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Re: 16' stripper
By:Paul G. Jacobson
Date: 9/5/2001, 3:57 am
In Response To: 16' stripper (Rich Black)

: Do you have plans for a 16' - 16.5' "low in the water" stripper
: similar to a wood & canvas Greenland boat?

If you find the plans for such a boat you can very easily adapt them, and use them to build a stripper, Stitch-and-glue, or board on chine version of the SOF boat.

The basis for wood-and-canvas boat plans is usually a set of drawings for ribs around which long strips of wood (chines) are bent. Over these a layer of cloth is pulled tight and waterproofed.

If instead of bending chines around the ribs you bend strips, then you'll have a stripper. The cloth covering will be fiberglass cloth, and it will be saturated with plastic resin. and you will want to put a layer on the inside, too.

If you lay thin strips of plywood over the chines so they meet in the middle of the chine, you can glue and screw these plywood strips to the chines. This way you can eliminate the cloth covering on the inside, and maybe the outside, too. If you use it on the exterior it may be there just for ding resistance. Or, you may use strips of glass fabric over the long joints between the plywood strips.

If you make your plywood strips as described above, but attach them ot each other , rather than fastening them to the chines, then you can glass the outside and inside, put a good filet in each long seam between the panel strips, and end up with a stitch and glue model.

Hope this helps

PGJ

Messages In This Thread

16' stripper
Rich Black -- 9/4/2001, 9:16 am
Re: 16' stripper
pete c -- 9/5/2001, 4:34 am
Re: 16' stripper
Paul G. Jacobson -- 9/5/2001, 3:57 am