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A chine in a boat is the backing member of the side and bottom planking and is typical on a hard chine hull, meaning an abrupt angle change from bottom to side, not a radius or round shape. In other words, the chine is the usual longitudinal backing typical on vee bottom boats. The backing […]
I recently received a question from a gentleman who built our Glen-L Tiny Titan 8-foot hydroplane. He was experiencing what he thought was too much spray coming over the sides, and therefore decided to modify the design of Tiny Titan by adding strips of 1 ½-inch wide aluminum along the outside bottoms of both sponsons. […]
Marine plywood is more rot resistant than regular exterior plywood. False. The difference is primarily in the quality of the inner veneers. Marine plywood does not contain the voids that always exist in exterior grade plywood. Cheap plywood can be made into marine grade by coating with epoxy. False. The difference between exterior grades and marine grade […]
Getting the small dinghy or skiff over dry land to the water is quite a task. It’s not so bad with two, but working alone can be a chore. In the following we’ll describe and illustrate a wheeled device that attaches to the transom to enable a single person to move a sailboat or outboard […]
Converting an automobile motor to a viable marine engine has been going on for years. Although, going back in memory, many of these conversions were disasters waiting to happen. Very early conversions simply amounted to lifting the motor with transmission from the car and slapping it in a boat. Several things were quickly learned. The exhaust […]
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