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Boat Forum / Building / March 2005Cosine Wherry Kit
Hi all, 6 month or so lurker here making my first post to the group. Since Will Dixon has posted about his Cosine Wherry (nice job BTW Will) I thought I'd post about what I've been searching for. I got the bug to build a Cosine Wherry for fishing and pleasure rowing the first time I saw one! So I surfed the net, joined and monitored this group, and bought the book. However, for a couple of reasons, I would like to build a longer version with the expectation that it would carry more weight than the original. I saw many sites that offered complete kits, but only one that had an extended version that was not available due to limited cedar supply(?). So bacially I have two questions; first, is there an extended version offered as a kit that anybody knows about? Second, if not, how do I modify the plans to make one? TIA, Jay Check with Flounder Bay Lumber they have plans for an 18 foot I believe Brian I think that Flounder Bay is out of business. I've forgotten who sells the Cosine Wherry plans, but stretching the length a bit is not a big thing. Just increase the station spacing proportianally. I wouldn't go beyond 16'. I've never felt that the kits were a good deal for the money. If you have a table saw and a router table, milling the strips is not a big deal. The plus is that you can control unnevenness in coloration. If you insist, you can buy strips from www.noahsmarine.com or from www.newfound.com.. Call 'em. There can suggest other good designs. > Check with Flounder Bay Lumber they have plans for an 18 foot I believe > > Brian Flounder Bay boat lumber still has their web site up and I think they could answer your questions via Email. http://www.flounderbay.com/ I had visited the store/shop when I was looking to build the Cosine Wherry, got a full tour of the facilities, great folks to deal with. They had a loose leaf binder in the store with builder's names and addresses with some pictures of each finished boat if the builder provided some. Sorry to see them go. I hope someone as commited to the business takes over. Bill I think that Flounder Bay is out of business. I've forgotten who sells the Cosine Wherry plans, but stretching the length a bit is not a big thing. Just increase the station spacing proportianally. I wouldn't go beyond 16'. I've never felt that the kits were a good deal for the money. If you have a table saw and a router table, milling the strips is not a big deal. The plus is that you can control unnevenness in coloration. If you insist, you can buy strips from www.noahsmarine.com or from www.newfound.com.. Call 'em. There can suggest other good designs. <bcombs@harbornet.com> wrote in message news:1112209428.292258.41200@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com... > Check with Flounder Bay Lumber they have plans for an 18 foot I believe > > Brian > >I think that Flounder Bay is out of business. >I've forgotten who sells the Cosine Wherry plans, but stretching the length a bit is not a big thing. Just increase the station spacing proportianally. >I wouldn't go beyond 16'. I've never felt that the kits were a good deal for the money. If you have a table saw and a router table, milling the strips > is not a big deal. The plus is that you can control unnevenness in coloration. If you insist, you can buy strips from www.noahsmarine.com or from > www.newfound.com.. Call 'em. There can suggest other good designs. >> Check with Flounder Bay Lumber they have plans for an 18 foot I believe >> >> Brian Thanks guys. I have emailed Flounder bay as their website says they are still in business. Waiting on a reply. I do have table saw and router table among many other woodworking tools available to me, so that is definetly an option. If I did do it myself, do I increase ALL the stations spacing evenly? I don't remember offhand if the book Rip, Strip, and Row covers that issue though I do seem to remember that it did address lengthening (?) plus cove and beading the strips. Jay Hi If the plans had been from a 3D model ,you could just scale and chose the one you like best ,but cutting the stations and testing with a real Spline ( a long strip of wood or metal ) that the lines fit swell ,----- just do it, don't vorry as if Splines fit smooth then ofcaurse you can plank it. Still if it was a 3D design, you could ask an application to calculate "the inbetween" of two very different hulls ; yes if you have two 3D models you can morph between the two ,you could stretch and scale it do whatever youy want and then slice the waterlines ,slice the sections and have it plot full scale. Still just trust that you will learn from the experience ---- I know amatures who replaced the intire planking and most ribs in an old fishing vessel, as long as you don't try cut corners use the right materials and don't try save stupid having the trouble with bad materials ,then trust yourself not any Pony. |
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