You inspired me to actually just go and build "an boat" instead of infinitely deciding what kit I was going to build. The hull of my 12' sharpie is complete (She's damn near about as crooked as Congress near the bow since I planed the stem by eye instead of ripping it on a table saw I don't have, so SV Congress will be her name) , and I'm going to be finishing her out tomorrow and monday before I go back to work after my summer vacation. Thank you for inspiring me to chase my dreams. I'll definitely be buying a couple of items from your store to finish her up.
Great video and a sweet little boat. Thanks for a relaxing episode. After watching Leo and Steve build there boats, this takes me back to focusing on my own small boat builds.
She's real pretty . . . . and so's the boat! Just goes to show it doesn't have to be complicated to be fun. We had something similar - would never have dreamt of standing up and spinning her like that! Yours looks like stronger version of our Bolger designed 6' long Tortoise (made from 2 sheets of 4 x 8 plywood - or you can go crazy with another sheet and build the 8' long Brick). When our two girls were tinies they had the Tortoise to go out on the lake by themselves. They couldn't agree on a color so she was red down the portside and yellow along starboard! Had a "yaloh" Japanese oar off the stern instead of a rudder and oars and a mast and sail from and old International Optimist. A leeboard in slats on the outside is a great idea. She was light enough that they could pick her up on their own and they named her Peter Duck after the character in a children's book. When they grew too big for Peter Duck she was flipped over and became the roof of a very smart dog kennel! Sorry for the long post, brought back a lot of memories - they are 37 and 35 years old now - my how the years flowed by! For those who fancy something similar take a look at Puddleduck racing www.pdracer.com/ Looking forward to seeing how your new ship handles under sail.
Build a new boat, get some new “boat handling skills “. Ha ha. If I tried that I’d be getting wet. Nice video. Thanks for documenting the process. I wish I had taken video of my sharpie build. Cheers!!!
This is really awesome! Great Video as always, and can't wait to try building something like this someday. I would really love for you to go over how the lug sail is constructed and where each line goes and how it operates, perhaps that could be a nice video idea?
Dynamite payson warned against the use of todays 3ply 3/8s, said it was junk compared to the 5 ply, very interested in your reports of longevity. Quality video, btw, wonderful little punt too, well done.
Amazing! This was my thought process, starting with admiration for punts (worked on a small aluminum one in my job once), or sampans. And now I have developed and built a simple 7-foot pram/punt very like yours (as a tender) out of lumber-store ply and scraps around my 'shop. Wish I could send photos. From south Australia.
Paused at 11 min: an alternative to using a ratch strap one could the for and aft ends of the boat before putting in the middle member. Then one could gentle spread the center and install the middle member.
If I could give ten thumbs up!! I really enjoy your builds and journeys. Looking forward to the next episode for information on your sailing rig. Will you be posting your measurement drawings? I have built a Puddle Duck Racer and Harvey 8 in the past, both of which are also about eight foot long, and have been considering a third construction.
Your bottom profile matches that of a pdracer almost exactly. Pdracers are beamier at 48", have dead vertical sides with no bend in them. The dail you are using it just about the perfect size for a boat of this size and shape. You'll probably find that you can sail it from the thwart, except that your thwart may be too far forward. My personal boat is a 10 ft scow of my own design. It is 35.5" wide and has straight, vertical sides. Its bottom has a profile curve that is 10" high in the stern and about 8.5" high in the bow. It is primarily a sailboat, but has a seat that can be moved fore or aft. Its purpose is muscle propulsion in the form of a single short sweep. It also keeps my but out oh the bilge water while sailing. It is set just 5" from the bottom.
There's a great old book "Rivers to Run, The Great American Jonboat" by Larry Dabblemont with a similar build process to your boat. I built one of pine and cedar with a plywood bottom in 2001. 14' long. It was heavy, but man it floated in an inch or 2 of water and paddled ozark rivers like a dream. It had chines. It lasted over a decade, and now it holds largemouth and bluegill in my farm pond.
Yes! Traditional ozark Jon boats were not built to last, so it had a good long life for how it was built and used, with common hardware store materials. They lived hard and outside without epoxy or marine ply.
haha. any color you want, as long as its bright red. now. as funny as that was. id have to agree. bright red is the way to go. im not sure why. perhaps ancestors.
Love it, I wanted to build a "Sea pearl" trimaran /folder for runnin up and down ky lake I have a book on building a pirogue with a single sheet of plywood that got read well but never put into action carefull out there my friend the storms come up fast and 6 ft waves can happen immeadiately on that lake Mike
thank you for the video. awesome!!!! I've been wanting to make a boat over a weekend to go duck hunting in. something to easily make and store. i love it! could you please make a 6 or 12 month revisit so others can see the durability? again, thank you for your work.
As a boatbuilder, I’m wondering if you could tell me why nobody builds a modernized scaled down viking longship. Just hypothesizing about boats that could be used for multi-person river trips, and which could accommodate a sail of some sort.
The main reason, if you ask me, is that the faerings are a little bit unbalanced compared to modern boats. (These are the 2-3 person ‘long boats’) they are kind of like a sculling shell, very tipsy, but unlike a shell, they are super difficult to capsize. They also don’t do all that well in choppy conditions due to their long length and low free board, they were really made for conditions in the narrow and deep, mountainous fjords, not flat lakes. Regardless, I want to build one someday.
@@CMDR_Hadionthank you for this great response. I would agree that modern materials and hull plans would lend significant stability to the traditional long-narrow clinker built structure. That said, I would still be planning for a longer, narrower, and lighter design for river travel, even if that design incorporates those improved design concepts which you elude to.
So... that's kind of like asking why nobody builds miniature versions of plywood torpedo boats for leasure vessels... the proportions are kind of insane, hard to keep true... 80ft long and 20ft wide... scaled down to 8 ft is 2 ft wide...what do you build it out if without throwing off the cg? it's not a ptboat anymore it's a fancy looking canoe... which is what a mini viking boat actually is... a lapstrake canoe. Come to think of it... the answer is canoe, a canoe is a mini viking boat, and yes there are people who make sails for them. Some of the sails look weird, some don't. Cheers.
Another close semblance kind of direction to go would be to look up Maine peapods and double enders in the length you're looking for, they're all a compromise in one direction or another, rowing ability, sailing, tracking, building ease vs expertise, etc... one could even say that the fishing dory could've morphed from early canoe's for ease of build and greatly increased hauling capacity...
A wonderful chance to see your effort turn successful. I have a foldable Seahopper "Lighter" made in England, which I sail and row here in Japan (I think it's the only one here). It being roughly the same dimensions as your punt (8'4" x 4'2"), as such, I can look forward to your good advice as you discover the whims of sailing such a craft. Cheers, and thanks so much for this.
So that was, what, three or four 1x12x96 and a single sheet of 3/8 exterior ply? Plus a tube of construction adhesive and a box of suitable screws (stainless or bronze)? A couple lengths of some sort of millwork for the rails, a 2x6 for the skeg, and some scrap 2x4 for the thwart/seat mounts? A gallon of exterior latex primer/paint, maybe as little as a quart of a second color for the seats. Looks to me like this should cost under $200 in materials (ten years ago it would have been half that, but plywood and paint have gone through the roof!) and might take me two weekends (since I have zero experience building wooden boats, though I've built a bunch of balsa model airplanes over the past half century). And then some more for the mast, lug, and boom, material for the sail (and finally getting my old sewing machine fixed) -- the more of your videos I watch, the more I want to build something like this. Then I have to figure out a way to get it to the local lakes...
Awesome build looks even possible for a beginner - I've never been to good with wood working. Curious how much it weighs, always wanted a small pram I could long pole.
Reminds me of the Auray Punt type from Brittany. A fishing boat tender that was good to tow, even in open sea conditions. Plenty of info on the WWW. If the plywood proves too flexible or not durable, you could always cross-plank the bottom, as is trad in E coast US. To get to windward, you could experiment with sailing her 'on her ear' (heeled over), using the chine as a keel, like they do on the West Mersea/ Milgate Duck Punts.
Brilliant! I thought about doing this a little while ago, but thought it would never work. Clearly, it does and would make a great tender for my sailboat and a dinghy for the kids. Superb, where did you find the plans?
This is very inspiring to me! And it also really surprises me, that it is possible to build a floating and leek-proof boat from basically a few planks. I was wondering how you manage to get the boat waterproof? Is it just the glue or did you use any other material to seal the connections in between the various planks you used?
Interested in getting into bost building, and this one looks like something easy to tackle. Do you offer instructions or know of a place where i could find some?
Very pirogue-like, in it's build. I was thinking of making a lightweight pack canoe of 3 mm underlayment and resin. Similar build. Only got to the model stage using veneer.
she should sail pretty nicely with the right sail. The hull shape and construction is similar to a puddle duck or even an optimist which are both very capable sailboats
What do you use as construction adhesive? I was planning a similar build after seeing @TheBoatRambler 's car toppable build. Live in KY also in Logan Co. Looking to practice sailing, but have utility for the waters here with a jon boat style hull and do some fishing in shallow waters. Grew up on Green River and Green River Lake.
Do you have to register that boat where you are i built a sail/row boat and if i just row it im good but put the sails up and it needs registration in AL😅
I've been looking for one i could build myself for a dingy to pull behind my big cruiser ,and i do think this one is it, hope you don't mind if i copy it.
I don't mind at all! Depending on your location and how you use your boat, there may be better designs out there. Just consider that the sides are very low, and I've not yet tried to carry a passenger. There's also no built-in floatation. You can alter my design as you see fit, of course.
These videos really make me think I want to make a VERY small catamaran.
You inspired me to actually just go and build "an boat" instead of infinitely deciding what kit I was going to build. The hull of my 12' sharpie is complete (She's damn near about as crooked as Congress near the bow since I planed the stem by eye instead of ripping it on a table saw I don't have, so SV Congress will be her name) , and I'm going to be finishing her out tomorrow and monday before I go back to work after my summer vacation.
Thank you for inspiring me to chase my dreams. I'll definitely be buying a couple of items from your store to finish her up.
Great video and a sweet little boat. Thanks for a relaxing episode. After watching Leo and Steve build there boats, this takes me back to focusing on my own small boat builds.
A wonderful video! Thanks so much for sharing this.
Best of luck
Awesome build! You are inspiring me to get going on a wooden boat build i want to try. Keep it up!
Nice build ny friend gives a whole new meaning to the phrase up the creek
Love the simplicity of your punt. Look forward to seeing its rig.
Thanks for all the videos. The are simultaneously relaxing to watch and inspiring!
She's real pretty . . . . and so's the boat! Just goes to show it doesn't have to be complicated to be fun. We had something similar - would never have dreamt of standing up and spinning her like that!
Yours looks like stronger version of our Bolger designed 6' long Tortoise (made from 2 sheets of 4 x 8 plywood - or you can go crazy with another sheet and build the 8' long Brick).
When our two girls were tinies they had the Tortoise to go out on the lake by themselves. They couldn't agree on a color so she was red down the portside and yellow along starboard!
Had a "yaloh" Japanese oar off the stern instead of a rudder and oars and a mast and sail from and old International Optimist. A leeboard in slats on the outside is a great idea.
She was light enough that they could pick her up on their own and they named her Peter Duck after the character in a children's book.
When they grew too big for Peter Duck she was flipped over and became the roof of a very smart dog kennel!
Sorry for the long post, brought back a lot of memories - they are 37 and 35 years old now - my how the years flowed by!
For those who fancy something similar take a look at Puddleduck racing www.pdracer.com/
Looking forward to seeing how your new ship handles under sail.
You inspire me, sir. I love your sailing philosophy.
Build a new boat, get some new “boat handling skills “. Ha ha. If I tried that I’d be getting wet. Nice video. Thanks for documenting the process. I wish I had taken video of my sharpie build. Cheers!!!
This is really awesome! Great Video as always, and can't wait to try building something like this someday. I would really love for you to go over how the lug sail is constructed and where each line goes and how it operates, perhaps that could be a nice video idea?
I learned to sail on little opti flatbottoms, they're incredibly fun
That looks, kinda, like an optimist.
It would be hard to find a better small do-it-yourself boat video on RUclips looking forward to the sailing rig
Dynamite payson warned against the use of todays 3ply 3/8s, said it was junk compared to the 5 ply, very interested in your reports of longevity.
Quality video, btw, wonderful little punt too, well done.
I can’t wait to see the rig. Please do a step by step for that as well. Happy Independence Day.
CONGRATS on your build and looking forward seeing it under sail
Amazing! This was my thought process, starting with admiration for punts (worked on a small aluminum one in my job once), or sampans. And now I have developed and built a simple 7-foot pram/punt very like yours (as a tender) out of lumber-store ply and scraps around my 'shop. Wish I could send photos. From south Australia.
Great channel, thanks for sharing the mellow vibes ⛵
Paused at 11 min: an alternative to using a ratch strap one could the for and aft ends of the boat before putting in the middle member. Then one could gentle spread the center and install the middle member.
If I could give ten thumbs up!! I really enjoy your builds and journeys. Looking forward to the next episode for information on your sailing rig.
Will you be posting your measurement drawings? I have built a Puddle Duck Racer and Harvey 8 in the past, both of which are also about eight foot long, and have been considering a third construction.
Your bottom profile matches that of a pdracer almost exactly. Pdracers are beamier at 48", have dead vertical sides with no bend in them.
The dail you are using it just about the perfect size for a boat of this size and shape. You'll probably find that you can sail it from the thwart, except that your thwart may be too far forward.
My personal boat is a 10 ft scow of my own design. It is 35.5" wide and has straight, vertical sides. Its bottom has a profile curve that is 10" high in the stern and about 8.5" high in the bow.
It is primarily a sailboat, but has a seat that can be moved fore or aft. Its purpose is muscle propulsion in the form of a single short sweep. It also keeps my but out oh the bilge water while sailing. It is set just 5" from the bottom.
Love it.
This thing begs for a leg-o-mutton sail. It shares some characteristics of the Puddle Duck Racer which often has that type of sail.
There's a great old book "Rivers to Run, The Great American Jonboat" by Larry Dabblemont with a similar build process to your boat. I built one of pine and cedar with a plywood bottom in 2001. 14' long. It was heavy, but man it floated in an inch or 2 of water and paddled ozark rivers like a dream. It had chines. It lasted over a decade, and now it holds largemouth and bluegill in my farm pond.
What made it die? Not built to last (wood not sealed or whatever), regular old age/abuse or something like improper storage?
Yes! Traditional ozark Jon boats were not built to last, so it had a good long life for how it was built and used, with common hardware store materials. They lived hard and outside without epoxy or marine ply.
a boom bail or a mainsheet hanger might make a decent quality-of-life feature
We used to make the same thing . when we were kids just up the road from you. Cheap build.
haha. any color you want, as long as its bright red.
now. as funny as that was.
id have to agree.
bright red is the way to go.
im not sure why.
perhaps ancestors.
Love it, I wanted to build a "Sea pearl" trimaran /folder for runnin up and down ky lake
I have a book on building a pirogue with a single sheet of plywood that got read well but never put into action
carefull out there my friend the storms come up fast and 6 ft waves can happen immeadiately on that lake
Mike
Can't wait to see more builds from you dude
Really lovely job!❤️
thank you for the video. awesome!!!! I've been wanting to make a boat over a weekend to go duck hunting in. something to easily make and store. i love it! could you please make a 6 or 12 month revisit so others can see the durability? again, thank you for your work.
As a boatbuilder, I’m wondering if you could tell me why nobody builds a modernized scaled down viking longship. Just hypothesizing about boats that could be used for multi-person river trips, and which could accommodate a sail of some sort.
The main reason, if you ask me, is that the faerings are a little bit unbalanced compared to modern boats. (These are the 2-3 person ‘long boats’) they are kind of like a sculling shell, very tipsy, but unlike a shell, they are super difficult to capsize.
They also don’t do all that well in choppy conditions due to their long length and low free board, they were really made for conditions in the narrow and deep, mountainous fjords, not flat lakes.
Regardless, I want to build one someday.
@@CMDR_Hadionthank you for this great response. I would agree that modern materials and hull plans would lend significant stability to the traditional long-narrow clinker built structure. That said, I would still be planning for a longer, narrower, and lighter design for river travel, even if that design incorporates those improved design concepts which you elude to.
Chesapeake Light Craft has a faering plan/kit that always caught my eye.
So... that's kind of like asking why nobody builds miniature versions of plywood torpedo boats for leasure vessels... the proportions are kind of insane, hard to keep true... 80ft long and 20ft wide... scaled down to 8 ft is 2 ft wide...what do you build it out if without throwing off the cg? it's not a ptboat anymore it's a fancy looking canoe... which is what a mini viking boat actually is... a lapstrake canoe. Come to think of it... the answer is canoe, a canoe is a mini viking boat, and yes there are people who make sails for them. Some of the sails look weird, some don't. Cheers.
Another close semblance kind of direction to go would be to look up Maine peapods and double enders in the length you're looking for, they're all a compromise in one direction or another, rowing ability, sailing, tracking, building ease vs expertise, etc... one could even say that the fishing dory could've morphed from early canoe's for ease of build and greatly increased hauling capacity...
A wonderful chance to see your effort turn successful. I have a foldable Seahopper "Lighter" made in England, which I sail and row here in Japan (I think it's the only one here). It being roughly the same dimensions as your punt (8'4" x 4'2"), as such, I can look forward to your good advice as you discover the whims of sailing such a craft. Cheers, and thanks so much for this.
They're a fun little boat, a neighbor had one that they called Suitcase!
So that was, what, three or four 1x12x96 and a single sheet of 3/8 exterior ply? Plus a tube of construction adhesive and a box of suitable screws (stainless or bronze)? A couple lengths of some sort of millwork for the rails, a 2x6 for the skeg, and some scrap 2x4 for the thwart/seat mounts? A gallon of exterior latex primer/paint, maybe as little as a quart of a second color for the seats.
Looks to me like this should cost under $200 in materials (ten years ago it would have been half that, but plywood and paint have gone through the roof!) and might take me two weekends (since I have zero experience building wooden boats, though I've built a bunch of balsa model airplanes over the past half century). And then some more for the mast, lug, and boom, material for the sail (and finally getting my old sewing machine fixed) -- the more of your videos I watch, the more I want to build something like this. Then I have to figure out a way to get it to the local lakes...
Clamp on some wheels and a tow hitch - you got a trailer too!
Awesome build looks even possible for a beginner - I've never been to good with wood working. Curious how much it weighs, always wanted a small pram I could long pole.
Man this is tempting. I was going for a sailing canoe, but this might be nicer.
love it!
Reminds me of the Auray Punt type from Brittany. A fishing boat tender that was good to tow, even in open sea conditions. Plenty of info on the WWW.
If the plywood proves too flexible or not durable, you could always cross-plank the bottom, as is trad in E coast US.
To get to windward, you could experiment with sailing her 'on her ear' (heeled over), using the chine as a keel, like they do on the West Mersea/ Milgate Duck Punts.
Brilliant! I thought about doing this a little while ago, but thought it would never work.
Clearly, it does and would make a great tender for my sailboat and a dinghy for the kids. Superb, where did you find the plans?
I assume you added a sail. Can you share details on mast? Sail and rigging Awesome video. Thanks. Going wood shopping this morning.
can i say anything but the word, nice
This is very inspiring to me! And it also really surprises me, that it is possible to build a floating and leek-proof boat from basically a few planks. I was wondering how you manage to get the boat waterproof? Is it just the glue or did you use any other material to seal the connections in between the various planks you used?
Interested in getting into bost building, and this one looks like something easy to tackle. Do you offer instructions or know of a place where i could find some?
Very pirogue-like, in it's build. I was thinking of making a lightweight pack canoe of 3 mm underlayment and resin. Similar build. Only got to the model stage using veneer.
If i stood on the stern like that the boat would quickly be on the bottom of the lake
she should sail pretty nicely with the right sail. The hull shape and construction is similar to a puddle duck or even an optimist which are both very capable sailboats
Stay tooned - next video man rows the oceans on a piece of plywood ?
What do you use as construction adhesive? I was planning a similar build after seeing @TheBoatRambler 's car toppable build. Live in KY also in Logan Co. Looking to practice sailing, but have utility for the waters here with a jon boat style hull and do some fishing in shallow waters. Grew up on Green River and Green River Lake.
How much weight will it safely hold? How many coats of paint do you apply?
Do you have to register that boat where you are i built a sail/row boat and if i just row it im good but put the sails up and it needs registration in AL😅
I've been looking for one i could build myself for a dingy to pull behind my big cruiser ,and i do think this one is it, hope you don't mind if i copy it.
I don't mind at all! Depending on your location and how you use your boat, there may be better designs out there. Just consider that the sides are very low, and I've not yet tried to carry a passenger. There's also no built-in floatation. You can alter my design as you see fit, of course.
Did you build the sail rig?
do you havve any dimensions/plans anywhere i would love to build this
How heavy of a person do you think could stand on the stern like that before capsizing?
@@TheSurfskateboarder Probably not much heavier than me. I had a little water coming over the rail during that Rodney Mullen move lol
Can I ask the dimension of the mass,and beam, and the pole on top. And did you make your own sails?
I'm really liking this little boat a lot, can't stop thinking about building me one.
Bonjour comment allez vous ? Auriez vous les plans s'il vous plaît ?
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