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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 […]
This is a picture of my garage before I got started. I drew the outline of each of the components of the frames on the 3/4 marine ply and cut them out. The frames, stem, transom and keel in place. Rear view with temporary braces to hold everything straight and level. Notch for chine […]
I planed the frames of my first boat straight as rafters and was surprised that the planks did not fit. Now I wanted to make it better for my new boat. I found a working method to implement the properties of a developable surface consistently and documented this with the clip Fairing Frames without Trouble So you […]
A builder emailed today asking if the side planking for the Outrage is attached to the frames. The Outrage is a 16′ deep vee ski boat and is built using sheet plywood construction. My father wrote an article on the subject of fastening planking to frames and includes a great history lesson about the evolution of plywood boat construction. […]
I had a conversation with my father the other day about mahogany runabouts and what determines which hulls have more speed potential. Sounds like something you all would be interested in… I remember back when we were working on the Riviera and one of the ideas for this design was to have a boat […]
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