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teleman

Tue Sep 04 2012, 02:24am

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Hello Everybody,
Well I am going to give it a go at building a Maryland Crabbing Skiff out of Chapelle’ book American Small Sailing Craft. I do not have his book on Crabbing Skiffs. But I will do my best with what I have to work with.
The model will be made strickly from basswood. I will be painted the skiff. Now I am not sure what the paint sheeme would be at this time. Other then the majority color will be white. If anyone has any info or a picture or two showing this I would be eternally grateful. It has been very hard trying to find vintage pictures of this type of skiff. I decided to do without a building board. I will construct the boat botton…adding the center keel…and cutting out the center board slot.
I will then add the chines. I then will add the stem n stern posts, with stiffeners so my planks will have a bit more material to adhere to . Then the starboard and port hull planks will be added. To add the slight bow to the boat bottom, I will add the thwarts that show assist in bowing the boat bottom to give it that customary slight upward bow. It should work ok.
To keep it the 14 to 16 inches length, which is the size models I have be building lately it will be at 5/8th scale. Since these little skiffs were in the 15 to 20 foot range…

So here we go. AND PLEASE IF YOU SEE ANY MISTAKES I AM CREATING PLEASE LET ME KNOW!!!

Remarks and questions are very welcomed….

[ Edited Thu Jul 04 2013, 12:53am ]

teleman

Wed Sep 05 2012, 04:31am

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Joined: Tue Nov 29 2011, 05:32am
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a few pic's to show progress to date....

Mike 41

Wed Sep 05 2012, 12:42pm

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Joined: Fri Feb 05 2010, 10:37pm
Posts: 1227

Hi Mario,

The skiff is coming along quite nicely. 5/8 scale is a bit unusual, one of the standard scales might have been easier to work to.

Mike

teleman

Wed Sep 05 2012, 02:49pm

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Joined: Tue Nov 29 2011, 05:32am
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Hey thanks Mike,
i know its kinda wierd. but from chapelle' book the maryland skiff had a jib sail on it also. so these boats ranging from 14 to 24 feet in length and a jib sail. the model will be about 16 to 17 inches in length. this is a small boat do not want to get crazy with the over all length. i do have for a bigger boat. but not these little ones.
most of my little boats average this length. they fit quite nicely in a display cabinet. that way i do not have to build indivitual cases for everyone.....there is a method to my madness!LOL!

[ Edited Thu Sep 13 2012, 05:03am ]