![]() Many questions are answered in Frequently Asked Questions.You can also send check or money order to Hylan & Brown – Boatbuilders, 10 Frank Day Ln, Brooklin, ME 04616.You can see your Paypal Cart at any time by clicking the button below:.The wheelhouse serves as the captains command center for navigation. ![]() The deck arrangement is critical for seamless crab pot deployment. The engine room is the heart of the vessel, powering its operations. To order online using Paypal’s ordering system (which accepts Visa/MC/AmEx/Discover/eCheck/PayPal), please select one of the buttons below: Crab boat layouts are meticulously designed for efficiency and safety.PLANS SHEETS: On five sheets: sail plan, lines plan, construction plan, building jig, full sized patterns. To order a kit, see information from Hewes & Co.Ĭlick here to download free study plans in PDF format PLANS.Click to see more about the LITTLE CRAB kit in PDF format.There’s a nice review of LITTLE CRAB in WoodenBoat (May/June 2019). ![]() Sailing version, 9” board up, 30” board down. So, plan well, set aside enough time, and make it fun. LITTLE CRAB will make a fine father & son project (no slight intended, ladies), but take a piece of advice from an old dad – even a small boat takes time, and kids grow up fast. In the end, you will take more pride in having learned to shape a piece of wood than you will in the muscles you’ve built sanding epoxy fillets. Any time saved in avoiding temporary molds and wooden stems and chines is more than taken up in shmooing and sanding epoxy and fiberglass. This is old fashioned technology by some people’s standards – why not “stitch ‘n’ glue”? While the stitch and glue method is conceptually simple and unintimidating, it can produce inexact hull shapes, and in my experience, it is no faster and far less pleasurable than my method. However I want to take up lobster fishing full time so rather than build a cabin cruiser, Im looking into building a lobster/crab boat. The boat is intended to be built upside down over widely spaced molds set up on a ladder frame. She would also make a great boat for young adventurers light and shallow enough to be pushed off the beach (or that unseen shallow spot), simple and moderately sized rig, rewarding rowing, and good stability. She will row and tow reasonable well, and will provide reassuring stability when getting aboard.Īs a sailing boat, LITTLE CRAB will make a fine weekend camp cruiser, with room for a couple of sleeping bags when the mid-ships slip thwart is removed. LITTLE CRAB is a foot shorter than Bill’s boat, but it will still be a capacious tender for a larger yacht. He wanted a skiff with lots of stability that would be primarily powered by an electric trolling motor, but I was surprised by how well this boat rowed. Bill Page, boatbuilder and traditional marine hardware tycoon, asked for a 14′ version to use as a tender for his new power cruiser. ![]() LITTLE CRAB is a smaller version of the Chesapeake Crab Skiff I drew several years ago. This is a boat that needs NO hardware! The aim of the Wharram new Ethnic Design range is to study and understand by practical experience aspects of the design of canoe form craft from the ancient sailing world.A smaller 13′ version of the Chesapeake Crab Skiff Auxiliary propulsion is by paddle, oars or Yuloh.īy self-making everything: natural spars, sails and even hand carved deadeye blocks, her building cost is very low (the Plans give all details). Tahiti Wayfarer with her very shallow draft is a perfect boat for exploring, a great boat for use by scouts and youth groups or to be taken on a ‘Raid’. She is rigged with a crab claw sail, using rope standing rigging. She can be built as a Double Canoe with two same-sized hulls and a platform big enough to erect a two man tent on, or as an Outrigger Canoe using just one hull and a light weight log as outrigger float. This hull shape has only 8" - 20cm draft her lateral resistance comes from a fine forefoot combined with the area of the steering-paddle/side-rudder. Crossbeams and spars are made from small trees and saplings with natural forks for jaws, stripped of bark and sculpturally finished, all parts are lashed together.Īs she is likely to be used in the open sea she has a self-draining floor (large enough to sleep on) and watertight bow and stern compartments. Bottom Planking Construction begins with creating the stem, keel, skeg, and transom. All other components of the boat are constructed from materials found in nature. The Tahiti Wayfarer hull shape is derived from traditional dug-out canoes from Tahiti and Samoa, but built in stitch & glue ply/epoxy. ![]()
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