Re: Clam Skiff Streach
If you take the side plank meaurements and use them as "stations",
you can re-space them to make a 24' boat with the same beam etc;. For
example, I stretched "June Bug" by usung the same plank widths, but
on 14.5" centers to make a 16' boat. I also straightened it aft of
mid length and widened by 3". The latter by simply adding 1.5" to
either side if the centerline, giving it a "bow-transom" about 4"
wide. I took all of this and built a 1/8 scale (1.5"=12") model. It
looks pretty good,although it's now home to three of wife's Beanie-
Babies. The idea was to have a cartop-able "Work-Skiff 15". Now if I
could only talk wife into letting me use the living-room of our
apartment as a boat-shop...
Bruce
you can re-space them to make a 24' boat with the same beam etc;. For
example, I stretched "June Bug" by usung the same plank widths, but
on 14.5" centers to make a 16' boat. I also straightened it aft of
mid length and widened by 3". The latter by simply adding 1.5" to
either side if the centerline, giving it a "bow-transom" about 4"
wide. I took all of this and built a 1/8 scale (1.5"=12") model. It
looks pretty good,although it's now home to three of wife's Beanie-
Babies. The idea was to have a cartop-able "Work-Skiff 15". Now if I
could only talk wife into letting me use the living-room of our
apartment as a boat-shop...
Bruce
--- In bolger@y..., Gronicle <Gronicle@c...> wrote:
> Didn't someone on the group mention that it is possible to streach
the
> length on the clam skiff from 18' to up to 24' without messing with
the
> other demensions. I keep revisiting this design (mentally) for a
> possible project.
>
> Now a buddy of mine in Bay Saint Louis, MS is looking for a hull
for a
> one man clam tonging, shrimp dragging machine, and I am trying to
> convince him that a Big Diablo probably ain't the boat to go
tonging on.
>
> Anyway, what do you guys think of the pros and cons of streaching
the
> length on a clammer up to 24'? Reasonable idea or dumb ass thing to
> consider? Please advise.
>
> Regards, Bubba K.
> From the Coastal Empire of Georgia
Didn't someone on the group mention that it is possible to streach the
length on the clam skiff from 18' to up to 24' without messing with the
other demensions. I keep revisiting this design (mentally) for a
possible project.
Now a buddy of mine in Bay Saint Louis, MS is looking for a hull for a
one man clam tonging, shrimp dragging machine, and I am trying to
convince him that a Big Diablo probably ain't the boat to go tonging on.
Anyway, what do you guys think of the pros and cons of streaching the
length on a clammer up to 24'? Reasonable idea or dumb ass thing to
consider? Please advise.
Regards, Bubba K.
From the Coastal Empire of Georgia
length on the clam skiff from 18' to up to 24' without messing with the
other demensions. I keep revisiting this design (mentally) for a
possible project.
Now a buddy of mine in Bay Saint Louis, MS is looking for a hull for a
one man clam tonging, shrimp dragging machine, and I am trying to
convince him that a Big Diablo probably ain't the boat to go tonging on.
Anyway, what do you guys think of the pros and cons of streaching the
length on a clammer up to 24'? Reasonable idea or dumb ass thing to
consider? Please advise.
Regards, Bubba K.
From the Coastal Empire of Georgia