Building Your Boat
Showcasing the best of our collective wisdom, Building Your Boat will organize the most informative entries and discussions by boat bloggers by stages of boat construction.
The hope is that this becomes a valuable resource that can be referenced during the building process, helping new and experienced builders avoid mistakes, minimize stress and build great boats.
If you would like to contribute to this book, simply post the content to your blog
. I'll be looking for good stuff, and will quickly add it here.
If you would like to help organize and maintain the book, let me know. I'll appreciate the help.
Thanks,
- Joe Lombardo
joe@familytimes.com Safe Boat Building
A clear article describing safety measures that smart boat builders must take when working with epoxy.
Fitting Out
Builder's get a lot of opportunities to be creative when it comes to fitting out their boats. In this section of the Building Your Boat book, we will collect links to discussions, blog entries and websites that will provide inspiration and insight into the many options.
Anchors from TexasKayakFisherman.com
A good forum discussion (reads like an article) on anchors for kayaks. It includes pictures and focuses on fishing issues.
Backbands discussion at CLCBoats.com
The folks on the CLC Builder's Forum had an informative discussion on custom built backbands. Their ideas improve both comfort and appearance of commercial options.
Custom Roof Racks - CLCBoats.com
A good discussion with lots of pictures showing different designs for custom roof racks. It seems that this is an area that builders like to get creative. Check out some of the great designs.
Glossary
This dynamic and collaborative glossary will help new boat builders understand and learn the many different terms associated with boating and boat building.
Words in this glossary are marked in all posts with a small blue question mark. Clicking that question mark takes a reader to the definition of that term.
Definitions can include urls to articles, sites and pictures if it will help the reader understand what is being discussed.
Read the glossary.