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Doug
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Initially Posted - 01/24/2005 : 11:35:15

The Center for Wooden Boats in Seattle has a family boat building program. For about $1,100 your family works with other families under the supervision of a boatwright to build a sailng dink. Takes a couple weekends, then they launch them all on Lake Washington. Looks like a fun thing to do if you're in the area.

http://www.cwb.org/FamilyBoatBuilding.htm

Doug - #1913 Noeta

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John Mason
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Response Posted - 01/24/2005 : 14:18:30

That's a nice place, but $1100 for a build-it-yourself dinghy seems a bit steep.

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Douglas
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Response Posted - 01/24/2005 : 18:31:34

Hi John / Doug, havent seen you to in quite some time . Doug you should get together with John and have a look at the dink he built. I saw it when we met up with John several years ago for a few days in the South Sound. We had a wonderfull time but thats another story . John boat and oars were real somehing to see . As a mater of fact I would love to have a dink like Johns for Triska. I think it was a nesting dinghy but it's been so long ago. Johns craftsman ship was superb as were his ideas. John wish you would post a picture and share that dinghy with us. Who's plans you used and source of your wood. Hope to see you two on the water this year. Ruth and I will be cruising to Dockton on Feb. 12th . There is a huge cruisers party in Poulbo on the first week of August . Should be 50 boats or so there . Drop by if your in the area.

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John Mason
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Response Posted - 01/25/2005 : 12:48:44

Hi Douglas,
We'll definitely have to get together on the water this year - at least once! Thanks for the compliments. You're too kind. Most of my ideas stem from the fact that I'm cheap!

[url="http://catalog.com/bobpone/oars.htm"]Two-piece oars[/url]

The oars (similar to the oars in the link above) I made from grey PVC pipe, a wood closet rod and some scraps of marine plywood I had around. I ran the closet dowel all the way through the PVC, rather than just at the break-apart splice. I just couldn't see spending $80-$100 each for two-piece oars. Made mine for about $30 for both.

[url="http://www.bandbyachtdesigns.com/yachtt3.htm"]Catspaw dinghy[/url]
Here's the link to the website where I bought the plans. I built the 8' nesting version of the Catspaw dinghy. Didn't build the sail rig. The stitch and glue construction was easy. It's a good thing too, because when I received the plans, they forgot the first part. The written portion started with, "Now that you have the hull constructed, here's how to make it a nesting dinghy..." From the diagrams, I was able to figure out the hull construction.

It can fit on the foredeck nested together. I can "just" get around it to access the anchor locker. Once anchored, I stand the two pieces up against the mast, bolt it together, then use the jib halyard to lift it into the water.

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stampeder
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Response Posted - 01/26/2005 : 12:42:21

John: I've been looking through magazines and old threads trying to find the right tender - if you had to do it again, would you choose the catspaw? if not, which would you choose to build?

thank you

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John Mason
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Response Posted - 01/26/2005 : 16:38:22

Well, I was looking for a two-piece nesting dinghy, so it would fit on the foredeck and store in a smaller space. This was one of the few I found plans for.

After having built it though, I must say I like it a lot. It rows very easily (I don't have a motor for it) and is fairly stable getting in and out of it. Very stable moving through the water. I've been in a lapstrake, rounded bottom dinghy that rolled every time you flinched and felt like it was going to tip completely over if you didn't sit absolutely still.

It was easy to build. I just used 1/4" ACX plywood from Home Depot and didn't worry too much about making it pretty since I considered it a "working" boat, what with dragging it ashore and back.

The only down-side was the people were hard to get in touch with (must have been out sailing), and the first part of the written assembly instructions were missing. But after looking at the drawings, I figured out how to deal with that part on my own. Couldn't get a hold of them to get the first part.

So to do it again, I'd go with the catspaw. If I couldn't contact the people, I would look for one as close to the catspaw in design, as I could find.

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