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Australasian Amateur Boatbuilder and Kitboats 01 02 Australasian Amateur Boatbuilder and Kitboats 2 What Boat Should I Build? N Tony O’Connor AUSTRALASIAN AMATEUR BOATBUILDER AND KITBOATS 01 02 australasian amateur boatbuilder and kitboats 2 What Boat Should I Build? n Tony O’Connor 6 How to Organise Your Own Redfin 22 MK2 Kit n Barrie Armstrong 12 St Ayles Skiffs n Robert Ayliffe 14 Fast Ferries Australia n David Jones 18 Trailer Suspension n Don Nicholson 22 Cutter n Jim Atkinson 28 Port Fairy - Oldest Working Peake Designed Self Righting Life Boat in the World in Port Fairy n Jonathan Wallis publisher P & G Lynch & Assoc Pty Ltd 32 Why Keels Kill People and the Myth of editor Paul Lynch Keels Being Traditional n Robert Ayliffe production Wendy Elliston accounts Gayl Lynch 36 Duckchaser n Don Nicholson printing Beaudesert Times distribution Gordon & Gotch 40 Fibreglass Reinforced Plastics (FRP Explained) n Dave Giddings 47 Problems with Rudders n Dudley Dix Editorial contributions and 55 Pilgrim – A Seriously Capable Open Boat n John Welsford advertising enquiries to: Paul Lynch 58 n Greg Barwick The Inverloch Classic Wooden Dinghy Regatta 10 Rina Court 64 FireBug News n Peter Tait Varsity Lakes, Q 4227 PO Box 560, Varsity Lakes Q 4227 70 Didi on Port Phillip Bay n Robert Ayliffe p: 07 5593 8187 e: [email protected] 76 Cody Horgan Returns to Franklin n Jonathan Wallis 79 Missee Lee n Robert Ayliffe Disclaimer: All opinions expressed in articles in this magazine are those of the writers concerned and FRONT COVER: do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher. Pilbara Succes s, Copyright: Articles in this a sail and oar publication may not be reproduced boat built by without permission of the publisher Tony O’Connor and/or writer. and designed by Francois Vivier. www.amateurboatbuilder.com.au australasian amateur boatbuilder and kitboats 1 Gary Barker’s Ilur in the worlds cleanest workshop. What boat should I build by tony o’connor “the desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thence forward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling? yet to accept the idea of a final resting place” Arthur Ransome. guess it is fair to say that most people reading this aspects of building and using the boat, there is also magazine are either building their own boat are the question of why they want to build at all. I are planning to sometime soon. For many potential While you may not always be able to build a new builders it is not a question of whether they will build boat for the price of a secondhand boat, the great a boat but what boat they will build. I suspect that for advantage of self building is that you get to decide some people the actual building of the boat is more how your boat is constructed and, more importantly, important than the sailing of the boat when the project you don’t inherit the mistakes and short cuts of is inally inished. previous owners and builders. But as well as that I One question I am frequently asked by people who think that for many people there is an inherent desire contact me about a kit boat ask is what is the best to build things, something in our DNA, a kind of throw design for them to build. back to a time when we needed to be more self It is a complex question and I don’t really think there suficient than we are nowadays. For some people it is any easy answer to it. Apart from the technical may be a piece of furniture, or a car, or even a house, 2 australasian amateur boatbuilder and kitboats and for some of us it is the desire to build a boat and is the ‘stitch and glue’ method and very big boats can all the possibilities that go with it. be built this way. In some ways a boat is the epitome of the desire to Strip planking, cold moulding and clinker ply are also build something, not only must it be watertight and all common, and of course CNC kits can greatly assist keep its crew safe in what can sometimes be a very in all these methods. For the very ambitious or skilled hostile environment, it must also be able to work with there is always traditional planked boats, either clinker sails or motor to move through the water eficiently, or carvel, but for the vast majority of home builders and hopefully it will be beautiful to look at too. No these methods of construction are not practical. small challenge, for the designer as well as for the Although these modern methods of construction can builder! Modern boatbuilding has become signiicantly make construction easier there is also the complexity more accessible to amateurs with the advent of epoxy resins, and also almost all the information a builder could need can be found somewhere on the internet. A few years ago I sent an Ilur kit to Gary Barker in Queensland and at the time he confessed that he was a bit nervous as he had never built anything like a boat before but he was deinitely game to give it a go. I told him that he could contact me with whatever questions he may have or any problems or issues he found and I would be happy to help him. I didn’t hear anything from him for several months Jewell cabin with step and then one day he sent on the centreboard case. me a beautiful picture of the completed hull. I was surprised that I hadn’t heard from him and that he hadn’t needed any help and of the design to consider – too ambitious a project when I asked him about this he said that he had found can end up with the builder getting bogged down and all the information he had needed online, particularly losing momentum. Ultimately a builder needs to judge on forums like the wooden boat forum. whether their skill level will be enough to complete ? the project but it is worth remembering that even if The two main questions about designs that I get your skills are limited at the beginning you are likely to asked by prospective builders are: learn a lot and improve over the course of the project, “Will I be able to build this boat?” and; and anyway, sometimes facing up to such challenges “Will this boat be suitable for what I want to do with is what gives us the greatest satisfaction when the it?” project is inally completed. And although there is no easy answer to either The other big consideration when taking on a project question I ind that a good rule with all boats is to go like building a boat is your workspace; how big is it for the smallest boat that its your purpose. and what tools and facilities you will need. Building Firstly “can I build it”? Obviously a person’s individual in a small conined space can be very frustrating and skill will play an important role in determining whether room for laying out parts as well as rolling over the they are able to build their boat and for a complete hull if necessary, dust extraction, moisture control, novice it can be a good idea to build something really storage of materials etc, all need to be considered. small and simple just to get used to the materials and I have heard it said by other professional boatbuilders tools used to build a bigger boat. Epoxy resins have that when building a new a boat the workshop needs made boatbuilding easier but building a boat can still to be three times the area of the footprint of the boat be a complex business even with a CNC cut kit, and being built, but most home builders don’t have the some methods of construction are more complex than luxury of that much space and have to work within others. Probably the easiest method of building a boat whatever space they can manage. The building jig for australasian amateur boatbuilder and kitboats 3 people often ask is whether a particular design is seaworthy enough. It is commonly said that the main consideration for seaworthiness is not so much the boat as the people sailing the boat but that is something that the skipper must judge for themselves. One factor that all skippers can achieve is to ensure that their safety equipment, EPIRB, VHF lares etc. are all functioning and by observing safety procedures such as informing coast guard or other responsible persons of departure, destination and estimated times of arrival etc. But from my point of view as a builder the main Ebihen hull being turned over single handed. concern is the design itself. Personally I like high freeboard in a boat for open Gary’s Ilur was very robust so he was able to mount water, positive buoyancy so you know that even it on casters and move it around in his garage (which in in the worst scenario the boat willnot go to the was the tidiest building site I have ever seen – see lead image). bottom. Franscois Vivier’s Ebihen and Ilur designs are the most popular designs of that type that I deal Whereas the Ebihen (above) was built in a semi with but within my sailing friends there is a wide open workshop in rural New South Wales, deinitely array of similar boats. John Welsford’s Navigator a challenging set up in terms of moisture control but and Pathinder being the most common as well as with lots of room available.
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