
http://www.atomic.net/~gklimber/dory.htm

steveJ wrote:
Yes,I always wondered about this J. Benford dory design.
It has been said that a banks type dory is not good for sailing.
I wonder if that means that it is slow or that it isn't as fast
as a catamaran or..what?
The Benford design is advertised with a book about a couple who
built one and sailed to Antarctica. Annie Hill I think. Have not read
this. Joshua Slocum built and sailed LIBERDADE from S. America to the
east
coast. The boat was modeled from his "recollections of Cape Ann
Dories".
For simplicity of building, a dory seems a great advantage. Never
sailed
one though.
SteveJ



William R. Watt wrote:
steveb ) writes:

I want it to be a 37 foot Junk rigged Sailing Dory

It will be plywood and epoxy, and built to liveabord and sail.

It will be built to a Jay Benford design ....

Any thoughts?


depends on what you mean by "dory".
a simple banks dory shape isn't good for sailing.
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steveJ ) writes:
Yes,I always wondered about this J. Benford dory design.
It has been said that a banks type dory is not good for sailing.
I wonder if that means that it is slow or that it isn't as fast
as a catamaran or..what?

from what I've read, because there is no beam aft and there is exaggerated
curvature in the sides, when the boat heels it rounds up and develops
terrific weather helm.


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