Welcome to Getting Started In Boats

Welcome to the Forum for Getting Started in Boats, the new publication from WoodenBoat magazine.

 

This new publication is available FREE with the July/August issue of WoodenBoat, on sale at your local newsstands July 3, 2006.

Please let us know if you found Getting Started in Boats helpful, and post pictures and comments here about your experience with building the Lumberyard Skiff.

We will never rent or abuse your information in any way.  We look forward to the hearing from you, and seeing your boat(s)!  My best wishes, Carl

NOTE:  This Forum is ONLY for conversations about Getting Started In Boats. Sadly, if you post messages about your products, political views, etc, I will have no choice but to whack your message. There are many other, more appropriate places for you to express your views.

 

Comments

[howesonder]

The thwarts should easily hold a small child, but what about the adult supervision?

[Steven Workman]

How hard would it be to extend the deminsions of the skiff to accomodate a family of 5 approximately 600lbs? or if it can't be lengthened or widened what about using floatation foam?

[woodwarrior]

I finished the skiff last week using single planked 1x4 cedar and then packed the seams with home braided jute. after sealing with one coat of varnish, I launched it. she was pretty leaky even after soaking. so I plan to use boatlife lif caulk followed by bottom paint.also addiing a piece of trim where the sides meet the bottom. does this sound like the proper course of action? any comments would be great as this is my first boat building.

[j dean]

Very difficult to find the lumber for the sides in the Northwest. Is there an alternative? Can I scarf shorter but better wood? maybe a different wood found out here? For this to truly be affordable shipping pine from New England is not an alternative.

[dirk]

to the editors,
thank you for going into this interesting project. even in austria we are taking interest in this. by any chance: do you have the opportunity to send the material list from the supplement in electronical form, i will translate it in metrics and german and post it in this forum, when done. Please send it to dirk.janssen@gmx.net. it will be appreciated thanks in advance
dirk

[Geoff Drew]

My WB No.191 arrived yesterday. The Lumberyard Skiff lift-out reminds me somewhat of the How-To articles in the old Rudder. Well done, and I'm trying to source some of those big boards in Hoop Pine clears. (Don't like my chances.)

[KJ Wylie]

HI,just found this,and been looking to build my first boat for a long time!!I'm going out to get a copy of Woodenboat now!!Thanks Woodenboat!

[KJ Wylie]

Hi,great project!!However,it is hard to tell,but how much of an angle,(if any?),on the bow itself?Thanx.

[john w]

Would like to see more details for building the stem. The plans seem sort of vague to me.I wish you could have used a larger picture with a longer discription.

[pat gillespie]

i recieved your first insert on the lumberyard skiff and think its great. i'm embroiled in another project started before this issue and wished i had waited until this project. ah! what the hell i'll do this one next!! its to well explained to pass up.

[X]

is this "skiff" not a sharpie it is even built in a method very similar to the traditional sharpie building method.

[oarsman]

I've built seven flat-bottom skiffs in varying sizes, all with chine logs.
I was at first leery about the "Lumberyard Skiff's"
lack thereof. However, I just finished repairing and repainting a skiff built essentially along the lines Mr. Bray suggests: It was built in the 1930's, has gone through 3 generations of summertime use on the Sound, has maintained its shape & (with proper continuing care) should be good for another 20 years.
So, providing proper workmanship is applied, if you like the "Lumberyard Skiff's" looks, I say go for it.

[Larry Kostal]

Retired engineer.Woodworker and tinkerer. Boats have been a fascination for sixty years. I'm planning to build a 1/8 scale model of Edwin Monk's Curlew.

[Mike Thomas]

Can someone please tell me a measurement on the peace canoe plan.The aft end doesn`t show how far back point is for the bottom and top to meet.The bow shows a measurement of 3 1/16 of an inch from a measurement so I know how to make the angle from top to bottom. But I don`t see a reference for the aft.I can fax a drawing to make this clear if someone could help My son and I are kinda stuck.