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Building A Boat
By: Bev Hayden
If you live near water or take weekend breaks and holidays near water you will know that boats are a very popular weekend pastime, providing so much enjoyment and fun. Most people don’t know that they can assemble their own boat at a small percentage of the expenditure of buying one and you can make your goals come true by building your own boat.
Where to begin. Initially you would need to choose on the kind of boat you would like, whether or not it be a sail boat, rowing boat, speed boat - there are lots to choose from. Then you would set out to get hold of some high-quality boat plans. Most boat plans for sale online are drawn up professionally by manufacturers and boat designers with years and years of practice.
Wooden boat plans are among the most simplest to follow and you can assemble a boat that will last you a lifetime and be able to pass on to your offspring and grandchildren.
No matter if you are wanting to build a boat for leisure reasons or for the reason that you just could do with something to go fishing in, you can find plans or a kit to build your own boat. There are many advantages to building your own boat, one of the best advantages is that you are getting exactly what you want. You don’t have to worry about paying additional for unique features because you can customize your wooden boat or sail boat to incorporate the features you want right from the start.
In no time you will become familiar with boat building techniques such as ’stitch and glue’. The stitch and glue technique is a method of boatbuilding that enables a boatbuilder to build a boat very quickly at minimal outlay. With this technique you can use low cost materials and calls for low skills and only basic tools. It is the quickest, cheapest and easiest form of construction. Boats up to forty feet long have been built using this system and are in use worldwide today.
There are numerous other techniques of boat construction such as Ply Over Frame, Strip Plank, Cold Moulded and Clinker Ply.
Plywood is a robust material made out of a lot of wooden sheets and is extremely strong for boat making. This is a wood product prepared from many sheets of veneer or plies. It undergoes the process of pressing together, glued with grains going in multiple directions. Plywood is a high quality wooded sheet that has resistance to cracking, breaking, twisting, warping, bending and shrinkage so making it a very popular choice.
Other boat building material includes steel, aluminium, ferro-cement and GRP (glass reinforced plastic).
To build your own boat is a wonderful experience that you can share with your kids and grand kids. Even if you have never built anything before in your life, the directions are uncomplicated enough that you won’t have any problems following them. Plans come with step-by-step instructions and clear drawings. Of course it will be time consuming to build your own boat but the rewards of knowing that you did it yourself will all be worth the time and effort you put into your boat.
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