Category: Boat build

I like to say we can make anything in wood David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon On a quiet day in Autumn I dropped by the boat to spend a few hours shaping the breast hook. The breast hook is a triangular shaped piece that joins the starboard and port sides together at the bow. […]

Team dubl duck removes the copper stitches and prepare the fibreglass sheets for the inside.

Chris and Reece clean the interior and then royally screw up the bow epoxy fillet.

Time to epoxy the laps on the outside and learn about chemistry.

Dublduck is levelled, tightened and then upturned in preparation for gluing.

The boat is finally stitched together which finishes the first stage of the boat build.

The dory begins to take shape and come alive. Chris and Reece stitch on the second layer of side planks.

Today we start stitching the side planks, hull and bulkheads together.

Chris builds a 1/8 scale of the Northeast Dory to understand how we build the real boat.

I picked Chris up from home and we headed down along the coast filled with optimism and joi de vie. The sun was out, the skies blue and the sea was calm with a steady easterly pushing offshore. Quick stop for coffee and onto the site to confirm if our blue tarpaulin had done the […]