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Sailboat - "RV SEEKER"
In August of 2007, we attended the Metal Boat Society conference in Bellingham WA, did a week of sailing around the San Juan islands, Then when to Comox Valley on Vancouver Island and met Paul Liebenberg to see his 65ft origami steel, twin keel, junk design drawn up by Jack Carson who is also a local part of the year. See "Paul's 65ft Origami" for details and photos. Paul's boat is a perfect example of what Kay and I have been looking for and Jack Carson is a very knowledgably and flexible designer so he is drawing up plans for similar boat for us. Our boat will have also be a junk design with junk rig sails, a cargo hull for a shop and a full pilot house. |
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Originally we were planning to build in 3/8 inch aluminum, but that was switched to steel because I did not want to delay another year in order for the cash flow to catch up to the plans. You can debate aluminum or steel for days, but the bottom line is that for a work boat, each have their good side. At Jacks suggestion we also dropped plans for a center lifting keel in exchange for twin bilge keels. The draft will be 5 1/2 ft, but it is a simpler hull to build and and maintain.
To create our plans, Jack started with a piece of paper that had the 64ft hull drawn on it in 1" to 1' scale. He then made some changes, transferred the drawing to sign board, cut it out, folded it up, glued the seams, took measurements, ran some calculations, adjusted the original drawing and did it again. Three models latter he was done. No CAD, no CAM, no Computer, "very caveman" as he said.
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