Might be a good idea to put some non-stick plastic on the caravan's room
before you slather on that fiberglas and epoxy.

It's such a bummer trying to turn a caravan upside down to launch a boat
stuck to the roof. (g)

"Robert Haston" wrote in message
ink.net...
Another reason to mount the boat upside down is you can make it streamline
with your car. You could build a boat that matches your caravan's finish
and follows your roofline like a van conversion.

Use the van to shape the gunnels, either as a model to carve out foam
shapes, or as a plug to mold the gunnels directly in fiberglass.


"wemfish" wemfish AT tiscali.co.uk wrote in message
...
Hi All,
I am planning to build a small sail boat to take on holiday and other
family
trips when we also take our caravan so it has to be light enough to "car
top" a cross section as below..

l l
l l
\ /
\ ______________________ /

a flat bottom ( for the roof bars) and about 10' to 12' max length
would
be
perfect. Does anyone have a link to a free plan close to my needs or
have
one they can e-mail me so I can then adapt it to my needs.
watch out for the spam trap if e-mailing me direct!!

"auerbach" wrote in message . com...
Might be a good idea to put some non-stick plastic on the caravan's room
before you slather on that fiberglas and epoxy.

Yeah but William won't need non stick tape, he uses polyester already!
Just teasing William...
Scotty


It's such a bummer trying to turn a caravan upside down to launch a boat
stuck to the roof. (g)

"Robert Haston" wrote in message
ink.net...
Another reason to mount the boat upside down is you can make it streamline
with your car. You could build a boat that matches your caravan's finish
and follows your roofline like a van conversion.

Use the van to shape the gunnels, either as a model to carve out foam
shapes, or as a plug to mold the gunnels directly in fiberglass.


"wemfish" wemfish AT tiscali.co.uk wrote in message
...
Hi All,
I am planning to build a small sail boat to take on holiday and other
family
trips when we also take our caravan so it has to be light enough to "car
top" a cross section as below..

l l
l l
\ /
\ ______________________ /

a flat bottom ( for the roof bars) and about 10' to 12' max length
would
be
perfect. Does anyone have a link to a free plan close to my needs or
have
one they can e-mail me so I can then adapt it to my needs.
watch out for the spam trap if e-mailing me direct!!

Backyard Renegade ) writes:
"auerbach" wrote in message . com...
Might be a good idea to put some non-stick plastic on the caravan's room
before you slather on that fiberglas and epoxy.

Yeah but William won't need non stick tape, he uses polyester already!
Just teasing William...

sorry if this comes as a shock, but polyester sticks to vans as well as
boats. it's used in auto body repair. I've seen some old vans polyester would
definitely stick to, mostly the kind of vans driven by boatbuilders.


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