Would You Consider A Wooden Boat?
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- Опубліковано 27 лип 2024
- Wood boats built from wooden boat kits are something that boat building enthusiasts have used for years to build small wooden boats ranging from wood kayaks to wood sailboats and even wood powerboats. In this video I visit Chesapeake Light Craft - the leading supplier of wooden boat building plans and wooden boat building kits to learn more about what is involved with building wood boats from kits. They specialize in supplying wooden boat kits for beginners.
These small wood boats look amazing and are relatively easily assembled for first time boat builders from plans or complete boat kits at home, or built during week-long workshops. These wooden boats are then sealed in epoxy resin and fiberglass to protect and strengthen the wooden structure making a very sturdy and lightweight composite boat!
If you might be interested in building your own wooden boat, be sure to check out their UA-cam channel or web site!
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00:00 Introduction
01:00 Visiting Chesapeake Light Craft for boat kits and boatbuilding materials
02:05 Boatbuilding classes to assemble the hull of your wooden boat kit
02:50 Teardrop Camper kits and plans to build your own teardrop camper
03:10 Looking at the Lighthouse Tender Peapod from Chesapeake Light Craft
05:24 Tools needed to build a boat from a Chesapeake Light Craft wooden boat kit
06:04 Stitch and Glue technique for building small wooden boats
07:15 A closer look at the how the boats are built from the kits
09:16 How Chesapeake Light Craft makes and ships their wooden boat kits
10:05 My thoughts on Chesapeake Light Craft and building your own wooden boat
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I was 68 and my friend was 70 when we built a CLC Peeler Skiff in his barn in 2014. It was a wonderful experience just building the boat. My family and I have been using her on Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island for the last 8 years. We'll be putting her on her saltwater mooring in a few weeks so we can enjoy 2023 and catch some of the Striped Bass that are moving into the Bay as I write. The Peeler Skiff is a great family boat and is rugged and very seaworthy. I'm really glad we built her.
That’s inspiring!!! Thanks for sharing
Sounds awesome!
there is many advantages to build your own wooden boat
1) a wooden boat is much quieter than a fiberglass or aluminum boat
2) a wooden boat is tailorable to your taste and needs ( you have so many designs available and each design is tailorable )
3) the choice of power is illimited ( sail, gas, diesel, electric, shaft drive, I/O, ) and the engine choice is not limited to GM
4) the proudness to have built your own boat THIS IS PRICELESS
very good topic
very good video.
Thanks!!
Much lighter than other boats as well...
Along with factoring the time to restore the Whaler vs building a new Wooden Skiff, you also need to factor in the Cost to power the Whaler vs CLC Wooden boat. A 60-HP outboard is about $8,000 vs a 15-HP outboard is about $3,000. If you only have to buy a 15-HP then you could use the $5,000 in savings to pay for the CLC Peeler Skiff Kit!
That’s some nice math!
Paul Gartside the naval architect/engineer said that a guy who built houses and read a book on boat building COULDN’T build a wooden boat , unless he was “compelled” to do so … after reading books ( Dave Gerr & others ) for 2-1/2 years before retiring , this old home builder actually built a wooden boat of my own design, got the boat division of the Virginia DWR to approve its construction, and had it featured in the Dec. ‘21 online version of Wooden Boat magazine … I was “compelled “ !!! … just like CLC , you never know till you try !!! 😊
My dad made a Chesapeake Boats single person kayak and it is still in great shape and hanging in our garage. We take it out a few times a year and enjoy it. He really enjoyed building it with his buddy. They're both 60+ and enjoyed hanging out together in his buddy's workshop. It's a pretty nice little kayak, although I kind of think I'd just buy a plastic kayak if that was what I wanted. It's just kind of easier than all the work that goes into a wooden kayak.
I built a CLC Annapolis Wherry 12 years ago. It is very strong, relatively light, and an absolute beauty to behold. Whalers are good boats, but the Peeler Skiff will get admiring looks and compliments every time you launch.
Yeah they’re impressive
CNC machines are very cool. I worked in a shop that made router bits for CNCs. Solid carbide. I got to see many different materials cut, and the speed and accuracy is astounding. Small wooden sailboats hold a place in my heart. Beetle Cat sailboats are my favorite.
I am just about finished with my 1958 MFG Cambridge. It has a molded fiberglass hull with a mahogany transom, bow, benches, interior. Really neat boat. Bought a brand new Suzuki 40hp outboard for it though, plan on using it daily during the season.
I love my wooden boats, skin on frame and wood composite kayaks. I actually built a cedar strip kayak, a Baidarka , a stitch and glue kayak and a 22foot wooden Ozark John Boat for floating our rivers and streams.
I just built a wooden stitch and glue. The only benefit I can see to making your own is if you want it to have unique features you cannot find in any local boats that you have access too. In my case I wanted it to be extremely tiny to fit on a car roof rack. Stitch and glue boats take endless hours to make but the end result is totally worth it. I sell the plans for my boat design on my site for only 15 bucks and it took me about a month to design and a month to build. The cost ended up being around 500 bucks.
Only a month to build - that's pretty cool!
Intriguing! Wow! looking forward to the next episodes Wayne!
I built the Passage Maker Dinghy from Chesapeake Light Craft. It was fun and not overly challenging. Highly recommend them!
That’s cool!
I built a 15 ft wooden mud boat for duck hunting. It’s lighter than most aluminum boats, and with a Kevlar and glass bottom it is supremely durable and handles rocks and logs well. Additionally being able to customize all the dimensions has made it much more versatile than a factory aluminum job boat.
Thanks @Wayne the Boat Guy! I have been following Chesapeake Light Craft for some time. I am planning to build a boat after I retire next year. My dad built a 14-foot plywood and fiberglass boat in the late 50's.
Their kits look to be very straightforward - the biggest hurdles seem to be time and space to do it
I built my CLC Peeler Skiff when I was 68. It was a wonderful experience. I'll be 77 this summer and I still enjoy using her.
@@dickdowdell5813 Thank you! What kind water do you use your Peeler Skiff on (salwater - bay, inshore, etc, or lakes/rivers)? That is what I am thinking about building as well
@@johnswofford599 We use our Peeler Skiff on Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island. She lives on a saltwater mooring in a cove on the Bay a few hundred yards from our eldest daughter's home. We use her for fishing and just messing about out in the open Bay.. She's sturdy, handles well, and inspires confidence.
We gave her a workboat finish, like the Quohog skiffs I used as a boy, so she requires virtually no maintenance other than a wet sponge and anti-fouling paint below the waterline. Modern one-part polyurethane marine paint is amazingly durable.
@@dickdowdell5813 Cool, thank you!
I have built a few stitch and glue plywood boats now, and I really like them. They are much lighter than fiberglass, and when encapsulated in epoxy, they require little maintenance other than paint touch ups.
These are very different to wooden boats of old, that were leaky and heavy and required endless maintenance.
CLC is a great choice if you do decide to build.
Yeah they seem to be quite light and durable
My first boat was an Olympic Finn sailboat built out of mahogany. It was a 15 foot racing dinghy built in Poland. It was a great boat to learn on because it only had one huge cat rigged sail and was very responsive to the tiller. The only drawback was it could not hold more than 2 people and was really designed for 1 person to sail it.
Cool!
CLC boats are really nice, love Pocketship!
Very neat Wayne, a more affordable small stylish boat for us common folks.
We have a plywood Phil Bolger Idaho, and it is an amazing hand made boat. I’m addicted to boats now. I especially like the unusual plywood boats.
I built a wooden rowboat many years ago in Florida. But I am going to visit CLC this week and pick up a model like you have and take a whack at it. Cheers and thanks Wayne!
Very cool! We'll have a race to see who builds theirs first - but I already know you'll win!
@@WayneTheBoatGuy I doubt it!
Great segment. wooden boats ride very smooth on the bay. i had a friend that had a diesel center mounted engine and it rode great. i might have to stop by Chesapeake Light Craft in Annapolis. Its about 35 miles north.
I'm looking at building a wooden boat in the next couple of years. I've been seriously considering the Peeler Skiff. Either that or one of the smaller, simpler designs from Glen-L.
I just finished building a Pygmy Murrelet 4PD this past summer, and the stitch and glue method is great! Too bad that Pygmy Boats is no more, but I've head great things about Chesapeake Light Craft.
I bought an older wooden Pacific Dory style boat because it was basically free. It was no speed demon with its 25hp outboard but it was a great layout and very fishable.
I would have loved to keep it but I'm by no means a woodworker and the Pacific NW climate would have disintegrated her. Passed her along to a fellow fisherman and dory boat builder
The Lumberyard Skiff…by Old Wharf Dory is going to be my next boat project. I’ve completely restored a 15’ StarCraft and honestly all the time I spent, I could’ve build a really nice and slightly more capable boat (the LYS 16). It has a pronounced bow to take big waves at displacement speeds. It’s designed to be quick to build, durable, and cheap.
I am 99% sure you can stop your membership at any time. Since the boats are their rentals, I am sure they coordinate a way to bring you back if you break down, I think our local one reserves in half day increments, so you'd use two reservation slots to reserve a boat for the whole day. Many locations are only sunup to sundown as well but I'm sure a local franchise could provide more info.
I ordered the plans for the LYS also. I haven’t started it yet because I don’t have a place to build it. I actually met Walter Baron, the designer of the Lumberyard Skiff, and he suggested building a model of the boat first. I’m hoping to do that this summer.
Wayne, your channel is so interesting . Love your presentation as well.
Thank you!!
I went to the website after this just to check it out lol. I already have 2 boats and 2 kayaks but I’m half tempted to try to talk my wife into letting me buy a kit. Would be a fun summer project for me and my son.
You might want to check out the Jimmy Skiff II because you can build it as a rowboat, sailboat, or powerboat that works with a small outboard or trolling motor. The sail kit is optional but it could be a neat learning experience in a lot of ways!
Those have tons of character and the hull design is so old that it has to be nice on the water.👍
9:00 what a nice little punt fer a trolling motor
Greetings from southern Ontario Canada my family has 2 wooden boats one is cedar strip and the other is mahogany both are built by hand
Very neat!
Having owned and lived on a 34' wooden Bahama Sloop for 4.5 years, I can say it is an adventure. I bought the boat around 1987, it was made in 1957 by 2 expert's eyes best guess it was made by the Albury boats in the Bahama, (British Loyalist who settled in Bahama back in the day or so they said), this guess was based on the equality and precision of the wood working and materials. One of the opinion who was the best informed one was a "Ship Wright" named Red Hughes who was the best in the South Florida area. She was a Carvel Planked, Long Leaf Yellow Pine probably over Oak, there were 2 sections of plank that were replaced with Philippine Mahogany cause it was the best available then and there. The craftmanship and work just for that little task was insane. Red (the shipwright) was the best, his resume was a fat photo album with pictures of Trumpy Yachts (nothing to do with the political figure, google Trumpy yachts if you like) and included work he did on The Calypso (one of the several iteration of the mans boat an early one that was obviously wooden. Red re-caulked the entire boat (not caulking like you buy at the hardware google calking carvel planked wooden boats). The work was done a Nuta's boat yard Miami River and there was a Cuban fisherman with his two boys (men in their 20's or 30's) and he came over with his sons so they could see Red caulking, (apparently there is an art to this and when it is done right the sound is quite unique) the fisherman said he heard the sound and stopped the work they were doing on their own boat so his boys could see what a master caulker is like. The story is too long but, if you are talking a "real" wooden boat, strap in your going for a ride. Wonderful thing called life and experiencing it is the only way to go.
Yeah there's still some people around who are building and repairing those real wooden boats. Certainly very different than these and a whole lot more work!
That model has me very interested
2:08 looks like a white sails racing rowwing skiff, they glide alone real easy and rather fast , seen one fella goin 8.8 knots, and pulling away from my in my Cape boat,
AWESOME TOUR OF THE WOODEN BOAT FACTORY. MAHALO!
Harbor freight sells "angle grinders". They spin much faster than a drill. They will get the job done faster. Kudos for recommending the safety glasses.
This is great Wayne !I'm seriously concerning purchasing the larger outboard motor design to build myself over next winter !
When I was there I also got a closer look at that one - the "Peeler Skiff" which I hope to try out later this spring!
@@WayneTheBoatGuy looking forward to it ! Thanks
My dad and fellow fireman built a flat bottom square end boat back in the 60s. I caught my first trout out of it
I just had a cedar-strip 14-foot boat built the summer by gisler Brothers in powassan Ontario
Very interesting. Thank you. B
Love them
That teardrop is sooooo nice! I’d buy one of those but boy that sounds like a complicated build! 😬
The crew at CLC aren't just good designers, they're excellent engineers. Their kits are as easy to build as they are beautiful. Their manuals, with photos, are excellent and their Builders Forum is a great source of knowledge and help.
Working on my second, the hardest part is designating space to work in. The most expensive part of boat ownership is parking it.
Yeah that can be tricky!
Great subject video here - very cool. Kinda maybe, thinking about it. At 65, semi retired, I wonder what I’m capable of… of course, I tell myself, you’ve built line control, and RC airplanes before (30,40years ago) you should be able to do this🤔sheesh, I think I’ll wait to see if you build that model boat or not.
Many of the people who build these are retired - but it is certainly a time commitment!
Wooden boats are my favorite choice of construction. Outside of kit boats I don’t know of any production wooden boats. Most production fiberglass boats are not as stiff as a wooden boat which will make a difference in a rough sea.
Yeah I'm sure there's a few wooden boat builders still around, but I bet it's a very expensive option compared to kit boats.
@@WayneTheBoatGuy I’m not sure how the prices compare, if someone wants a wooden boat as a kit or buys the plans to build one it is likely they haven’t found the boat they desire. So no price comparison exits. There are many production ho-hum boates being sold that lack character or style that any wooden boat will stand out. Wayne, be careful you may have been enticed to try a wooden boat build yourself! Hey it could be worse you haven’t taken to aircraft yet!
I've built 2 wooden boats. They both were turned into pieces of furniture by their buyers. I still have plans for the Glen-L Peewee. One of these days. lol
Old Chris craft boats are beautiful
I got 8woodne dory's but all have some fiberglass over then for just a little extra toughness
That should also make the wood last a lot longer!
@@WayneTheBoatGuy it helps, and if the wood resides to give up the ghost, you still got a boat to work with
I have owned a boat most of my life all but one was a wooden boat from my first one a12 ft with out board to a 1953 53 foot wooden Chris Craft with twin 440 Chrysler v 8s .now that i am retired im thinking of maybe getting another cruiser .and going electric or possibly diesel electric.
I have owned 5 wooden boats in my younger years and they were OK.If I were to have a wood boat today it would need to be near new! High Upkeep
Wayne Question you did a vid on marine canvas snaps a while back.I went to our local Bass pro shop bought their (bass pro) marine grade 47 piece kit.replaced 8 and all 8 snaps pulled through their Taiwan made base's Where to buy Quality snaps??
I bought mine on Amazon - and I probably bought some of the cheapest ones. There’s a lot of variables - condition of canvas, type of punch, how hard we hit it, size of hole in canvas etc. I hope you get it sorted!
3:25 I got four like this one 3 them over 24' long and close to 10 fee wide
Really great episode! Thanks for taking us into their shop, it’s pretty fascinating. I think wood boat kits don’t get a lot of attention because of the stigma they have of being fragile. A stitch and glue hull can be sealed to make a cartop pond boat or layered on with enough fiberglass to essentially make a seaworthy mold less fiberglass boat- a lot of options with wood boats.
Thanks! Yeah I had been intrigued by these boats for a while and really wanted to take a deeper dive.
Great video, Wayne! I really enjoyed the tour of the boat kit factory; their kit systems seem intriguing. I can't wait to see you build the scale kit, and who knows, there might be a boat kit build in you near future!
Thanks 👍
10:35 it's all about how pretty you want the boat you build you self to be
Just my opinion, but if it be mine for green crab, it be pretty rough but a good paint, but if it's to be my toy, I mean it's be twice the time and effort
If you like fishing comfortably, and do not need to go too far,a round bilged carvel or clinker boat with a decent keel, will look after you. Stable and quiet with little slap at anchor,the best bet for inshore fishing. I do not know anything about ply wood boats but that one seems noisy.
If you keep your boat in the water and do not fish miles offshore, think about a traditional planked boat.
All the plywood boats seem to have a bit of noise - not unlike an aluminum boat.
Fellow boat guy here. It looks like you are local. I'm from Deale
Nice.
Looks like a ton of fun. I've been meaning to drive to Annapolis and check them out. Wish I had more time to get into a project like this.
In the 1980s I did have a 26' christ craft with a Chevy V8 , velvet drive transmission ! Great boat, the wood was rotting , back then there was no high material to fix it! Sorry I sold it!
Yeah that was often the downside to wood
Wooden boats when well build are the most beautiful boats on earth yes I love wooden boats the most But they are pricy n a little expensive to maintain But worth it
I built a 12.5 x48" wood foam and fiberglass boat. About 180lbs and unsinkable, quiet, and tons of storage. 1k in materials at the time of the plandemic. Two weeks to build it. 6 hp Suzuki. Runs 15mph empty.
That was time well spent!
If you dont want your 1969 or 1973 Boston whaler which is unsinkable then I'll take it and place some TLC into it .
I also like wooden boats as well for the beauty in the grain of the wood .
Chesapeake wooden boats are fantastic In Annapolis 👍
Damn spell check and my proof reading 😔
I may consider your offer sometime!
Nothing rides the water like a wooden boat. They are work to keep
I’ve been aware of Chesapeake Light Craft for several years, I’m still trying to work up the nerve to attempt to build one.
I think that’s a big step for lots of people
Have you seen the price on the New Mercury Avator 7.5e? Man! So disappointing. I was actually considering getting one if it was up to $2k but man, they went overboard.
Yeah I saw they were about $3,500 - that's steep.
4:48 sounds like someone made fiberglass planks instead of wood?
The plywood is very thin and basically a just support for the layers of fiberglass. It was a bit surreal because looking at that hull up close it was impossible to tell it is wood because there's several layers of fiberglass inside and out.
I have been over 50 miles out at sea in a wooden bout on a fishing trip.
The wooden boat community is quite large.
You'd be surprised the amount of people that would rather just buy the wooden dinghy over building it. I don't know why retail of wooden boats in America basically stops at the kit stage.
I think there just isn't enough of a market for it because the labor costs would make them much more costly than aluminum or plastic which can be manufactured with significantly less hours of manual labor.
@@WayneTheBoatGuy cost of labour? This is the age of robots (or at least not paying them), a fully finished wooden boat should be the cheapest kind of hull.
I'm working on this at the moment in Australia but I got to franchise to America sooner rather than later.
rip Jeff Spira
Upkeep would probably be a nightmare!
I’m thinking if it’s deeply encased in glass and epoxy resin it shouldn’t be nearly as bad as a traditional wooden boat.
We built a CLC Peeler Skiff in 2014. There is absolutely no more maintenance on a resin and fiberglass encapsulated plywood boat than there is on a plain fiberglass boat. The epoxy resin used is more durable than the cheaper polyester resin used on most commercially built molded fiberglass hulls. Modern polyurethane marine paints looks like gelcoat and and seem to be almost as durable.
Our Peeler Skiff lives on a saltwater mooring in New England from May thru October and still looks almost brand new. The only maintenance has been a thorough cleaning with a sponge every Spring, a coat of Turtle Wax on the outer hull, and a fresh coat of antifouling paint below the waterline.
Flat iron skiff...plans abound for free!!
Would I Consider A Wooden Boat?
Yes I have owned wood boats before
I like wooden boats
I would love to build a wood boat particularly one called a nova scotian dory
It a Grand Banks type dory
I live in South Louisiana and few would even know what a grand banks dory even is
Wood boats can be a art of craftsmen
Maybe wood might not be the absolute best most modern material
That has nothing to do with anything anyway :)
Yes I would own a wood boat
I’m just worried about spending $4k on something that’s going to rot lol
That's a good point. I took a good look at some of these that have been around and used for several years and they seem to be holding up well.
Quite frankly, your money and time is better spent rebuilding the Whaler. What needs to be done to that hull you've got is not that bad at all. A restored Whaler is a very desirable boat that will hold its resale value. That being said, the CLC Peeler Skiff is a good looking boat. If you build it, you're building it for yourself and I wouldn't expect much in the way of resale value.
Good points!
It's not always about the $$$
I've got wood boats for you ;)
Boats are made from wood, bathtubs are made from plastic.🐮🦆☮️
Any idea who sells larger power boats? Love the website linked but they are all so small. Looking more for 18 ft
Yeah I don't know of any kits for wooden powerboats larger than their Peeler Skiff
T o much work
They are pretty nice wood boat kits they sell. Me I get my kicks restoring older boat then using them. If I were 20 yr. younger I would get a kit and put one together. Great video Wayne. But then the Peeler Skiff looks pretty interesting.
There is something satisfying about being out on the water in something you've worked on!
Wow... that showroom was like taking a step into a time machine. I grew up not far from Peshtigo, WI, home of Thompson boats. (The fire museum has a room dedicated to the Thompson Brothers) Wood boats are like fly fishing. It's a commitment.
I an seriously thinking about building their Southwest Dory. I want build it as a solar electric powered motor launch (600-800 watts of solar canopy) with a EPropulsion 3.0 Pod motor. Should have a nice hull speed around 6.0-7.5 mph and with a 100 48v battery about 3-4 hours of run time at a reasonable speed.
That sounds like a great project!
I've been thinking about building one, they have a certian class about them
They really do
I love wooden boats; not easy to come about; but will love to have one for fishing 16 feet and very comfortable to move around and seat on.
It sounds to me as if the Chesapeake Light Craft Peeler Skiff might be perfect for you. We love ours. She's a lovely stable platform for fishing.
Did that as a kid! Too much maintenance! I had to slow down in small waves! Paint every two years! Every time, I bumped dock I lost a chip of wood! Never Again!!! "Paint stripping a hull, try it!" lol
I guess that was a traditional wooden boat and not one that is encapsulated with resin and fiberglass.
@@WayneTheBoatGuy I had to deal with 4 boats one was a 32 foot cypress skiff! Yes that new modern stuff looks good! At the end of the day you might just be making your own glass boat! lol
I would love to have a wooden boat , that's what I want, a proper boat.
Keep in mind they require indoor storage
NO
I get it - they're a big project and only fit the needs of certain boaters
Ughh nasty hat.. A wooden boat damages easily
I agree and its been mentioned before its pretty gross
Not when encapsulated with epoxy and fiberglass…
@@Webcrawler45 True and you would now have a fiberglass boat
Nasty but its just faded into a dirt color. Yeah too many issues with a wooden boat a Whaly boat is 10 thousand times more durable and is unsinkable
Ok - I'll get rid of the hat!
I built a wooden boat back in my early 20s, stitch and glue type, it was a lot of fun and it lasted me about 15 years before I gave it to my uncle to use on his farm pond. It lasted another 5 years before it was lost to the elements. But I thought it was well worth the effort and time.
20 years - that's a good run for any boat!