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2. Taipan Catamaran - Wikipedia

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   The Taipan 4.9 is either constructed professionally from kevlar/fibreglass or can be home built from plywood. Very few new boats are built with plywood nowadays. New fibreglass boats are only available from the current manufacturer, Concept Fibres, however amateur builders can buy plans to build a plywood boat.

3. Phil Bolger - Wikipedia

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   The book includes plans for Gypsy (15' sail/oar/outboard), Nymph (7'9" dinghy with sail option), Diablo (15' motor boat for up to 25 HP outboard) as well as 8 more "traditional instant boats" using the chine log method: 16' Lug-rigger Windsprint, 6'5" Tortoise, 8' Skimmer, Dynamite Sailboard, 16'June Bug, Madeline a 19'6" Pedal-driven ...

4. Polynesian Concept - Wikipedia

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   The Polynesian Concept is a recreational sailing catamaran, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim.It has a masthead sloop rig with double spreaders.The hulls have raked stems, reverse transoms, dual transom-hung rudders controlled by a tiller and twin retractable daggerboards.

5. Boat building - Wikipedia

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   Damaged boat mid-reconstruction; carvel planking partially removed Caulking irons and oakum Caulking a wooden boat A sheet plywood sailboat during construction Brady 45' strip-built catamaran under construction Construction of the Naga Pelangi in 2004, a Malaysian pinas, using traditional edge-dowelled techniques.

6. Stitch and glue - Wikipedia

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   The one sheet boat (OSB, cf. oriented strand board) is an outgrowth of the stitch and glue technique. The OSB is a boat that can be built using a single sheet of 4 foot by 8 foot plywood (1.22 m × 2.44 m). Some additional wood is often used, for supports, chines, or as a transom, though some can be built entirely with the sheet of plywood ...

7. Dudley Dix - Wikipedia

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   [2] [3] He is notable for having developed the "radius chine plywood" method as a basis for boat construction. [4] Dix won the 1979 Cruising World Design Competition. [5] Dix has designed yachts of many types (such as monohulls, catamarans and trimarans) employing a variety of materials for the hulls (such as steel, aluminium and wood/epoxy ...

8. Strip-built - Wikipedia

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   Strip-built, or "strip-plank epoxy", is a method of boat building. [1] Also known as cold molding, the strip-built method is commonly used for canoes and kayaks, but also suitable for larger boats. The process involves securing narrow, flexible strips of wood edge-to-edge around temporary formers.

9. Y Flyer - Wikipedia

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   The boat design was first shown in The Rudder magazine in 1938, as plans for amateur construction. Homebuilding of the boat from spruce and plywood continued after fiberglass boats were commercially available. [1] [3]