ChattingLil
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...or done a complete fit out from scratch? With or without professional assistance.
Looking for a friendly forumite to discuss the above with.
Looking for a friendly forumite to discuss the above with.
anywhere here built their own boat ...?
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sailorman
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2 from moulding`s in my garden 19` & 26`
2 from moulding`s in a friend`s garden helping him, Nantucket Clipper & an SS 34
probably 18 whilst at Offshore Yachts as a team of 2 & 3
rustybarge
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Hi Lil,
I've built my own steel boat from scratch. It's a 60' by 13' barge. Enjoyed every minute of it, but it is a awful lot of work. The material costs are very very low if you cut up all the steelwork yourself. My philosophy was either get a boat built for you, or make absolutely every thing yourself; there's nothing inbetween, because if you buy in any ready made stuff the costs escalate out if hand.
So make the windows, the hatches, the cleats, the engine bearers....etc etc.
Here's a great site to give you a taste of sea going steel motor vessels, there's also a sailing section.
http://www.dieselducks.com/
What sort if boat are you considering?
ChattingLil
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good news. Are you going to the fitting up supper? Would like to pick your brains and get some advice.
Interesting! We are in no way competent to do such work ourselves. I will pm you later.
in general - as some of you know, me and Marc are now looking for a liveaboard with a view to going off in several years time. So we are in no hurry to have a blue water standard boat ready right now as we have time to get that right. But we are looking for something that's big enough for us to live on and that has the bones of what we need. Money is tight though, so we are also considering 'projects'. Need to take the advice of the best beloved ECF sages.
nortonmotors
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Yes, I planned, doodled and sketched for four years and spent the next two years of 3-day weekends filling a ginormous grp bathtub with iroko, marine ply, bronze screws, and, and,......
Apart from the spars and sails, all my own work. Would I do it again? A resounding YES. But, could I do it again? Not on that scale now, I don't have the energy.View attachment 29835View attachment 29836
I found it hard physical work, but satisfying to solve 'challenges' along the way.
When the hull moulding was delivered, my only thought was "What the f**k have I done?" And when she floated for the first time "How the f**k did I do that?"
How can I help you?
Apart from the spars and sails, all my own work. Would I do it again? A resounding YES. But, could I do it again? Not on that scale now, I don't have the energy.View attachment 29835View attachment 29836
I found it hard physical work, but satisfying to solve 'challenges' along the way.
When the hull moulding was delivered, my only thought was "What the f**k have I done?" And when she floated for the first time "How the f**k did I do that?"
How can I help you?
ChattingLil
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thanks, will pm.
nigelm
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Yes
My Pegasus 700 , built from new mouldings in 1992 , lifting "wing keel " only 2 were built and used as a show boat by Pegasus yachts at the last boat held at Burnham yacht harbour .
Countess 28 ongoing - you know the story .
My Pegasus 700 , built from new mouldings in 1992 , lifting "wing keel " only 2 were built and used as a show boat by Pegasus yachts at the last boat held at Burnham yacht harbour .
Countess 28 ongoing - you know the story .
Talulah
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Roberts 34 from scratch. First year was making a male mould for the hull.
2nd year was the hull.
3rd was led into keel. Floor supports. Bulkheads. Deck
4th year - more internal fit out, engine.
5th year - mast from kit, other fittings etc and then finally launch.
2nd year was the hull.
3rd was led into keel. Floor supports. Bulkheads. Deck
4th year - more internal fit out, engine.
5th year - mast from kit, other fittings etc and then finally launch.
Gitane
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Built a 17 foot Gunter? rigged sailing dinghy from plywood, sail from poly tarp. Built it about 10 years ago and sailed it for about 4 to 5 years before buying a proper sailboat.
Dinghy sadly rotted away over time, but I still have the rudder and sail.
Gitane
Dinghy sadly rotted away over time, but I still have the rudder and sail.
Gitane
Gargleblaster
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Wow I looked at the dieselducks site as I remember seeing a large steel vessel with a drooping forestay furler in Shelter Bay Marina, Panama in May 2011 bearing that name [I used to own a plastic boat called the Disco Duck, so the name sticks]. I hadn't realised it had gone around the Horn in 2009. I was under the impression that it was owned by a Canadian couple.
rustybarge
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Hi glayva,
I very nearly built a diesel Duck design, but I wanted to keep the boat on the Shannon river and the draft was too deep. They really look like proper sea going boats, and pretty too.
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Gargleblaster
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
rustybarge
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Ok,.....beautiful in a functional sort if way, and only to the naval architect, or someone who actually gave birth to one, on a dark night!
