My
Backyard Boats:
Archive
of On Deck log entries: 14
March 03
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Cat
boats, basement boats
[Read
the tone-setting post to this
log]
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Detail
from blueprints of the Quark. Read the building log
here.
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14
March 03: I've decided on the next boat or two that
I'm going to build. This first one -- called the
Quark -- will be a warmup, a single-plywood
sheet canoe of about 8 feet in length. It's a Jim Michalak design
that I've had the plans for since last year. This little boat
is really a cat-sized boat, and certainly a basement boat (it'll
go together down there, and fit out the doorway). Since this
is a cat-sized boat (really, really small), I'll try to get
some pix of Miss
Sparkie in it. I'd call these tiny boats
cat boxes, too, but that would send the wrong signal, since
I like them.
Up
to this morning, while I was getting ready to go to the building
materials palace, I was going to build a design by John Welsford
called the Tender
Behind, as a warmup for the Tread
Lightly design of his that I'm planning
to start in the fall. I have the plans for both of these, and
that is still my plan, to build the one as a warmup on metrics
and Welsford's way of drawing blueprints.
I
aim to finish the Tender Behind, a dink of about 7 feet, 4 inches
in length, in time for the family fun time this summer at Selkirk
Shores on Lake Ontario. This dink has a rounded multi-chine
hull, pram ends, and a standing lug rig with spars and mast
short enough to stow inside the boat.
And
the Quark, which I may name Q-Sign,
can always be a coffee table if I don't like it on the water
... .
