Boat Building Forum
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Date: 2/16/2008, 5:43 pm
The one naval architect I am familiar with, Jacques Mertens, always askes "what is you program?", meaning what are your personal requirements for this boat and how much are you willing to spend?
So the boat is to be 30' long.
Will it;
sail in oceans or lakes?
travel far from shore?
need to have bunks and how many?
need a flush head?
need a standup shower
be inboard or outboard powered?
What kind of construction do you prefer?
Plank on frame?
Strip?
Lapstrake?
Stitch and glue?
How much time are you willing to invest?
How much money?
Do you have a heated building to build in or is your climate mild enough to do it outside?
Are you aware that the cost of building a sailboat hull is about equal to the cost of all the rigging and the sails?
Etc.
Etc.
If you want to look at some S&G design of the size you prefer go to;
http://www.bateau.com/
: I'm wondering what the feasibility is of building a large wooden sailboat?
: I'm talking something that is 30'+. Or is this something that is best left
: to fiberglass or metal hull? Are there any decent books on building larger
: sailboats? Perhaps I should be referring to a "sailing yacht"
: instead of sailboat.
: cheers
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Doug Smith -- 2/16/2008, 11:57 am- Re: Off Topic: feasibility of building a sailboat?
Bill Hamm -- 2/19/2008, 5:22 am- Re: Off Topic: feasibility of building a sailboat?
Acors -- 2/20/2008, 9:22 pm- Re: Off Topic: feasibility of building a sailboat?
Bill Hamm -- 2/21/2008, 12:58 am
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Bill Hamm -- 2/19/2008, 5:20 am- Do you want to build or sail?
Steve Phillips -- 2/19/2008, 12:43 am- Re: Do you want to build or sail?
John Monroe -- 2/19/2008, 2:14 am
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John Monroe -- 2/18/2008, 5:35 am- Re: Off Topic: feasibility of building a sailboat?
Bill Hamm -- 2/19/2008, 2:35 am
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Bryan Hansel -- 2/17/2008, 8:08 pm- Re: Off Topic: feasibility of building a sailboat?
Bryan Hansel -- 2/17/2008, 8:13 pm- Re: Off Topic: feasibility of building a sailboat?
Mike Savage -- 2/17/2008, 8:50 pm- Re: Off Topic: feasibility of building a sailboat?
Björn Thomasson -- 2/18/2008, 1:22 pm- Re: Off Topic: feasibility of building a sailboat?
Mike Savage -- 2/18/2008, 5:16 pm
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Bryan Hansel -- 2/18/2008, 12:44 pm- Re: Off Topic: feasibility of building a sailboat?
Etienne Muller - Ireland -- 2/18/2008, 8:31 am- Re: Off Topic: feasibility of building a sailboat?
Bill Hamm -- 2/18/2008, 2:04 am - Re: Off Topic: feasibility of building a sailboat?
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Mike Scarborough -- 2/17/2008, 9:41 am- Re: Off Topic: feasibility of building a sailboat?
laurent -- 2/17/2008, 4:26 pm- Re: Off Topic: feasibility of building a sailboat?
Bill Hamm -- 2/18/2008, 2:03 am
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Etienne Muller - Ireland -- 2/17/2008, 8:51 am- Not a ramble at all!
Lloyd of Canandaigua------WebKitFormBoundarydD6K+p -- 2/18/2008, 7:10 am
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Mike Braun -- 2/17/2008, 7:23 am- Here . . . .
Dave Gentry -- 2/17/2008, 8:31 am
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John Monroe -- 2/17/2008, 6:49 am- Sheet Steel Built Sailboat. *Pic*
John Monroe -- 2/17/2008, 9:50 am
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Bill Hamm -- 2/17/2008, 2:05 am- Re: Off Topic: feasibility of building a sailboat?
Bill Hamm -- 2/17/2008, 1:59 am- Re: Off Topic: feasibility of building a sailboat?
Bryan Hansel -- 2/16/2008, 7:47 pm- Re: Off Topic: feasibility of building a sailboat?
Charlie -- 2/16/2008, 5:43 pm- building a sailboat? Why not use concrete?
Paul G. Jacobson -- 2/16/2008, 4:30 pm- Re: building a sailboat? Why not use concrete?
Bill Hamm -- 2/17/2008, 2:02 am- Re: building a sailboat? Why not use concrete?
Paul G. Jacobson -- 2/19/2008, 12:04 am- Re: building a sailboat? Why not use concrete?
Bill Hamm -- 2/19/2008, 2:30 am
- Re: building a sailboat? Why not use concrete? *LINK*
Björn Thomasson -- 2/17/2008, 12:52 pm- Re: building a sailboat? Why not use concrete?
Paul G. Jacobson -- 2/19/2008, 12:02 am- Very nice looking. *NM*
John Monroe -- 2/18/2008, 5:16 am- Re: Very nice looking. *LINK* *Pic*
Björn Thomasson -- 2/18/2008, 7:02 am- Re: Very nice looking.
Bill Hamm -- 2/19/2008, 2:27 am- Re: Very nice looking. *LINK* *Pic*
Etienne Muller - Ireland -- 2/19/2008, 10:21 am- Re: Very nice looking.
Bill Hamm -- 2/20/2008, 2:01 am
- Re: Very nice looking.
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Bryan Hansel -- 2/18/2008, 12:46 pm- Re: Very nice looking.
Tom Yost -- 2/18/2008, 10:16 am- Re: Very nice looking. *Pic*
Etienne Muller - Ireland -- 2/18/2008, 8:10 am- Re: Very nice looking.
Björn Thomasson -- 2/18/2008, 9:35 am
- Re: Very nice looking. *LINK* *Pic*
- Re: Very nice looking.
- Re: building a sailboat? Why not use concrete?
Bill Hamm -- 2/18/2008, 1:57 am- Re: building a sailboat? Why not use concrete? *Pic*
Dan Caouette (CSFW) -- 2/18/2008, 6:21 am- Re: building a sailboat? Why not use concrete?
Bill Hamm -- 2/19/2008, 2:24 am
- Re: building a sailboat? Why not use concrete?
- Very nice looking. *NM*
- Re: building a sailboat? Why not use concrete?
- Re: building a sailboat? Why not use concrete?
- feasibility of building a sailboat?
Paul G. Jacobson -- 2/16/2008, 4:01 pm- Re: feasibility of building a sailboat?
Doug Smith -- 2/16/2008, 4:53 pm
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Dave Gentry -- 2/16/2008, 3:56 pm- Re: Off Topic: feasibility of building a sailboat?
Kudzu -- 2/16/2008, 2:12 pm - Re: Off Topic: feasibility of building a sailboat?
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