folk boat

maggietwo said:
how would we convert a english built folk boat into a east german folk boat with a higher coach roof
Click to expand...
By buying a German folkboat!.....or cut the top off the cabin and carefully add on cabin sides with spliced in corner posts and intermediate uprights to strengthen your additional height,the joints have to be well made not just relying on bodging with epoxy,quite an undertaking!.....then you have new carins and deck beams and deck
 
1590860253700.png
They're great. I'm 5'10 and can stand up at the aft end of the cabin. They're very well built and would make you (probably) very happy.
However, there were quite a number of different builders of English Folkboat's I believe, so the number of coachroof options would be variable too.
I recently saw an example of someone changing the 'lines' to give more headroom, and it looked awful!
I'm not sure if there are plans available still were you going to convert. Good luck.
 
Away back in the 60's I built a Folkboat. I was in a low shed, and even with digging a trench in the floor for the keel, I could only build a low coach roof, with no raised doghouse. Though I say it myself, she looked good, but I would so much have preferred the higher coach roof with the raised doghouse. I think they achieved useful headroom by having an extreme camber, which looked better than high sides. If you're a competent woodworker, go for it.
 
NormanS said:
Away back in the 60's I built a Folkboat. I was in a low shed, and even with digging a trench in the floor for the keel, I could only build a low coach roof, with no raised doghouse. Though I say it myself, she looked good, but I would so much have preferred the higher coach roof with the raised doghouse. I think they achieved useful headroom by having an extreme camber, which looked better than high sides. If you're a competent woodworker, go for it.
Click to expand...
What happened to her Norman?
 
Sandro said:
Norman, I would like very much to know how did you pull the boat out of the shed.
Sandro
Click to expand...

I may have given you the wrong impression. I dug a hole in the floor, and using jacks and cranked girders, lowered the boat down, so as to have enough headroom to construct the coach roof. Once the boat was complete, I jacked her up again, built a trolley under her, and at that stage, the top of the coach roof was just clear of the flat roof of the shed. Later, I altered the shed by cutting off the flat roof, and fitting a pitched roof, which gave much more headroom.
 
Thank you, OK, I did not think that you want working headroom also over the boat. Silly of me.
I was supposing lengthening the trench till outside the door, haha.
Sandro
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Share this page

Top