Catalogue of all small boat plans and custom small boat designs by tad roberts. plans for plywood, lapstrake, plank-on-frame, cold-molded, sheath-stripped, and aluminum construction. free plans for tern, 24' gaff ketch.. John designed and built his first glued-lapstrake boat (rozinante, a 15’ light, fast rowboat) in 1987, and we have been designing and building glued-lapstrake boats together since 1990. for more than a decade, we ran our own shop building custom boats to our designs and those of others, including iain oughtred, doug hylan, and harry bryan.. Vintage, which is our name for the dinghy, is a round-bilge, lapstrake boat; she was designed in an era when most all round-bilge dinghies, and other small craft, were planked in that manner. it is of interest, and worth recording, that the wheel of time is again making popular small round-bilge, lapstrake motor and sailing boats..
Plans are fully detailed, and consist of 11 sheets including herreshoff’s original construction drawing. other sheets include sail plan, lines plan, original construction, glued lapstrake plywood construction, spars & rigging plan, building jig, and four sheets of full sized patterns and plank layouts.. Posts tagged ‘plywood lapstrake boatbuilding’ i took inspiration from iain oughtred’s designs and his book on lapstrake boat construction in many of the alterations i made to the design, and the tapering shape of the thwart supports are one example of this. the finished trailer! waiting for a boat.. Lapstrake/clinker planking their strength allows for the use of thinner planking than would normally be used on a carvel planked boat. the lower cost of materials makes it an ideal building method that the average handyman could afford..
