Yes, I said FUNabout, not RUNabout, although this little boat is both! The Squirt is a 10′ runabout designed for plywood construction. This little runabout is the most popular
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Today’s article is a letter to the editor submitted to “Small Craft Advisor” magazine. We advertise in SCA and it is a wonderful magazine for sailors and would-be sailors. I really thought that Roger’s letter was such a wonderful expression of boatbuilding that I wanted to share it. We have Roger’s permission to use it.
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?Rudy Heckman was 40 years old when he immigrated to the United States from a little town in Germany. Although he spoke no English, he was able to find work at a machine shop on Terminal Island, the port for Los Angeles.
As he drove to work each morning he crossed a bridge where numerous boats were nested in slips. Rudy was especially enamored with the tall masts of the cruising sailboats. Thoughts turned to dreams of sailing the ocean…
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Continuing the boat building dream #27…
Today’s interview is only one minute long and this craftsman is truly living his dream in the boat he built himself…
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Continuing the boatbuilding dream…
Legend has it that when Archimedes discovered the basic principle of buoyancy some 2000 years ago by stepping into a bath, he became so excited that he ran home without his clothes on, shouting “eureka, eureka” (“I have found it, I have found it”). Contrary to what you might think, what old Archy really found was that when a person stepped into
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A builder emailed today asking if the side planking for the Outrage is attached to the frames. The Outrage is a 16′ deep vee ski boat and is built using sheet plywood construction. My father wrote an article on the subject of fastening planking to frames and includes a great history lesson about the evolution of plywood boat construction.
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This interview is of boatbuilder Dwain Colton who built the Ski King 15′ classic wood inboard ski boat. Listen in as he discusses using Glen-L boat plans to build this beautiful boat and see his work in action on the water…
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Building a boat is definitely an addiction and boat builder Kevin Brown has coined that phrase for himself.
The Squirt is the second Glen-L boat that Kevin has built and is not the last. The first was our Tubby Tug design that is a little 9′ tug he built for his daughter.
The Squirt is by far the most popular design we have
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Stitch and glue boat building is touted by many as the preferred method of building for the first timer. There are a couple of reasons for this. First, this type of boat building is done by forming plywood panels around forms and then stitching them together.
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At the 2009 Gathering of Boatbuilders that was held in Alabama, we hired a Videographer. This was the third Gathering which showcases mostly wood boats that folks have built using our boat plans as well as other designers. This was the first time we’d done this for one of our Gatherings or anything for that [...]
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