Whats the most basic pram dinghy DIY project

[bluey01]

Inspired by the brilliant recent Duck Punt thread I thought I might have ago of building a small tender, very very basic design required to suit my very very basic DIY skills.

Only requirements are its car topable and can be rowed and cheap material cost. (before anyone sayes it - no plastercine not appropriate material!)

Any thoughts?

 

[Lakesailor]

There are loads of sites on the internet that deal with home-builds of small dinghies. Try Googling "two sheet dinghy". (uses two 8x4 sheets of ply)

 

[sailorman]

Inspired by the brilliant recent Duck Punt thread I thought I might have ago of building a small tender, very very basic design required to suit my very very basic DIY skills.

Only requirements are its car topable and can be rowed and cheap material cost. (before anyone sayes it - no plastercine not appropriate material!)

Any thoughts?

Jack Holt did a design mebe 7` long stitch n glue, it is very light. Called the Shrimp i think

 

[VicS]

A couple of sheets of ply and a few hardwood off-cuts produced my dinghy.

Inspired by one of Jack Holts designs ... Jack Sprat IIRC. I dont remember a "Shrimp".

Assembled by the familiar "stitch and glue" method .. using nylon mono-filament fishing line rather than copper wires.

Light enough to lift onto a car roof rack single handed or pick up and carry on ones shoulders.

Now 33 years old so not done so bad.

....

 

[sailorman]

A couple of sheets of ply and a few hardwood off-cuts produced my dinghy.

Inspired by one of Jack Holts designs ... Jack Sprat IIRC. I dont remember a "Shrimp".

Assembled by the familiar "stitch and glue" method .. using nylon mono-filament fishing line rather than copper wires.

Light enough to lift onto a car roof rack single handed or pick up and carry on ones shoulders.

Now 33 years old so not done so bad.

....

close to shrimp wasnt it
i took patterns off of one & made it

 

[Stemar]

I've had the D4 plans from here lurking in a forgotten corner of my pooter for years, waiting for me to get round to building one.

Now I've got a Jissel and a Mirror, I don't suppose I ever will now, but...

 

[alahol2]

Here are the D5 plans as a free download (pdf)

 

[bluey01]

great advice, I'll have a look into these options, thanks very much

 

[William_H]

Small dinghy

I have built a couple of Sabot dinghies out of plywood. One was made of 3/16 ply and was quite light. %he har dpart was getting the bend into the gunwhales chines and keel. I used it a rowing tender. Very beamy and stable. However being left on the beach didn't do the last one much good and it was replaced by fibreglass then aluminium. olewill