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First Steps in Building Your Boat: Setting up – The foundation for building a boat

On June 3, 2013, in Aluminum Construction, Cold Molded Construction, Designer Articles, Fiberglass Construction, Houseboats, Human Powered, Inboard Powered, Outboard Powered, Plywood Construction, Power Cruisers, Sailboats, Stitch and Glue Construction, Strip Planked Construction, WebLetters, Why Build Your Own Boat?, by Glen L. Witt

A boat, unlike a house or garage, does not have flat areas such as a level foundation with vertical uprights (studs). A boat is curved from most any direction you view it so an artificial foundation must be created. We’ve developed a method of using a “building form” to substitute for the “foundation” in the analogy […]