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The Traditional Clinker construction plan contains the fastening list as well. The plans contain full size patterns for the moulds and for the bow and stern transoms, so no lofting is necessary. Details for ply clinker and strip-planked construction are also included. The original Pee Wee was strip-planked and had an unstayed gunter rig, but the centreboard case just forward of the main thwart meant that the rower would often get a wet Wooden Power Boat Plans Australia bum. Pee Wee is built upside down, as in this shot of a half-planked boat in Australian Red Cedar.

Petrel is a slightly larger version of the Pee Wee dinghy, designed by Nigel Shannon. It makes an ideal yacht tender with good performance characteristics like easy rowing and stability.

It can be built with traditional clinker planking, ply clinker planking, or strip-planked. We were looking for a design for a stem dinghy that was only 2. Jordan Smith drew up the lines and we built the first boat in a regional class in Newcastle in The boat proved to be exactly what we wanted, attractive and stable for its size.

After that we Wooden Ski Boat For Sale Australia Job built Pippies by four different methods, strip-planked, ply clinker, traditional clinker and diagonally-planked. Each method can produce a fine vessel. One customer built a traditional clinker version as a tender to his yacht and decided it was too nice to go in the water, so he turned it into a coffee table and built a plywood clinker version for a tender. I have an incomplete traditional clinker Cedar Pippy that will become the tender for my Ranger 24 when completed.

Generally speaking Pippy is built upside down in all methods, but the traditional clinker planked boat can be built right way up. The construction details for strip-planking, traditional clinker construction and plywood clinker construction Wooden Speed Boat Plans Australia Wooden Boat Plans Australia are all in the plans.

Bill Fisher of Drummoyne then Putney, from the famous Sydney boatbuilding family, built the original of this boat in his retirement for his own use in Ian Smith took the lines off Eva Seabird in , and quite a few boats have been built to this design since.

It can be built traditionally clinker planked, or with glued plywood clinker construction or strip-planked. This boat pictured was built by Brendan McMurdo. There is a separate construction plan for traditional clinker construction, and another sheet shows details for ply clinker and strip planking. Beam is 1. Eight-foot oars are about right. This is the original boat, known as the Eva Seabird. The family story goes that Bill Fisher wanted to call it Seabird but his sister Eva wanted it named after her, so it became Eva Seabird.

I asked his grandfather, the oldest family member still alive at that point if I could take off the lines, which he was happy to agree to. The first one we built was built at various shows in When our shed moved to Glebe Point we kept the boat in davits and often rowed it all around Sydney Harbour.

This style of clinker boat is built upright when planked traditionally. The ply clinker and strip-planked versions are easier built upside-down. A ply clinker version was next, built in a Summer School class, and proved to be an excellent rowing boat like the traditional one, being lighter it was marginally faster, except against a headwind. This site is here for all those interested in classic wooden powerboating in Australia. It covers speedboats, raceboats, racing skiffs, hydroplanes and anything else that floats, is made of wood, goes fast and makes a lot of noise doing it.

On offer on the site are pictures and articles of owner's boats, restoration projects, ordinary runabouts that have been in families for years, boats that are no longer extant but deserve a mention, old raceboats, past drivers and races, in fact anything about old wooden powerboats.

Most pictures and articles are from contributors, people with a story to tell. You don't have to own a wooden power boat to become a member, but only wooden boats are permitted at our "gatherings". A large part of this website includes our Bulletin Board.

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