On 9/15/2012 10:49 AM, JustWait wrote:
On 9/14/2012 10:00 AM, JustWait wrote:
So, it's been over ten years since we could have a nice discussion about
"crappy little boats"... so...

If you could build one small boat in your back yard, what would it be?
What material, and where would you use it, why, etc.....???

Scotty, from Rottedboats.com


Don't know why my reader is trying to send to the posters, but here is
my version of a cartopper...


Here is my version...
http://smallboats.com/images/current...ter_05_400.jpg

Weighs about 80 pounds, ten feet long.

If you don't do the fancy seats, this boat can be built with less than
25 shaped wooden parts. One year I had a girl, a HS senior who was going
to MIT for College and needed a cool senior project. She didn't have any
experience so she couldn't really build from scratch, but I cut out the
25 or so pieces and gave her them to build like a jigsaw puzzle with her
dad... The only part I had to help with was the Gunnels, I had to bring
a bunch of clamps in for her to finish the job...