First skipjack pics

[wagonmaker]

Good evening all.............It's been a slow go but here are a few. We have been busy caring for aged & ill parents & I haven't put many hours into the boat yet, but hopefully that will change. Everyone thanks for all your input in answering questions I have posted. Hopefully this works..........if it doesn't have a blade & make sawdust it is more challenging for me. :shock:

[Frank Hagan]

Hey, looks like you're making great progress! Going "3-D" is always a milestone because those flat wood parts start looking like a boat.

[Greg Luckett]

This looks a lot like a Weekender. How much difference is there between the two?

Looking good! Thanks for the neat pics.

[Frank Hagan]

I'm trying to remember the Weekender history ... I think the Skipjack was the first of that design, and its something like 12'. Peter Stevenson had it in a book "Sailboats You Can Build" or something like that. Then the Weekender was in Popular Mechanics or Popular Science, and was a 16' version using a lot of the same construction techniques. Then the Vacationer was the big brother of them all, at 19'. There was even a 24' version that never made it past the sea trial stage.

If I remember all that correctly ... maybe Mike will see this and chime in with any details I have wrong.

[Mike Pennington]

I believe you will enjoy the Skipjack, Wagonmaker. I sailed Mark Gudschinsky's Weekender along side his daughter Laura's, Skipper (Skipjack), this last summer at her launching.

Even with a temporary quick rigged sail, the Skipjack wasn't too far behind, and by the time we were near the Gudschinsky Marina, Laura had figured out the boats quirks to give me a run for my money. :wink:

[Greg Luckett]

That is a great pic of Laura and her Skipjack, Alexander and his Amphora, and the Weekender. Is that Mark wading ashore?

I made this the wallpaper of the day on my pc.

[Mike Pennington]

Greg,

Yep! That be the pirate, I mean, the Admiral of the Fairbanks Fleet.

I'm the dark shadow and the pink blur is my four year old granddaughter. :wink: The pictures were taken this last summer on Harding Lake.

Next I'll be building her a boat :roll: Well, I hope.

[wagonmaker]

Thanks again guys..........it is a fun project. Maybe the next pics will be a little better quality. It was my first attempt with my new digital camera & also at posting them. I had thought I was posting them chronologically & with some descriptions, don't know what I did with that.

I am not sure of the differences between the skipjack & the stevenson's designs other boats, other than size. They all seem to be of the same basic construction. Actually I came close to building the vacationer to start with but decided it made more sense to start with a smaller boat. I read advice from most designers encouraging just that. This site as well as all its builders are a great resource for a beginner such as myself.

I have been building since I graduated from high school about 32 years ago :shock: , but never a boat. An uncle got me into carpentry at age 18 & sponsored me into the local union as an apprentice carpenter after a summer of " paying my dues" as a laborer on a jobsite with some journeymen carpenters. I learned alot that summer for sure & it wasn't necessarily all about building trades :shock: . Anyway, hopefully I will have a few more pics soon & learn the posting process better.All the comments are appreciated & Laura's skipjack looks real nice.......

Oh by the way. I am using some less than traditional methods of construction for some aspects of the boat. I won't elaborate until I have a bit more progress & take some more pics. It may have be already used or have been tried by some , I just haven't read of it anywhere. It's just something I believe will work nicely for me & this boat anyway. I haven't changed any thing in the design at all other than adding a forward deck hatch, it wasn't called for in the design plans......just thought it might be handy. I guess that is one of the many good things of building yourself a boat, you can make it yours... .

Merry Christmas to all... Wayne

[Greg Luckett]

Wayne,

An old boat building pro told me that is called, "builder's choice". As long as it works and looks good, no problem.