CONTENTS Part 1 APPROACHING THE PROJECT Why Wood? 9 Cold-moulded Hulls 10 Selecting an Appropriate Design 14 Part 2 PREPARATION AND MATERIALS Building Spaces and Timber Storage 19 Building Bases 22 Hand Tools 24 Power Tools 28 Building Sequence 31 How Thick, Wide and Close? 34 Building Moulds or Shadow Sections 40 Veneer, Sawn Timber and Plywood Laminates 43 Planking with Mixed Woods 46 Part 3 LAMINATING AND FASTENING The Laminating Process 48 Bending Wood 51 Glues 53 Metal Fastenings with Glue 55 Preparation for Gluing 56 Stapling and Strapping 57 Metal Fastenings 60 Bedding and Sealing Compounds 62 Part 4 BUILDING THE BACKBONE AND HULL SHELL Backbone Construction 65 Planking Dimensions and Direction 77 Planking Procedure 78 Combined Strip-plank and Cold-moulded Construction 82 Frameless Construction 83 Part 5 FRAMES, FLOORS AND BEAMS Turning Over the Hull 85 Bent Framing Timbers 88 Laminated Frames 91 Steel Frames 94 Aluminium Frames 96 Stringers 98 Wooden Floors 102 Metal Floors 105 Beams 107 Part 6 FROM DECK TO KEEL Plywood Decks 112 Cold-moulded Decks 116 Hull Finishing 120 Bulkheads and Pillars 122 Building Up a Fin Keel 129 Engine Installation 132 Coachroof and Cockpit Coamings 138 Deck Fittings and Furniture 142 Tillers 143 Part 7 REINFORCEMENT AND REPAIRS Carbon Fibre 145 Repairs to Cold-moulding 147 Part 8 STRIP-PLANKING Technique and Materials 151 Simplifying the Work 155 Procedure for Strip-planking 156 Repairing Strip-planking 159 Photographs 161-178 Part 9 REFERENCE SECTION Boatbuilding Woods 179 Circular Saw Blades 185 Bibliography 186 Suppliers and Sources of Technical Information 187 |