Re: strip building

There was a good article in the July/August 1990 issue of Boatbuilder
called Scantling Rules for Sheathed-Strip Construction. It sets out
the factors for picking your glass or carbon, and wood scantlings.
There is a related publication here:

http://www.macnaughtongroup.com/scantlinsheathed.htm

If you have the scantlings right, request the free Gougeon issue of
Epoxyworks, for technique, and have accurately lofted plans, you
should be fine.

Right. Those early Friendship sloops made from scarphed up factory offcuts used no
sheathing. I haven't got Rabl's book here but think he'd go either way, as you like.

Once good quality wood strips get molded 3/4" or so, they aren't required to have the
glass for structural reasons anymore, and abrasion becomes less a factor.

Mark
proaconstrictor wrote:

> There are strip built boats which are not glassed and in the modern
> day many that are. If we are talking about the latter, then this
> probably isn't the route. Did Rabl use glass? Glass/strip
> construction goes back to the fifties (at least), so I don't know.
> Wooden Boat had an article on a strip planked boat of the non glass
> type.
>
> Try:
>
> Cold-Molded and Strip-Planked Wood Boatbuilding
> by Ian Nicolson
>
> You can sample pages over on Amazon
>
>
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I took an opportunitiy to look around on-line. There is a long of
canoe, kayak, and rowboat info such as here:
http://www.newfound.com/,but not too many larger stip projects.

Here are a couple links to a multihull strip builder:
http://www.multihullboatbuilder.com/workshop/TedWarrenWRCStripPlanking
.html
http://www.warrenmultihulls.com/

See also Richard Wood's opinion in the faq at
http://www.sailingcatamarans.com/.

There are issues about covering the stips: using cloth or veneer or
nothing, and if the cloth is structural or not. See
http://www.boatbuildercentral.com/help/sheathed.htm.

You could take a look at Maddog MacBride's Albatross project. This is
sheathed strip boat, I believe. He used ply for the stips.
http://www.nauticalfollies.com/

Peter

--- In bolger@y..., Mark Albanese <marka@h...> wrote:

> Sam Rabl liked stripbuilt boats. His _Boatbuilding in Your Own

Backyard_ has a chapter

> with the essentials and shows at least a couple of plans with all

the details.

>
> Mark
>

There are strip built boats which are not glassed and in the modern
day many that are. If we are talking about the latter, then this
probably isn't the route. Did Rabl use glass? Glass/strip
construction goes back to the fifties (at least), so I don't know.
Wooden Boat had an article on a strip planked boat of the non glass
type.

Try:

Cold-Molded and Strip-Planked Wood Boatbuilding
by Ian Nicolson

You can sample pages over on Amazon

The book titled something like "Rip, Strip and Row" leads you through
building a boat a bit bigger than a canoe: the Cosine Wherry.

http://www.boat-links.com/DepoeBay/99/BoatFest-1.html

On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 23:27:41 -0000, Matthew wrote:
> While I'm on the subject, what's the best book or other resource for
> strip building a boat? I know it's often used for canoes, but I am
> interested in something bigger.

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Sam Rabl liked stripbuilt boats. His _Boatbuilding in Your Own Backyard_ has a chapter
with the essentials and shows at least a couple of plans with all the details.

Mark

"Harry W. James" wrote:

>
> Look up strip canoe building at your library.
>
> HJ
>
> pvanderwaart wrote:
> >
> > > While I'm on the subject, what's the best book or other resource
> > for
> > > strip building a boat?
> >
> > I don't really know. Perhaps Robert Steward's Boatbuilding Manual.
> >
>
>
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Look up strip canoe building at your library.

HJ

pvanderwaart wrote:

>
> > While I'm on the subject, what's the best book or other resource
> for
> > strip building a boat?
>
> I don't really know. Perhaps Robert Steward's Boatbuilding Manual.
>

> While I'm on the subject, what's the best book or other resource

for

> strip building a boat?

I don't really know. Perhaps Robert Steward's Boatbuilding Manual.

--- In bolger@y..., "owlnmole" <owlnmole@y...> wrote:

> While I'm on the subject, what's the best book or other resource

for

> strip building a boat? I know it's often used for canoes, but I am
> interested in something bigger.
>
> Regards,
>
> Matthew

For the bigger stuff the Baltec Duracore book is pretty good. Using
these special strips is different, but it is a pretty cutting edge
book. A lot of the advanced tech is in plan sets of designer who are
using this stuff so you should get anything you need there.

Ruel Parker has a book that covers this stuff, but it usualy ends up
with double diagonal planking.

The big advances are female molds new fabric, special penetrating
epoxies and cad/cam programs that make the whole thing easy. There
are also specialized strips with bead and cove, and contoured
profiles.

While I'm on the subject, what's the best book or other resource for
strip building a boat? I know it's often used for canoes, but I am
interested in something bigger.

Regards,

Matthew