The
One-Sheet Skiff (
This is a
design of my own planning. It came about after I had built a couple of the One
Man Dinghies which although a great design they were slow to build and I have
come to dislike working with fiberglass tape and epoxy. This was first
conceived as a father son project. My son at the time was very much into
computer games and it was difficult to pry him away from the machine. Also with
computers he was used to having projects move very quickly. Boat building of a
traditional boat was just too slow to interest him. I have assembled this
design in 4 hours and have built the complete boat in 8 hours. I am posting the
plans for this project for free and ask that if you build it you send me a
photo of your completed boat. Thanks.
Update:
Click on the blue underlined
word here for plans or for
building instructions
Juan Gonzalez of San
Andres island has translated the building instructions for the
If you have trouble
following my ball point pen drawings of the One Sheet Skiff click here
for a MSWord file made up by Rick Vollman (vollman@ndak.net) or check out Brent
Brown's site listed below in the links.
For yet another form of OSS
plans Andrew Butchart (andrewb@abutchartconsulting.com)
(http://www.abutchartconsulting.com) created these .pdf and .tcw files: OneSheetSkiff.pdf
OneSheetSkiff_Bits.pdf OneSheetSkiff.tcw OneSheetSkiff_Bits.tcw If these do not work talk to Andrew
as he said he has checked them with a models that he has built from the
drawings.
Click on the highlighted
and underlined names below to see what other builders have done with the
John
Boley builds a
One-Sheet Skiff (or Big Guy in a Small Boat) and goes frogging
George
Caldwell builds an
inside chine version for his Grand child Cameron
Frank
Gundaker builds a
One-Sheet Skiff for his daughter Rachel
Ashley
Cook a fellow
dentist in
Brett
McCully turns the
David N.
Goodchild the
builder of Toad Hall wrote this article of his nephew's building an
Click for link to Howard Blackburn's site where he builds his
Finally,
a Mother / son team build an OSS See Rose and Jason's boat
The
year 2000 has seen
an almost over whelming (to me anyhow) number of
OSS's
from the second half of year 2000 even more versions of the
Rick
Bedard added
"noodles" on his gunwales to increase flotation
Brent Brown of
Click
here to see this!
What Can I say But these Boats have Wild paint jobs!
Pete
Kjeer is a mechanical engineer for Minn
Kota has built an electric version of the
Bernard Moser has built a storybook web site on his children's
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