Anyone Interested in Wooden Boats & Boatbuilding?

[grant whipp]

I have been a fan of wooden boats for as long as I can remember! I started getting serious about the prospect of building one back in the mid 1980s and started buying Wooden Boat Magazine and a couple of other small boat-related magazines, then started collecting books on the subject. After all of these years, and due to some recent serious downsizing, I’ve realized that I will probably never build my dream boat (and if I ever do, I already posses the knowledge, skills, and resources to do it!), so I’m putting everything I have up for sale. If you would like to buy any of these books or magazines, please message me, here, with your e-mail address, for a full list. If you know or think of anyone who might be interested, please pass this info along.
Thank You, and may fair weather and good seas follow you wherever you journey! And, as always ...

CHEERS!

[Dean in Ct.]

Wooden boats have been my career for the last 38 years. I work at the Mystic Seaport Museum here in Ct. Does that count? Good luck downsizing, if you ever need them the resources will always be there!
Dean

[Woody333]

Ahhhh ... Mystic Seaport Museum ... one of the truly magical places for sailors and landlubbers alike. No matter how many times we sail there and tour the grounds, it is always new and different. Everyone: if you haven't visited, put it on your Bucket List.

My first two sailboats were wood: a Lightning and a Dragon. The open interiors were varnished and truly a beautiful sight. Guess this is part of why my planned Teardrop exterior will be a Woody (with Grant's fenders, of course).

Thanks, Grant, but my boatbuilding library is bursting at the seams with WoodenBoat back issues, sailing and boatbuilding books. I will never build a wood sailboat either, but, as you know, dreaming, planning and learning are an enjoyable way to pass the time.

Fair winds,

Roger in Northern Ohio (now sailing a Pearson 28)

[Roly Nelson]

Well Grant, back in "48, when a Junior in high school, I had a wooden hydroplane boat. It was 4 wide and 8 long, and was the hottest thing on the river, with my brand new 10 horse Mercury. We even water skied behind it. The last time I saw it, was when I was showing off, sitting on the top of the motor and pulling on the bow line that was tied to the bow handle, jumping wakes of other boats.

Well....the rope broke, and I had the dead-man throttle locked wide open. Because it leaked badly, I always had the drain plugs removed when under way, so, splash, in I went and va-va-voom, away it went, straight as an arrow right down the middle of the river doing about 40 mph. Goodby boat, because it sank after it was out of sight. I wish I had one like it today, and have given some thought about getting some neat plans to build a faster, better one with a hot engine. However, I'm too busy building cheaper and quicker teardrops, so the boat is on the the back burner, probably forever because time is running out for this old Octogenarian, (in about 20 years or so).
Roly ~~

[robfisher]

Well Grant, back in "48, when a Junior in high school, I had a wooden hydroplane boat. It was 4 wide and 8 long, and was the hottest thing on the river, with my brand new 10 horse Mercury. We even water skied behind it. The last time I saw it, was when I was showing off, sitting on the top of the motor and pulling on the bow line that was tied to the bow handle, jumping wakes of other boats.

Well....the rope broke, and I had the dead-man throttle locked wide open. Because it leaked badly, I always had the drain plugs removed when under way, so, splash, in I went and va-va-voom, away it went, straight as an arrow right down the middle of the river doing about 40 mph. Goodby boat, because it sank after it was out of sight. I wish I had one like it today, and have given some thought about getting some neat plans to build a faster, better one with a hot engine. However, I'm too busy building cheaper and quicker teardrops, so the boat is on the the back burner, probably forever because time is running out for this old Octogenarian, (in about 20 years or so).
Roly ~~

Too bad that was before the days of ubiquietous video cameras. Would have been great fun to watch.

[rowerwet]

I found this website following links to boat building plans, the site I ended up at had boat plans and a plan for an unusual TD, which led me to google "teardrops". I'll be adding more links to my stories about boats on the "teardrop fiction" thread as they are published on http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/

[D.J.]

Mr. Whip. I too have been collecting boat building books and plans since I was in my teens . I have owned two different wooden boats in my time . One was an 8X4 foot speed boat that I bought just to make a set of plans from . I then sold the boat and never made a new boat . Your best bet for selling your books is probably eBay or a boat building forum site . You could also donate them to a library or a high school shop class . This is a link to many free boat building plans . .... D.J.

http://www.svensons.com/boat/

[NathanL]

I have built a number of wooden boat over the years. Attended boat building school in the summer at the Wooden Boat building school and another in Louisiana in Mandeville. Never anything fancy but functional. I have built lots of pirogues and given them away as gifts because people actually use them and they are quick and easy to build. I save the larger stuff for myself.

Sorry I can't help you tho. Already have enough stuff on my plate to last a couple of lifetimes.

[Bubba]

Yep Grant,Been there. I have a bunch of boat books. Only thing I ever built was a canoe. Plans were from Selway Fisher Designs which is located in the UK. Well they came and I was shocked to realize they were all in metric measurement. So I did ok by buying a nice 1 meter and Inch yardstick and did a good job I think. My dream of building a nice pontoon houseboat got as far as buying the plans from Glen-L and actually building a couple of frames for the pontoons. I still have the boat building fire in my innards but the flame is very low. I started building a small plane and worked on it for 5 years but never finished. That fire went out when I finally sold it to a guy up in north Arkansas. Now I got the Teardrop bug and am fighting myself back and forth to build of not. I have finally realized that the dream of building is very satisfying, and if you do actually build (at least for me) its in the building and not the using of the item. (Only had canoe in the water 2 times. It performed as expected. Great) I still have all my books and intend to keep them and also realize that just dreaming and planning the project is pretty satisfying at my age. (75) Bubba

[nhstt]

Grant, Do you have any books or files on shanty's or very small houseboats?
a printed list of some kind or are you just trying to sell the lot?
Karen