A Nice Attempt in Wood...

With all due respect, this boat features, in great abundance, the homemade look I was referring to in another thread last week.

The boxy look is a tip-off to unfinished business in the aesthetic design department.

(I know it's hard to develop compound curves in a home build design.)

Joe. :teeth :thup
 
The neat thing about is the forward door to the front cockpit. A very nice feature for handling lines and anchor. Our first cruiser a Nimble Nomad had this feature and was fun to have in calm conditions. A few times in heavy seas I was concerned about the open bow. The scuppers were small and too slow to drain a big wave.
 
Chivita":cy3mks6j said:
Looks like a Glen-L designed home built. I know someone that built that same boat and was very happy with it.
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Chivita-

Nothing wrong with a Glen-L homebuilt project!

Lots have been built, and plywood is the medium for which the design was intended, where simple, one dimensional curves are the rule.

Of course, boats can be boxy and still very sound and well engineered, but with the advent of fiberglass, the attendent molding process, and some professional level development and thinking, compound curves need not be excluded.

Indeed, if designing a commercial product, the naval architect, or someone else designing a boat, can hope to create something esthetically pleasing as well as sea worthy.

I had a very dear personal friend who was an artist who claimed that while almost all building architects were sound engineers by their training, only about 10% of them were artistically capable of creating something truly beautiful.

The same can be said of naaval architects, I think.

Good thing the C-Dory originator(s) had the artist's eye in their skill set!

Joe. :teeth :thup
 
Q: Can a home built wooden boat such as this last for any reason amount of time cruising in salt water? I actually like the simple homebuilt look (I also like the CD's) but would be afraid the life span of this boat would be about 5 years.
 
MilesandMiles":1rgjob2a said:
Q: Can a home built wooden boat such as this last for any reason amount of time cruising in salt water? I actually like the simple homebuilt look (I also like the CD's) but would be afraid the life span of this boat would be about 5 years.
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A: Many wooden boats are coated with epoxy resin for protection...

http://www.diy-wood-boat.com/Epoxy_resin.html

Additionally, one can put fiberglass cloth over the wood, fare it, and paint. A friend of mine has a wooden sailboat built this way about 10 years ago, and it still looks good. Some other wooden parts on the boat that were varnished but not epoxy coated did have to be replaced.

Hope that helps.

Jim
 
One thing that might help the appearance and functionality of the boat being discussed is to:
1) inset the bottom of the cabin walls from the gunnels sufficient to allow transit from bow to stern w/o entering the cabin. The resulting space inside the cabin would make good storage.
2)taper the sides of the cabin to more easily allow the above mentioned while conveying a greater sence of strength and stability.

In addition to making the boat more pleasing to the eye this reduction in the center of gravity and in the center of bouyancy would help produce a more comfortable ride.
CV
 
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