Home Made Wooden Boats ?

[pdspeh]

Who's Got one?

I know you Tolman guys are very proud of your Craft

So Lets' see em.

What others are being run out there???



I have a friend who is interested in building a cheap , quick, simple Plywood 14' Skiff
( like the Lady Bug boats below)



pd

[lugger]

i have one we bulit for duck hunting , its a proto just under 8ft . , with a 6 hp it will do 25mph , bulit 3 others that are sorta the same , but they are just prototypes for the final aluminum product

[G8RDave]

Here's a picture of a 12 foot wooden skiff my 8 year old son and I built recently. The picture is from the first sea trial. We've added rub rails along the edge since. Still trying to decide if we want to paint it or stick with the natural wood color. We hope to use it for some flats fishing this summer, but so far its just been used for tooling around the island. Hopefully the picture will load.

[Booker]

14' Tom Colvin. Tom is a boatbuilder in Mandeville, LA. It is built out of 99% cypress, save for the transom and bottom(marine plywood) and the stem (heart pine). The bottom is glassed up to the top of the bottom paint.



I refinished it and revised the layout for 2 pedestal seats. It'll do 23 mph with just me and a 15 hp 'rude. It's a great swamp boat. Will go in almost any skinny water.

Of all the boats I've owned, this one consistently gets more compliments than any other.

This above boat was built in 1990 for my late brother who fished the hell out of it for 10 years. He gave it to me when we built him a 18' version:



This one we built out of marine plywood with spanish cedar frames and a cypress console. It would touch 40 mph with me, the dog, and a 60 hp 'rude. A true fishing machine. Sadly, it was stolen during Katrina, and was never recovered.

[shoes]

Tolmans? Yes! Here's my 20' Tolman. WoodenBoat Mag used a picture of my boat in their annual Small Boats Issue last December.

[Gringo]

Hey dere, Booker....dat dere look lak one of dem dere Pirogues....eh?

[A Few Dollars]

My dad and I built 4 skiffs and about 8 pirogues when we use to duck hunt.
http://bateau.com/
http://gatorboats.com/

[pdspeh]

Great looking boats!
Thanks for the links..

I found this great site with Many different builders plans in one place...some are free.

http://www.duckworksbbs.com/plans.htm


-free canoe plans too....I might make this one:

http://www.bateau2.com/free/cheapcanoe.htm

pd

[kevdog]

Here are a couple of homemade boats -Tolmans-


http://kbeddoeboats.com/pictures/pic...emadelisa.html

http://kbeddoeboats.com/pictures/pic...ularodhog.html

Kevdog

[pdspeh]

Thanks Kevdog.


I found this site that has so many different plans --your head will spin..

http://www.boatdesigns.com/

....plus a 9' tug boat PLan ???.