Dnia Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:38:47 +0200, Steve Lusardi napisał(a):

I'm afraid you have missed the point. (...) do
not start this project unless you have the resources, dedication and
personal discipline to complete it. (etc., etc.)

Good advice is always appreciated. Thank you.


Peter

--
*** no offence meant, no offence taken ***

Peter, don't let all these naysayers discourage you from the direction
you're heading. Iain Oughtred's designs and the boats built from them are
very highly respected in the professional boat building community. His and
similar boats built from high-quality thin plywood with glued laps can be
damned fine boats. For another designer's take on it, look for example at
Tom Hill's superlights, which he's been building for tens of years. He has a
little beauty of a one-man canoe that he used to show off in his WoodenBoat
magazine ads by holding it over his head on the fingers of one hand.

Back issues of WoodenBoat magazine have copious commentary on the techique,
comparing it to solid wood construction and giving it high marks. Glued-lap
construction results in an essentially monocoque structure, giving
equivalent strength without requiring the quantity of framing that
conventional solid wood lapstrake construction requires, and resulting in
less wood movement as the boat takes on and loses moisture.

That's not to say that it's superior in all respects - some people just like
building in solid wood, and prefer the aesthetics. If I were to take on a
similar project, I'd probably eschew glued-lap plywood in favor of something
like Alaskan yellow cedar over locust frames, just because it's such a
lovely wood to work with hand tools and I like the color and grain. And I
just like riveting, what can I say. And as someone else said here, just a
tiny bead of sealant in the laps easily makes up for less than
perfectly-planed laps. But if I chose an Iain Oughtred design - and one or
two of them have sorely tempted me - I'd use his preferred construction
style.

Up here in Port Townsend, Washington, you almost can't walk down the
sidewalk without having to elbow a wooden boat builder out of the way. If
you polled them about glued-lap plywood in small boats, I'm willing to bet
that just about all of them past the apprentice phase of their careers would
say, "Sure, why not? Works fine."

I'm a long-time wooden boat owner myself (41', carvel planked of teak over
ipol frames), and I've also built a conventional lapstrake Herreshoff pram,
planked with Port Orford cedar, so I'm clearly in the solid wood
construction arena with my own boats, but I wouldn't hesitate to take on a
glued-lap plywood small boat if the right design came along. And maybe
someday it will.

To the naysayers, a good friend of mine, a boat builder himself among a vast
number of other marine skills - you'd recognize his name if you followed
traditional sail - says "There are only three 'only right ways' to do
anything."

Good luck finding a builder in your region,

Tom Dacon

To you others on this thread - how many small boats have you built? Come on
now, 'fess up.



"Akita" wrote in message
...
Dnia Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:38:47 +0200, Steve Lusardi napisal(a):

I'm afraid you have missed the point. (...) do
not start this project unless you have the resources, dedication and
personal discipline to complete it. (etc., etc.)

Good advice is always appreciated. Thank you.


Peter

--
*** no offence meant, no offence taken ***

Dnia Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:25:58 -0700, Tom Dacon napisał(a):

Peter, don't let all these naysayers discourage you from the direction
you're heading. Iain Oughtred's designs and the boats built from them
are very highly respected in the professional boat building community.
His and similar boats built from high-quality thin plywood with glued
laps can be damned fine boats.

Tom,

I will write the rule of "three 'only right ways'" over my desk. Well put
indeed. :-)

Being rather new here, and non-native English speaker, I just avoid
confrontations instead of crossing swords with anybody. Somehow against
my temperament, but very helpful. By no means it means I am getting
discouraged just because of couple sentences.

As for the boat, I did a bit of homework and AFAIK Ness Yawl is a good
boat for my needs. One more thing to clarify: I am not going to build her
with my own hands. There are already three professional builders who made
their bids to me. They have built quite interesting boats before, like a
transatlantic kayak (wood + epoxy + kevlar) or a wooden whalers' dory
that will be cruising Patagonia soon. And none of them had any problem
with the plywood - so for me the issue is settled.

As the plan is to sail my boat around Ionian Sea, I hoped that posting
here my question would trigger some answers from the area closer to Corfu
than Poland (my current place). 1500 km boat transfer by car will be
rather expensive, but well, you can't have everything. :-)

The building is scheduled roughly for February and I will certainly let
you gentlemen know how it goes.

Cheers,

Peter

--
*** no offence meant, no offence taken ***

"Tom Dacon" wrote in message
diainc...
Peter, don't let all these naysayers discourage you from the direction
you're heading.
To the naysayers, a good friend of mine, a boat builder himself among a
vast number of other marine skills - you'd recognize his name if you
followed traditional sail - says "There are only three 'only right ways'
to do anything."

Good luck finding a builder in your region,

Tom Dacon

To you others on this thread - how many small boats have you built? Come
on now, 'fess up.

Hello Tom,
Port Towsend, eh? Close enough to be a neighbour.

....Ken www.classictender.com



"Akita" wrote in message
...
Dnia Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:38:47 +0200, Steve Lusardi napisal(a):

I'm afraid you have missed the point. (...) do
not start this project unless you have the resources, dedication and
personal discipline to complete it. (etc., etc.)

Good advice is always appreciated. Thank you.


Peter

--
*** no offence meant, no offence taken ***

"Island Teak" wrote in message
news:1qP7k.26311$Jx.7414@pd7urf1no...

Hello Tom,
Port Towsend, eh? Close enough to be a neighbour.

www.classictender.com

Nice, Ken - very nice indeed. Do you ever come down to the Port Townsend
Wooden Boat Festival? You ought to think about bringing a couple of those
little sweeties down here and showing them.

Tom

On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:38:47 +0200, "Steve Lusardi"
wrote:

There is no such thing as a cheap boat and
building is NOT the least expensive route to floating a boat. That position
is held by those people that buy other peoples boats that are sold in
desperation.

I have a 22 foot alum cuddy with a 175 Mercruiser 4 that cost me two
grand. Came with a depth finder and a pair of skiis. A trailer, of
course.

Casady

On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:57:40 -0700, "Tom Dacon"
wrote:


"Island Teak" wrote in message
news:1qP7k.26311$Jx.7414@pd7urf1no...

Hello Tom,
Port Towsend, eh? Close enough to be a neighbour.

www.classictender.com

Nice, Ken - very nice indeed. Do you ever come down to the Port Townsend
Wooden Boat Festival? You ought to think about bringing a couple of those
little sweeties down here and showing them.

Tom

Hi Tom,

I have all but closed this business. They simply take too long to build
....especially with all those people who believe that 'plywood' is acceptable
;-)

When is the Port Townsend festival ? Always wanted to go. Might bring
down some large teak timbers.

regards...Ken

"Tom Dacon" wrote in message
diainc...

"Island Teak" wrote in message
news:1qP7k.26311$Jx.7414@pd7urf1no...

Hello Tom,
Port Towsend, eh? Close enough to be a neighbour.

www.classictender.com

Nice, Ken - very nice indeed. Do you ever come down to the Port Townsend
Wooden Boat Festival? You ought to think about bringing a couple of those
little sweeties down here and showing them.

Tom

The wooden boat festival this year is September 5th through the 7th - I
think it's typically the second weekend in September. Here's a link to the
web site of the Wooden Boat Foundation, which puts it on:
http://www.woodenboat.org/

If you brought down some teak to sell and didn't want to take back what
doesn't sell, Jim Farris ("Kiwi") at Edensaw - http://www.edensaw.com -
would probably give you a good price for it. He'd be your competition, but I
don't think that he actually keeps much big teak around, certainly nothing
over 12/4. But he's got some hellacious big bubinga and other exotics like
that.

I can sympathize with you about trying to build like you do and make what
you need to make on such a labor-intensive product. It's too bad. You'll
see, for instance, a new build of a Haven 12 1/2 selling for $25,000. I
guess there must be at least a few people who can pay that for a small open
daysailer but they don't come around and knock on your door very often.


Tom


"Island Teak" wrote in message
news:2A98k.49347$gc5.11983@pd7urf2no...

Hi Tom,

I have all but closed this business. They simply take too long to build
...especially with all those people who believe that 'plywood' is
acceptable ;-)

When is the Port Townsend festival ? Always wanted to go. Might bring
down some large teak timbers.

regards...Ken

"Tom Dacon" wrote in message
diainc...

"Island Teak" wrote in message
news:1qP7k.26311$Jx.7414@pd7urf1no...

Hello Tom,
Port Towsend, eh? Close enough to be a neighbour.

www.classictender.com

Nice, Ken - very nice indeed. Do you ever come down to the Port Townsend
Wooden Boat Festival? You ought to think about bringing a couple of those
little sweeties down here and showing them.

Tom