On Apr 12, 12:39*am, I_am_Tosk
wrote:
In article , Lil Abner
says...



Anyone constructed their own small boat recently?
When I was a teenager My Cousins and I built a small 20 ft boat out of
cedar planks. Didn't know such things as marine plywood.
One Cousin still had the boat 15 years ago. Haven't seen him or it in
that long.
It was heavy. I don't remember the name of the little motor right off.
What new materials are available to build a small two man boat, for
fresh water these days?
I haven't done anything with hand tools in 40 years.
I know it won't be the latest and greatest but it will be built by me,
hopefully to be used by yet to be born Grand kids on farm ponds and
creeks etc.

You can look at my website,http://www.smallboats.com*and if you see anything there you are
interested in, let me know. All of the boats depicted there can be built
with standard hand tools by anyone with basic high school woodshop class
behind them. For you without knowing a bit more about what you are going
to use the boat for and what kind of water you will be in, I might
suggest you start he

http://smallboats.com/stanley_sie.htm

The "Scrappies" are mostly built from Framing lumber from Lowes, and
Marine plywood. If you wish you can do fiberglass over the seams and
bottom (even a rookie) with minimal effort and expense too. As to Plans
I don't sell plans for the Stanley but if you are interested in building
one, I can help you out. There are also plenty of free and otherwise
inexpensive plans and instruction manuals out there too...

Good luck. If you need more attention you can email me at



and I can address more direct questions about distributors and materials
and such...

Scotty from Smallboats.com (retired

--
Rowdy Mouse Racing - We race for cheese!

Tosk, those are some good lookin boats. If I used em, they'd never
stay looking that good.