Re: [Cal_Boats] Hull tour of Wooden Boat (Allen)

Allen - Was your boat built as a racer or a cruiser or both? This boat is all cruise and is a ketch. Any concrete in your keel? I couldn't believe that they actually had poured concrete in their keel! Paul In a message dated 11/5/2013 11:05:07 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, al… [at] gmail.com writes: Similar looking build to mine although it struck me that it is a lot heavier at 28,000 pounds compared to my 12,000. Even allowing for the boat being larger, it is a lot heavier. I figure the equivalent weight of a 41 ft one of mine would be 18,000 pounds assuming weight is cube of length. But the planking looks similar. Of course, this is a full keel boat and mine is a fin keel although it is a big fin by today's standards. On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 5:44 PM, <_p… [at] aol.com_ (mailto:pw… [at] aol.com) > wrote: Hey Allen and others with an interest in wooden boats - This link is to a "hull tour" of a Dickerson 41 which were built here on the Chesapeake a while back. They have a pretty religious following much like Lapworth and every year they have a Dickerson round up just up the river from where they were built. Anyway you might find the owner's discussion of how the boat was built interesting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iKko8PQeks&list=PLOhEGypVYJG0I6T3D0J7lO_EUwC BLskpN Paul

The story I heard was that Lapworth decided that maybe a boat would go faster if he made it lighter so he built the L-36 with the strip plank construction and almost nothing in the way of ribs. It has a 4500 pound lead ballast at the bottom of the fin keel. (There is no place to pour concrete because of the fin keel). After that he decided he could make a boat even lighter if he used fiberglass with a core and built the Cal-40. Then a lot of other boat builders copied him and built fiberglass boats. That is the way it was told to me. This video and the specs on the boat just drive home how light Lapworth really built our boats. Allen On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 9:07 PM, <pw… [at] aol.com> wrote: > > > Allen - > > Was your boat built as a racer or a cruiser or both? This boat is all > cruise and is a ketch. Any concrete in your keel? I couldn't believe that > they actually had poured concrete in their keel! > > Paul > > In a message dated 11/5/2013 11:05:07 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > al… [at] gmail.com writes: > > > > Similar looking build to mine although it struck me that it is a lot > heavier at 28,000 pounds compared to my 12,000. Even allowing for the boat > being larger, it is a lot heavier. I figure the equivalent weight of a 41 > ft one of mine would be 18,000 pounds assuming weight is cube of length. > But the planking looks similar. Of course, this is a full keel boat and > mine is a fin keel although it is a big fin by today's standards. > > > On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 5:44 PM, <pw… [at] aol.com> wrote: > >> >> >> Hey Allen and others with an interest in wooden boats - >> >> This link is to a "hull tour" of a Dickerson 41 which were built here on >> the Chesapeake a while back. They have a pretty religious following much >> like Lapworth and every year they have a Dickerson round up just up the >> river from where they were built. Anyway you might find the owner's >> discussion of how the boat was built interesting. >> >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iKko8PQeks&list=PLOhEGypVYJG0I6T3D0J7lO_EUwCBLskpN >> >> Paul >> >> >> >> > >