maggietwo
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hi ,we are looking to rebuild a folk boat about 1970 east german looking for spec sheets on ribs, hull planking this one is clinker planking, deck timber engine,gear box, and mast info. any info will be helpful .
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Poignard
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There used to be a Folkboat Association, based in the Isle of Wight.
If it still exists it's members probably know all there is to know about these beautiful boats.
If it still exists it's members probably know all there is to know about these beautiful boats.
NormanS
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When I built a Folkboat, I got the plans from Svenska Seglar Forbundet (the Swedish Sailing Association). The plans were for a clinker hull, but I built it with edge nailed and glued strip planking. You could contact them.
LONG_KEELER
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Daydream believer
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There is a youtube video of a chap "I bought a folkboat for £1". He did an extensive refurb job. Perhaps you can find the vid & contact him for info
Buck Turgidson
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I believe he came to his senses and bought a Twister
martinaskey
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I owned a similar boat about ten years ago. Mahogany carvel hull with oak floors / ribs. The construction turned out to be edge nailed with extremely robust galvanised nails that had to be sawn through to replace planks. All in reassuringly good condition which is more than can be said for the plank to rib nails. From my research the boats were almost a monocoque structure and originally had ribs at 18" spacing. To the British eye these looked under specified so when these boats were imported to the UK (mine through Glasgow) the number of ribs was doubled to 9" spacing. I installed a Yanmar 1GM10 engine which suited the boat well. The rig I got with the boat was masthead (very heavy mast) - she was wildly over canvased which was great in light airs but lead to exciting times unless you reefed very early. If I'd had a choice I'd probably have replaced that with an original fractional arrangement. I replaced all the keel bolts (3/4" galvanvised) and found that somewhere in it's histroy someone had used threaded bar for some of them - worth checking !
Hope that helps, enjoy your project - they are great boats.
Martin
Hope that helps, enjoy your project - they are great boats.
Martin
scotty123
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Try these guys - Folkboats UK
jamie N
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Behave!!I believe he came to his senses and bought a Twister
The reputation that these boats have is well earnt. In the size range that they occupy, everything else is compared to them for good reason. The ribs on mine are about 9" as well. She's from the Eikboom yard in Rostock, East Germany but is carvel, not clinker. Traditionally the decks are canvas sheathed plywood. My mast is the fractional rig, and superbly balanced even allowing for the very large rudder. The engine is pretty much what ever you want to put in there in the >10hp single pot range. I've swapped engine's a couple of times (I'm in the middle of it now actually), and it's relatively simple as there's access from my cabin and cockpit, with the cockpit floor removed.
What engine do you have?
Of interest to you might be the book "The Folkboat Story", by Dieter Loibner; ISBN 978-1-57409-274-5.
The book does have loads of 'stuff' about them, albeit there's a great deal about racing.
