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With the interior carpentry completed, everything was removed so that pieces of plywood could be sent off to the trimmers to be made into real seats and large numbers of ceiling planks varnished. With the insides of the boat once more accessible, flotation foam was installed. In Australia, there is a statutory requirement for flotation […]
With the deck installed and the hull complete, the next steps were to cut out the motor hatch cover and prepare for windscreen building. Through the building process, trying to anticipate long lead time items had always been a factor and it was assumed – correctly – that the windscreen would be one of those […]
Building the Glen-L Yukon by Wayne Milner Editor’s Note: This project, undertaken by a Nova Scotia backyard builder, shows what can be done with a little cash, lots of ambition, and a good-sized backyard. I got past the armchair-to-workshop barrier a long time ago. The Yukon project is my fifth backyard-built boat. After the first one, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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