One man's eight-year effort to build a wooden ship by hand
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rustybarge
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Looks like a beautiful boat, is it what we call a folkboat? He seems to be using strip planking and epoxy, so I'm wondering why it's taken him so long to build it, I would of thought that's only a couple of years work.
IMHO it would be a much better idea to buy an old wooden boat: cheap as chips to buy, most of the hard construction work done and when you come to sell you'll get back the purchase price.
IMHO it would be a much better idea to buy an old wooden boat: cheap as chips to buy, most of the hard construction work done and when you come to sell you'll get back the purchase price.
Grumpybear
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Looks like a beautiful boat, is it what we call a folkboat? He seems to be using strip planking and epoxy, so I'm wondering why it's taken him so long to build it, I would of thought that's only a couple of years work.
IMHO it would be a much better idea to buy an old wooden boat: cheap as chips to buy, most of the hard construction work done and when you come to sell you'll get back the purchase price.
And it would have saved some trees....
Woodlouse
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It's a 42 foot boat. So far bigger than a folk boat and quite an undertaking for one man. Especially if its his first boat and he's learning as he goes. Looks like a nice job though.
chinita
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He is not building it by hand. That is a circular saw he is using. Cheat!!!
Blueboatman
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Rebuild a wooden boat and get your money back.
Well, whatever next? And why sell something that you put your heart, soul ( and a few trees ) into?
I must be out of touch with these things
Well, whatever next? And why sell something that you put your heart, soul ( and a few trees ) into?
I must be out of touch with these things
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rustybarge
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Just like you say, the smilies do not reflect the right emotions, this is meant to indicate sarcasm
sailorman
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Some build boats
others sail boats
not many of the former do the latter
others sail boats
not many of the former do the latter
Just like you say, the smilies do not reflect the right emotions, this is meant to indicate sarcasm
armchairsailor
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Tell that to Iain Oughtred...
sailorman
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Blueboatman
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Or Fabian Bush http://www.fabianbush.com/aboutus
Apologies to RustyBarge for not noticing the humour, we want BIG smilies
Apologies to RustyBarge for not noticing the humour, we want BIG smilies
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maxcampbell
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I sail the boat I built, and the dinghy.
8 yrs ain't bad for a 42 footer. My 20 footer took me 3 years, and that was a kit! This is about 9 times the size, so I'd probably have taken 27 years.
8 yrs ain't bad for a 42 footer. My 20 footer took me 3 years, and that was a kit! This is about 9 times the size, so I'd probably have taken 27 years.
sailorman
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saltylegs
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its a nice feeling when she hits the water with no leaks. mine was only 17.5 feet and took me 4 winters from a set of drawings, I have also almost rebuilt a couple of boats but never the same feeling as doing it all yoursef so a lot of respect for someone putting in that amout of effort.
dylanwinter
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Seagreen
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Looks like a beautiful boat, is it what we call a folkboat? He seems to be using strip planking and epoxy, so I'm wondering why it's taken him so long to build it, I would of thought that's only a couple of years work.
IMHO it would be a much better idea to buy an old wooden boat: cheap as chips to buy, most of the hard construction work done and when you come to sell you'll get back the purchase price.
Oh I wish. Thats a parallel universe I've yet to visit.
However, the design looks straight out of Howard Chappelle, or Herreshoff. Beautiful.
dylanwinter
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Seagreen
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ffiill
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Twenty or so years ago there was a beautiful boat moored and for sale at Skipool on the River Wyre-built by a cabinet maker with splined planking.
A perfection in hardwood!
A perfection in hardwood!
Seven Spades
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This is a really good illustration of the differences between the UK and US economies. Firstly no one here could afford to own their own warehouse/boat shed in which to construct a 42' boat and give up five years of their life to do it without working, the rates alone wold keep you in full time employment. I think it is so sad that the upfront costs of being in business here in the UK mean that so many marginal businesses simply cannot exist, we can no longer afford to allow vocational businesses to exist.
