Building from a half model

[Jon Etheredge]

There was a recent thread asking if anyone had built a boat from a half model before. Here is a picture of a half model that I carved so I could build a catboat. The model is carved from #2 common pine lumber. The model is more workmanlike than the fancy display models that you see but it served it's purpose quite well. The model was sawed on sections to take off the body plan.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid91/p4b2b635365ee43ffd90046b45e8781d3/fa5d66b9.jpg

I faired the lines on the loft floor. The boat is constucted of 1/2" x 1 1/4" bead and cove strips of western red cedar with fiberglass sheathing set in epoxy. The completed boat looks like this:

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid91/p26ea163f2439a8ce68f9e51f072adc90/fa5f8c50.jpg

Additional photos are available in an imagestation album located here (http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4288399915)

BTW, the sail is an old Beetle Cat sail. I haven't ever gotten around to removing the number/fleet insignia that is visible on the last photo in the album. If anybody recognizes which Beetle Cat fleet the sail came out of it might be interesting to know.

[ 12-06-2003, 10:26 PM: Message edited by: Jon Etheredge ]

[Wild Dingo]

Flamin eck Jon thats one beeeoooodyful wee boat :cool:

Is it your own design or did you make the model from plans then build from the model... mmmmm that sounds like a sorta assaboutface way of doing it... but then Ive been wrong before and no doubt will be again :rolleyes:

Wonnerflaminful :cool:

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid91/p5dca85a5d143609e8c256f8410350a69/fa5f87c8.jpg

[rbgarr]

The "W" stands for the Wianno Yacht Club in Osterville, Massachusetts where the Crosby family of Crosby catboat fame built wooden boats for many years. When I was young there I had a Beetlecat, PEQUOD, which was number W 76. I don't recall which W 9 was.

[Jon Etheredge]

Is it your own design or did you make the model from plans then build from the model...
I guess it would qualify as my own design.

I carved the model based on studying photos of Beetle Cats and studying published lines of several other catboats like the Fen Williams 16 and 18 footers, the Rhodes Woodpussy, a couple by Edson Schock, etc. The model was carved "by eye" though.

Thanks for the compliments and the info about the "W" on the sail. The sail was given to me by a friend in Maine and she didn't know where it came from originally. Sometimes when I am out sailing I am asked what the W means and I have never had an answer until now.