Strip plank Welsford Navigator link

[TonyH]

Some time ago - quite some time ago :D - I saw a website with a step-by-step photo-essay on the building of a Welsford Navigator, but with the sides strip planked instead of lapstrake ply. Does anyone still have the link? I've lost it somewhere along the line.:(

Cheers

Tony

[Thorne]

Have you checked the Welsford Yahoo group? John W. is known to respond to email inquiries rapidly.

[john welsford]

Yes there was one done that way a while back, it looked lovely but the builder regretted not having built in ply plank as the boat took an awful lot longer to build than it should have.

JohnW

Some time ago - quite some time ago :D - I saw a website with a step-by-step photo-essay on the building of a Welsford Navigator, but with the sides strip planked instead of lapstrake ply. Does anyone still have the link? I've lost it somewhere along the line.:(

Cheers

Tony

[TonyH]

Thanks John

I wasn't proposing to mimic him, it was just a very good photo essay. I recall he had some trouble getting the hull fair, too.

[James McMullen]

Glued lapstrake is so vastly more enjoyable to me than cedar strip planking--both in terms of joy per minute of boatbuilding as well as total number of minutes required that I can't imagine ever building another stripper again for myself if there were any way to tweak the lines to allow her to be built lapstrake. Of course he had to take great pains to get the hull fair--that's what strip-planking is all about--lotsa sanding--yuck! :eek:

[ShagRock]

Hi James - you wrote:Glued lapstrake is so vastly more enjoyable to me than cedar strip planking--both in terms of joy per minute of boatbuilding as well as total number of minutes required. I realize you're talking sailboats here, but would your opinion be much the same for canoes - if the shape was amenable to lapstrake?

If you are switching from a strip to a lapstake build for a particular design, would you then be lofting your own planks or have the designer do this for you?
Shagrock

[James McMullen]

Yep. The canoe I am building right now is lapstrake. You should line off the plank shapes yourself on your own set of station moulds so you can see it in all three dimensions to get the fairest runs.