https://youtu.be/p5SeB8RjDso Building the Bouchie Dory, Episode 7. It’s time to start building the frames for our boat. We’ll be covering this topic over two episodes. The frames provide critical lateral structure connecting the sides to the bottom of the...
Bouchie Dory BOUCHIE DORY Designed by myself, the Bouchie Dory is a scaled down interpretation of the classic Grand Banks fishing dory. The Grandbanks dories were carried stacked on-deck of coasting schooners and deployed in small fleets once the fishing grounds were...
https://youtu.be/FFmY2–pDrU We finally get on to seeing a little sawdust flying around but admittedly most of it will be at the sawmill we’ll visit. I talk a little about sawmill etiquette in this episode. Sawmills are wonderful places to visit but you can...
https://youtu.be/wzAndmuvAc4 In this lesson we take a look at some elements of full scale lofting. The previous episodes dealt with the mechanics of the lofting process so this time we just look at some of teh tools and how to get started accurately....
In our third lesson we complete our scale lofting of the Bouchie Dory. This part of the drawing is called the “body plan”. It is comprised of slices of the boat across it’s breadth and the locations of our stations. Think of it like a loaf of sliced...
