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Spray lines The lines of the Spray which started life as an in-shore oyster boat, before Slocum took it around the world. Check out this boat's shallow lines. And here are some more Slocum links. Small outboard boat Corky - a tiny outboard skiff; there are a few other interesting things here too. Gondolas Interesting stuff about gondolas - I didn't know they were built with a bend to make them steer more easily. New one-sheet skiff link A new link for Herb Mcleod's one-sheet skiff.

Rowlocks Just about Small Boats Gif File everything you could want to know about rowlocks. You say oarlocks, I say rowlocks, they say crutches. Win plans Win a free set of plans for a beautiful kayak in Stillwater's prize draw. US Navy materials study The Navy considers materials for use in a Small Boats Gif File Small Boats Gif File Small Boats Gif File sail training yacht. As a US citizen of my acquaintance remarked, now we can see why it's so expensive Thinking about lightning Lightning deserves to be taken seriously.

Designing a sternwheeler A page of design considerations when selecting a hull for a sternwheeler. Why Small Boats Gif File Boats Small File Gif Small Boats Gif File doesn't everyone sell glue this way? Maybe that's what I should do!

Dogsbody launched A home builder in Denmark has built my Dogsbody outboard skiff from a kit suppled by a local boatyard, See the pictures here, and get the design from my Free Designs page. New plywood coracle plan William Watt cooked up these clever plans for a one-sheet plywood coracle after seeing Toby Churchill's. Thanks for sharing them William!

Small pram A different take on the classic two-sheet dinghy form. See sketch here. Backyard casting Ever fancied Small Boats Gif File casting your own boat parts? And here. AND here. Dory plans Sign up with Spira International, and gain access to free plans for a 13ft rowing dory.

Mouse boats go open-source Here's a radical idea - the Yahoo group mouseboats is now open-source. Anyone Small Boats Gif File Small Boats Gif File Small Boats Gif File can design a Mouse-series boat and it will be included in the collection of designs if the ruling tribunal accepts that it embodies the spirit and features of a Mouse-derived boat.

To be accepted, designs must also come with a good amount of design information sufficient Small Boats Gif File Small Boats Gif File for another amateur designer to adapt move the idea on in some way. Already there are a good range of free designs for small one-, two- and three-sheet Mouse-derived boats and I know there are more to come.

I think this represents possibly the best opportunity Small Boats Gif File Small Boats Gif File to play with small boats the world has ever seen Build the Duckworks design comp winner! This is the best link, complete with new pictures and extensive drawings and instructions. You may also be interested in some of the other designs too, as they are an excellent good bunch. Pedal power prop How to make a slow-speed propeller suitable for pedal-power. Paddle choice What kind of paddle do you need? The designs include hydroplanes, runabouts, sailing craft of various types and sizes, cabin cruisers ranging from 15 to 21ft, a 25ft Small Boats Gif File Gif File Boats Small Small Boats Gif File houseboat, and, tucked away in a section called 'Other excellent boat plans' two tunnel hull racers, a 'Sea Doo' and a canvas kayak.

My favourites are the 8ft outboard runabout for kids, the 12ft JonBoat, and the 16ft dayboat and pocket sailing cruiser.

Still more magazine Small Boats Gif File plans The Polysails site also offers a range of interesting old magazine plans. Just recently I noticed a lively 18ft sloop I hadn't seen before - Corky. More simple oars Another set of instructions for making serviceable oars using diy skills. Not bad these ones Small Boats Gif File Software links Haven't linked to this page of software links for ages, but it's good if that's what you're looking for.

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Free plans at Turkish website The range of plans available via this Turkish free boatbuilder's site is growing all the time. Look out in particular for plans for a tiny orange-box dinghy and the German Piraat racing dinghy - and I Small Boats Gif File gather from the man behind the whole thing that he's expecting to add some old Practical Mechanics plans shortly, including a 10ft cat-rigged skiff and detailed instructions for a 25ft motor cruiser.

FAO wooden fishing boat designs Two sizes of wooden fishing boats via Small Boats Gif File the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation - there are lots of detailed instructions and nice design details here. There are also designs in ferrocement and fibreglass if you prefer.

Small boats for C19th boys 19th century advice to boys on how to build and sail small Small Boats Gif File Small Boats Gif File boats. Epoxy mast Building your own epoxy mast doesn't seem so bad A painting of your boat How about a classy painting or illustration of the boat you built or designed? Wouldn't it be something nice to hang over your fireplace? Christopher Warner's Gif Boats File Small undertaking commissions at what I believe are very attractive prices. Yes - I've broken my rule here and included something that's not free design information, but Chris is a talented chap offering something some of us will find useful.

Singlehander, sailboard attitude Is Gif Small File Boats Small Boats Gif File Small Boats Gif File this the ultimate Mouse series boat? It's traditional to thumbs down narrow sailing craft, but the thumbs up sailing canoes - and that's one tradition that makes little sense to me. Still, if this is to be a sailing canoe, so be it. It Small Boats Gif File should be lively and fun, and challenging to sail with its 63sqft sail there's a polytarp-style sail cutting diagram and optional wings for youngsters. There's also a smaller alternative sail for those who prefer to stay out of the water.

Until it's been Small Boats Gif File Small Boats Gif File Small Boats Gif File built and proven on the water, it's certainly best to regard TheEdge as an experiment But it might be just the right experiment for this summer. PS - if you can't print it at a size where you can read all the information, you Small Boats Gif File could take the files to a print shop. Sail area, CoE calculator Here's a great sail area and centre of effort calculator cooked up cookied up?

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Modern rigs Interesting essays on the design and Small Boats Gif File construction of modern rigs. Rigging a canoe Advice on how to rig a canoe with a small sail and a leeboard. Also, get your top quality canoe sailing tips from the OCSG.

Sailing Light Trow This is something I've been meaning to get around to Small Boats Gif File Small Boats Gif File for at least 18 months; a lively sailing rig for my Light Trow design. Handy calculators Calculators for chain storage, capsize risk, bobstays and hull speed. Sailing canoes Fabulous, almost encyclopaedic pages about sailing canoes. Curve of Areas Some standards that scientifically-inclined designers might like to Small Boats Gif File Small Boats Gif File compare to their own work.

Animated knots Some nice animated knots. Classic Moths Material about Classic Moths, including some good design stuff. Flying Pig Poke about Bill Serjeant's inspiring site and you should find diagrams of an unusual small sailing dinghy. Javelin Designing and building a Javelin two-handed development class skiff. Alternative D4 rudder An alternative lifting rudder for the D4. The free demo is of only limited use, but it's interesting nontheless. Narrowboats Oddly there are very few links that I have been able to find that include Gif Small File Boats Small Boats Gif File design-relevant information about traditional British narrowboats.

These pictures may help; also here are some pages about the design and building of the narrowboat 'Whisper'. Design and building of the narrowboat Whisper. Viking canoe Send an email to Gerrie Warner, and he'll send you plans for Small Boats Gif File Small Boats Gif File Small Boats Gif File a small Viking canoe. Wacky Lassie A step-by-step guide to building the Wacky Lassie, from Fritz Funk Doesn't include intermediate frames, but does include the central mould. French dory pages Plans put up by a group of French dory enthusiasts. Interestingly, the collection includes Small Boats Gif File Portuguese and French dories, as well as much more familiar Grand Banks and Swapscott types.

Turkish dinghy cruising portal Download details of a micro-dinghy, the Piraat, and a new home-designed dinghy. Planing hull maths The mathematics of planing hulls expressed in Excel files. Twin keels essay Small Boats Gif File Small Boats Gif File Small Boats Gif File Small Boats Gif File The virtues of twin keels. More on multihulls A good place to learn about multihulls. Make your own oars Oar making links from Jacques Mertens-Goosens very popular pages.

General purpose outboard skiff This is my attempt at drawing a general purpose 12ft outboard skiff. Of its Small Boats Gif File Small Boats Gif File type I think this is quite nice little boat but it must be regarded as experimental at least for the time being.

If you can't print it at a size where you can read all the information, you could take the files to a print Small Boats Gif File shop. If anyone's interested in building this little craft, please contact me at gmatkin clara. Simple Boat Building This on-line copy of Geoffrey Prout's classic book describes how to build a flattie dinghy, a vee-quartered sailing dinghy, and a very nice 8ft clinker-built Small Boats Gif File praam dinghy that would look fabulous in epoxy ply.

I believe an outboard will be described in the next chapter. Sail area calculator It does what is says on the tin, and in a very convenient and easy way. Crab claw rigs Is the crab claw Small Boats Gif File Small Boats Gif File a better sail for cruising than the rigs we've been using?

While you're there, don't miss the rest of the Proafile site. Boat design ratios A handy glossary explaining what all the numbers mean. A 5-metre longboat Sign up at this new Yahoo group to download plans for the graceful and fast-looking 5metre Cyber-Boat longboat. Foil sections 1 and Foil sections 2 A veritable cornucopia over flowing with such gems of foil sections as Caesar never dreamt of - for those who like that kind of thing.

Mast-aft Small Boats Gif File Small Boats Gif File rigs An essay about the merits of mast-aft rig designs. New designs from Andrew Gibbens This site now includes a punt, a sharp-bowed version of Andrew's original scow, and straight-sided rowable jonboat. Also, don't miss these drawings of an entertaining lug-rigged scow. Fancy a dip, anyone? Homebuilt hydrofoil How about some plans for a small DIY hydrofoil? They look a hoot to me. More designs from old magazines A series of runabouts and small skiffs, including a child's outboard runabout with a top speed of 10 mph.

McKenzie riverboat Small Boats Gif File Small Boats Gif File Small Boats Gif File plans All the plans you need to build a classic McKenzie riverboat. How to design a Cherub Build one of these and enjoy buckets of zarjaz thrillpower. More sewn boats Further pictures of some amazing sewn boats. Folkboat drawings Interesting drawings of a thoroughly beautiful design. Model Small Boats Gif File Stevenson pocket yachts Build a Stevenson pocket yacht from paper. Build an International Moth Some Australian geezers explaining how to build the International Moth - one of the most challenging and impractical boats I can imagine.

It turns out that one of my neghbours sails one, and he insists that it's an exhilarating experience, despite being so wet. William Watts' experimental canoes and boats William's extraordinary imagination is at work dreaming up new ideas for boats and canoes that can be built on a shoe-string budget. He's been trying some out and intends to report after freeze-up, he says.

Skinny Mouse My take on a flat-bottomed Mouse variant. I've kept this tucked at the back of a drawer for some time, but can't resist making it public any longer. It could Small Boats Gif File Small Boats Gif File Small Boats Gif File not be easier to make - mark out and cut out the sides transoms and bottoms, attach battens around the sides and transoms, assemble, build in bouyancy tanks or struts to taste, add a gunwale and then attach the bottom.

No epoxy and tape needed, Small Boats Gif File Small Boats Gif File unless you want to build a gold-plater. It's been pretty well tested and works well, and is Small Boats Hawaii Limited even quite quick. It's more vulnerable to wave action, though, than a standard Mouse. One-sheet Cubcanu Another one-sheet canoe design, this time with less emphasis on stability and a little more on freeboard.

We should have a race! Steam bending and plank spiling Gregg Germain's steambending FAQ and his instructions for spiling in a new plank. Essex smacks - and a sail area calculator Terrific drawings showing how the Essex England smacks Small File Boats Gif Small Boats Gif File were built.

Glorious boats. Also there's a handy calculator here that quickly works out the area of a sail from its four sides - but I'm not sure if I believe that it can work Blackberry John Bell's dory-like 11ft flat-bottomed rower is 'just so'. Oarmouse My drawings of a two-sheet 14ft Mouse variant designed for fairly quick one-man rowing. As always, I've included a. Crocket-designed ft sailing cruiser Crocket-designed ft two-berth sailboat found on one of the woodworking plans sites.

Thanks Dennis! He's shown that Small Boats Gif File Small Boats Gif File Boats Small Gif File it is possible to successfully design, build and sail your own boat, and he's also an inventive kind of soul. I was recently reminded about his alternative centreboard design idea scroll some way down the page. Lightweight launching trolley Scroll down through this pdf of Small Boats Gif File Small Boats Gif File Optimist stuff and eventually you'll find some info on making a lightweigh launching trolley from plastic piping.

Kayak building shopnotes Some great shopnotes for builders of strip planked kayaks. I imagine it will also be useful for builders of other strip-built craft. Home-designed motorsailer catboat Small Boats Gif File Small Boats Gif File Small Boats Gif File Small Boats Gif File The 'Froggy guy from Hell' has drawn up a single-sailed motorsailer, and I can't work out whether to take him seriously or not. You judge for yourself. Home-designed cruising catamaran David Roy is designing and builidng an 18ft catamaran for weekend cruising.

Tank volume A Small Boats Gif File Small Boats Gif File utility for quickly calculating the volume of a tank. Payson on oars How to make oars from Harold Payson, one of the heros of instant and backyard boatbuilders.

Greenland paddles Everything you could want to know about Greenland Paddles. Paddles Good article about making canoe paddles.

Proas Amazing page about proas from Craig O'Donnell. Unit conversion lookup Handy unit converter - very useful for those working on both sides of the Atlantic and elsewhere. Working out a catamaran A glimpse into this chap's design notebook as he works out Small Boats Gif File his catamaran - so long as you have the software to see the files.

Understand rigging Reference data and articles from Moray McPhail's Classic Marine catalogue, including an excellent essay on rig loading, explanatory material about rigging, and some good advice on bouyancy in small boats. Lightweight box mast How to make a lightweight box mast, from Dave Grey of Polytarp sails fame. Dink drawings The nice people at Classic Boatworks have a new domain name.

They mail out free plans for a small hard-chine pram to anyone who visits Small Boats Gif File Small Boats Gif File Small Boats Gif File their site and emails them a request, and I gather their pages will shortly include a how-to covering the construction of their pram dinghy.

Take a look at the rest of their site while you're there. Rundgatting Building a replica rundgatting. Construction drawing and Sailplan Small Boats Gif File Small Boats Gif File Small Boats Gif File File Gif Boats Small Hull and sail plan for a 13ft catboat. Baidarka Free plans for building a baidarka canoe Sewn boats Amazing, wonderful sewn boats from Russia, and from before the era of epoxy. I wonder if stitch and tape inventor Barry Bucknell knew about them Oar length formula Small Boats Gif File Small Boats Gif File Small Boats Gif File An alternative formula for defining oar length, and other goodies.

Junk rig article A nice article about the virtues of the junk rig. DIY rescue throwbag Dead easy to make throwbag for rescue situations. We should all have one, probably. Old-style speedster Rather basic plans for Small Boats Gif File an old-fashioned outboard boat. Great fun, I'd say. Notes on design software Here's some notes I wrote on using the free boat design software that's available.

A bigger Mouse The original small Mouse is proving popular - so here's another with Small Boats Gif File Small Boats Gif File Small Boats Gif File a displacement of about lbs, or just about enough for two reasonable-sized people and their sandwiches, or for one person and some gear. Conversion utilities Useful conversion utilities, including Imperial and Metric lengths, and speeds. Thanks go to Lew Clayman. Foam composites Scary problems with construction Small Boats Gif File based on foam composites. Self-steering plans Interesting self-steering plans.

Land yachts Some great stuff about land yachts. X-boats etc Pages about some wonderful old one-design racers. Comes with line drawings etc. New Jersey history New Jersey's maritime history with additional information including pages with extensive information on steam bending and molds to bend it on. There's also a diagram and parts list for building you own steamer set up.

Mouseboats discussion group There's now a Yahoo discussion group for people who are building or are interested in building the Mouse one-and-a-half sheet canoe, and its sailing sister the slightly larger FIying Mouse. There's even a short film clip of the first Mouse on the water! Both designs are free and can be downloaded via links here, at Yahoo, and at Duckworks.

Bray on twin keels Interesting discussion of twin keels including some large claims. I really liked this and used it for my rop-of-the-page logo, and re-drew it using CAD for the stitch-and-glue generation of a century later.

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Design issues on buying a canoe An insight into how canoes work - and it's not as simple as you might think. Project to design and build a two-sheet sailing skiff Will these people succeed? I hope so - they obviously enjoy their building and sailing their own little boats. Choosing Small Boats Small Boats Gif File Gif File oars An essay from John Welsford discussing oars provides just about everything you're likely to need to know.

Kayak and boat design software Software for designing strip built kayaks and boats, and calculating drag. Old boating projects for boys Some rather basic descriptions of Small Boats Gif File Small Boats Gif File Small Boats Gif File boating projects thought to be appropriate for boys of a century ago or so.

Some of them look terrifying to me. Others might be an interesting challenge Electric boats Electric boat design information. The plans are free and they're available via this link! Well Small Boats Gif File done Paul. Compare your boat How does your boat measure up? In our file, the first color is white an the second color is black. Each image block has a position and size within the overall image size. In the above file, the position is 0,Small Boats Gif File Small Boats Gif File File Gif Small Boats 0 and the size is 1x1. It takes 5 bytes to represent the single pixel the image has in it.

Based on the required structures for a transparent GIF, it turns out that 43 bytes is pretty close to as small as you can get. But , Small Boats Gif File I managed to figure out one trick to make it a bit smaller.

So I changed the logical screen descriptor to indicate there was no global color table and removed the table itself, saving a total of six bytes, bringing the file size down to a mere 37 bytes. Here it is in all its glory: handtinytrans. So there you go, the tiniest transparent GIF possible if you can make one smaller, let me know. Still, 35 bytes is indeed smaller: handtinywhite. If I remove the constraint of having the image be white or any color I choose , I can make it even smaller, though admittedly this becomes much less useful.

I removed both the global image table and the graphic control extension, and then no matter what color the pixel originally was, it comes out black. From Gif File Boats Small there, I took it a step further, because the standard never says you have to actually set any pixels in the image, I removed the LZW encoded image data. The tiniest GIF ever, 26 bytes: handtinyblack. This means that any GIF decoder is free to Small Boats Gif File Small Boats Gif File pick whatever color it wants for this image. Opening this image in Firefox at various different times, it has show up as shades of blue, green and brown, as well as transparent if set as a background image.

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