Rum_Pirate
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Spirit Eagle
One sheet of ply
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Rum_Pirate
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Plan by Herb McLeod
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rustybarge
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That looks like a very similar design to the Cowes Punt from CB a few years ago.
I built one, my B in law built one, and a friend built 3 for a 'workshop' project for intellectually challenged kids.
Unfortunately mine ended up at the bottom of St Cassien lake in France, got stolen and sunk. :ambivalence:
I built one, my B in law built one, and a friend built 3 for a 'workshop' project for intellectually challenged kids.
Unfortunately mine ended up at the bottom of St Cassien lake in France, got stolen and sunk. :ambivalence:
Rum_Pirate
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After I built mine, the plans were offered free online by Herb MCLeod, two friends built one for their children. One is called 'Sea Brat'.
I then built three more.
One for a friend and two to be raffled off for the Rotary Club.
One was raffled as "A boatload of coke' and the other as a "boatload of beer'.
As prizes they contained cases of Coca Cola and the Brewery (non-alcoholic products if you wished e.g. Ting) respectively, plus oars, and lifejackets.
The Rotary Club raised over £1,500.00.
I then built three more.
One for a friend and two to be raffled off for the Rotary Club.
One was raffled as "A boatload of coke' and the other as a "boatload of beer'.
As prizes they contained cases of Coca Cola and the Brewery (non-alcoholic products if you wished e.g. Ting) respectively, plus oars, and lifejackets.
The Rotary Club raised over £1,500.00.
rustybarge
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ffiill
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Somewhere At the back of a cupboard I have the Hartley's plane for a one sheet pram tender-very similar.
Romeo
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Plan by Herb McLeod
Are you not left with a seat shaped hole in the bottom of your boat?
rustybarge
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JumbleDuck
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I've just received the plans for a Percy Blandford Pete from Clark Craft in the US, Rather prettier than the One Sheet Skiff, I think, and can be done with a single 8 x 4 if you don't mind splicing one side.
http://www.clarkcraft.com/cgi-local...ef2bf078c&type=item&categ=016&item=1037537671
http://www.clarkcraft.com/cgi-local...ef2bf078c&type=item&categ=016&item=1037537671
rustybarge
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Nice.
..but it doesn't have a pointy end.[just kidding: my first boat was a mirror]
Alpha22
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We built 4 with a sea scout group over a weekend. Great fun. We used a 'lightly foaming marine adhesive' from Screwfix to take up any slack left by inaccurate cutting. The adhesive turned out to stick to everything and nothing in the world would remove it. The kids were covered in it, all our power tools were covered in it...... I still have nightmares.
We built one with a re-enforced cored transom and ran it with twin seagulls..... LOL
We built one with a re-enforced cored transom and ran it with twin seagulls..... LOL
rustybarge
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Rum_Pirate
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I omitted the seat as it seemed to raise the Centre of Gravity too high.
JumbleDuck
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True, but my yacht has two pointy ends, so it would all average out fine.
rustybarge
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..aah, but the 'Percy' plan is a double ender as well, but with no pointy ends.
I'll stop now!
ThreeSummers
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This is me taking my OSD "Mouseboat" for it's first paddle. (Edit: my server seems a bit slow so image takes a little while to load).
Tim.
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VicS
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Heres my offering. 2 sheets of ply IIRC and a few offcuts of hardwood.
co256
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I believe the original idea of the Optimist dinghy was that it could be built from a single sheet of ply?!
rustybarge
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VicS
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Very pretty, white hull, varnished wood and hemp rope.
right about the white paint and the varnish but wrong about the rope. No idea what it is, nylon maybe, just something I stumbled upon in a dark corner at work.
