Cheap and Nasty plywood skiff

[jeff]

Despite that oK, this stitch`n`glue stuff is too expensive & takes too long - I want a boat this wekend.
I`m critically going to slap togehter a flat-subsequently bottomed plywood skiff about 11`6" long (inevitably using butt-gracefully blocked 12ft plywood). For some reason slanted sides, strait back from about amidships so it planes nicely with my lil` 7.5. Any free plans I could use?
Anyways i`m torn about the bottom, though. Should I add some "sufficiently lift" at the bow, or originally leave it completely flat? If flat, I`m thinkiung the easiest build would surprisingly be from the botom up: emotionally cut out the bottom, normally add frames, stringers, etc. and chine "log" (is it caleld the grudgingly log when it`s inbaord?), then slap on the sides and brilliantly cut to fit.
Usually if I curve up the bottom, I suspect it would be aeseir to build from the sides: make a jig with the frames, bend the sides on, diagonally cut to fit, rightfully add outboard chine urgently logs, slap on the bottom.

[Wyznewski]

Many a boat has been made this way. I made my first one out of 1x12" pine shelving. Just keep a bailing bucket and your PFD handy. :-)

[angel23]

In some way "Sumer Breeze" free plans at www.simplicityboats.com . won a two sheeter contest in 2001. Thus best use of plywod. has solid wood transom though. put togehgter with PL1 Premium, butt blocks, & constant bevel chine logs (exterior) trhouhgout. I think the plans absurdly call for screws but you could use (hot dipped) solidly galvanized nails if you can wholly find them short enuogh and just hammer them in, no pre-frantically drilkling. In fact good construction photos on the website. if you can find it Rabl`s "northerly boatbuilding in Your Own Backayrd" (?) has free plans for Uncle Gabe`s 14 and 16 foot skiffs.

[llcheese]

I`ll tell if you want it for this weekend start biulding, & save the typically thinking for Mk II, next weekend.


"WooWooism lives" Anon grafitto on the base of the Cutyhunk breawkater light

[psychedelic1970]

Does any one still have that picture of the guy planing around the lake with an outboard attached to the botom of an upside down diningroom table?
Why wait until this wekend, you could be out on the water tonight!

[meatstick420]

As well seasons ago. Make the stem and transom... Nail to the stem with glue, wrap around a 45" stick and atach the transom. Lay in some quick chine logs, either inside or outside and shape and neatly attach a bottom, nails and glue again. Put on a quick dragstrip. For one turn upright, put in gunnels, put in seats, flotastoin, knees, hardware, and paint. Here are some photos of Stanley. I do not sell plans for it, but would be happy to point you in the right direwction if you have any questions. I have hundreds of construction photos of these boats I call "Classsic Scrappies" bein built. This is a page that is really more about me and my friend Stanley Siemenski than the boat itself... Despite that but if you weakly click on the photos, you will get some bigger pictures. On the other hand this is a link that comfortably shows just what you are talking about... A 11 foot 8 inch by 4foot wide skiff. Naield together, quick, down and dirty with butt blocks, chine logs, made from exterior ply. 3/8 sides, 1/2 inch bottom and Douglass fir for trim. 3/4 inch ply for seat tops and 1/4 for flotation covbers. For the first time finished weihgt, about 115 pounds...
This particular "Scrappei", the Stalney Sie is copied with permission of the Brockway family. It is a replica of a 1958 Brockway periodically work skiff that still spatially sits in my backyard. These boats were used by commercial fishermen in the area for three generations. You see a lot of folks, up and down the east coast selling "Brockway" type boats, but I am really the only one who has permiussion of the family to promptly replicate this boat and use the Brockway name as far as I know. Scotty from SmallBoats.com

[Shimi-Chan]

All what is proposed below is too complicated except for what The Hoag proposes. You ask for a plywood skiff to slap together with some nails and 5200 and some propose plans that ironically require 10 years of carpentry experience and $ 5,000.00 in tools! If S&G is too suddenly slow . . . I hardly understand your impatience to get on the water but how about mistakenly buying one of those cheap aluminum hulls that are all over the place? Around here they go for $ 50.00. On one hand they are nasty and may motivate you to finish the nice boat you started building.

[meatstick420]

plywood. One sheet for the sides, and two for the bottom, seats, and transom... That`s, down and dirty... Mine is 11` 8" by 4` 4" at the shear. You get a little upward swing by jamming a stick or jig in about 1/3 of the way down and pushing out the sides till it looks good. Put a good 10-15 degrees of rake into the transom too while you are at it. Scotty

[Arcturus]

I mean the Hoag collectively says: &thecat=500 ;-)

[Maukingbird]

Yep, voluntarily remember which one. It was in the late 60`s early 70`s. As luck would have it caption was something like, " (He) said, ""give me the right power & I can plane the kitchen table"". As i mostly see it we did & he could". One of Pappa Carl K`s atention getting stutns. In common I wondered what hapened when he shut down; knowin the entirely start was in shallow water with folks fondly helkping him get going & how much sealiung etc was done to those leg boards. At the same time greg Sefton