Winter project

[Dick Millet]

Since winter started early and hard here in upstate NY I did the only thing I could do...I built an indoor size boat!

http://www.albany.net/~rmillet/babyboat.JPG

And for scale, that's a quarter on the center seat.

http://www.albany.net/~rmillet/Scale.JPG

And a close-up of rear seat cane work. It's not real cane, I used flat artificial sinew split into 4 pieces. Left everything beyond about 3 feet looking pretty fuzzy for several hours afterwards. smile.gif

http://www.albany.net/~rmillet/minirearseat.JPG

Sure was fun though. Man, I can't wait for winter to be over.

Dick

[Johannah]

Very pretty. What kind of boat is it? A little reminiscent of an Adirondak guide boat?

[David N.]

very nice .

I see book cases that are made to be like boat's , long winter's , I guess ?? .

[Dave Fleming]

Sweet Looking Guide Boat!

The scale is deceiving until you look at the quarter.

Aces work....

[Dick Millet]

Johannah, yep it's a Guideboat, 1:3 scale of the full size one I built last year. Color is different though, I wanted to see how it would look in green. I like blue better. You can see that one here (http://www.albany.net/~rmillet/guideboat.html) .

David, my wife asked me to build a couple of bookcase boats. Nothing's getting done in my unheated garage though until the weather changes.

Dave, I was going to post this pic first and see if anyone caught the squirrel tracks.

http://www.albany.net/~rmillet/snow1.jpg

Dick

[Dave Fleming]

Would'a fooled me that shot in the snow.
Didn't you post that web site stuff in D&P some time back? It seems very familiar. NOT to take anything away from this accomplishment that is.

[Dick Millet]

Yep, that was me. Thought Johannah might want to take a look. Can't help being self satisfied about that boat. It's my third one but is so far above the other two that I can't even bring myself to take them out anymore.

Dick

[ 02-10-2003, 01:14 AM: Message edited by: Dick Millet ]

[Todd Bradshaw]

Hey Dick, If you hurry you can get the one for the other foot made just in time for "Pontoon Shoe Boating Season"...

[Paul Scheuer]

Very Nice !

After that, a full-sized guide boat would be child's play.

What is the actual scale ?

[Johannah]

After reading who knows how many come hither books about the Adirondacks, I'm still amazed to recognize the boat. Your full sized model is lovely but I like the green better. Sorry, just a traditionalist. tongue.gif

[nedL]

Beautiful work there Dick! I've always appreciated the work that goes into a full size guide boat. It must be three times moe for a 1/3 model! smile.gif

[Dick Millet]

Todd, I thought about that but the cedar planks are only 1/16" thick. Maybe if I glassed the bottom. Do ya think we could get a traditional class created for the 2003 season? ;)

Paul, it's 1 to 3 scale, almost exactly, on everything. Couldn't find any screws though. It actually took just about 1/3 the time to build as its big brother in the garage. There's a big difference to fairing 1/16" planks compared to 1/4" strips.

Now I just had 16 1"x10"x8' very dark, clear, red cedar boards given to me. Anybody care to guess what's gonna be done with them?

Dick

[J. Dillon]

Beautiful boat. :D What a tempting gift, all that cedar. :cool: I'm sure you'll come up with a project worth of a magazine cover. ;)

JD