There's a lot of things that can drag me away from the Ranger project, and this time it's because I've been putting together a video on Traditional Clinker Construction. The genesis of this was in the year 2000 when we filmed a Summer School class building 2 clinker dinghies, a snub and a stem dinghy. The footage has been laying in the can (actually on Mini-DV tapes) for 19 years. I finally got around to it in recent months but it's time consuming. The first half-hour of finished footage is on lofting, and because I fall well short of 100,000 subscribers to my youTube channel I can't upload anything longer than 15 minutes, so I've put it up as the first two episodes. The rest of the episodes will appear regularly probably a few months apart. I'm also compiling a book on Traditional Clinker Boatbuilding which I hope will be pretty definitive, and the plan is to have it available along with the final video episode in a bit under two years. In the meantime, reasonably thorough explanations of lofting can be found in my other books THE OPEN BOAT and WOODEN BOATBUILDING- THE SYDNEY WOODEN BOAT SCHOOL MANUALS, and the latter also contains the original manual on Building a Traditional Clinker Dinghy. Try the videos, they're not just entertainment, they're instructional and they're thorough.....but you'll still need a textbook. I was up to lofting my fifth or sixth boat before I didn't need a textbook alongside me, and I still need to refer to one for some rarer processes such as lofting sloping and curved transoms.
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AuthorIan Smith, Boatbuilder (ret'd) Archives
January 2024
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