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Davis Boats (boat school)

Project by Scotach posted 519 days ago 881 views 3 times favorited 20 comments Add to Favorites Watch

Here’s two completed boats that we finished in the Traditional Small Craft shop this past spring. We took the lines of an original boat built in the 1930’s-40’s lofted it on the floor of the shop and built these two beautiful boats. One is 14’ the other 16’. Red cedar planking on White Oak steam bent frames,All of the interior joinery were done in Sapele.

The last photo show the original boat that the lines were taken off of.

-- Brian S. --- "If you’ve worked on the building of a boat, it belongs to you the rest of your life." -Bob Prothero


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Napaman

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posted 519 days ago

wow…these are really gorgeous!!! do uou make other kids of boats as well???

-- Matt, Napa, CA...fun is beautiful...just trying to have some fun...

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Scotach

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posted 519 days ago

Well, these two boats were built as a team effort if you will, being that about 20 of us had our hands in various aspects of construction. But, my plan is once I get back to Texas to my shop, I’ll start building more boats. Probably won’t be any sort of production level, perhaps start with commissioned small boats 12-18 feet in length. Rowing skiffs, pulling boats, etc. But, if I come up with a great design myself or find a design that is relatively quick to build I might be able to turn them into a small run of production boats. We’ll see, if my fellow Texans are into traditional wooden boats like I am. I suppose I can always ship ‘em out as well.

-- Brian S. --- "If you’ve worked on the building of a boat, it belongs to you the rest of your life." -Bob Prothero

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Todd A. Clippinger

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posted 519 days ago

Those are true beauties.

-- Todd A. Clippinger, Montana, http://amcraftsman.com

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Blake

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posted 519 days ago

Those are gorgeous!

-- Check out my new website! http://www.blakeweberwoodworking.com

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Rob Drown

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posted 519 days ago

They are amazingly beautiful. The lines are really graceful and the craftsmenship looks excellent. Floating art.

-- Sharp tools and thin whispy shavings make woodworking a joy.

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Scotach

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posted 519 days ago

Cheers everyone! The skills learned and experience alone, building those two boats, were worth the move up here! I’ll try to get more pics of the other boats we completed over the past 6 months.

-- Brian S. --- "If you’ve worked on the building of a boat, it belongs to you the rest of your life." -Bob Prothero

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jockmike2

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posted 519 days ago

You just don’t see Old Town Canoes anymore, those are gorgeous. I owned one, a real Old Town, about 40 years ago I bought for 50 dollars. The canvas was in such bad shape I had to cover it with fiberglass. It was still a nice old canoe and I enjoyed many hours fishing in it. Thanks for showing us.

-- Mike. mwurm13@yahoo.com

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Chris

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posted 519 days ago

Absolutely gorgeous! Where was the class?

-- Chris

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Scotach

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posted 519 days ago

I moved my entire family, all five of us up to the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State for this class. One year intensive program learning to build traditional small wooden boats at the Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building, located near Port Townsend, Washington. Fantastic School, amazing instructors, great community of like-minded woodworkers, novice and seasoned pro’s alike, beautiful part of the country! Check it out!

-- Brian S. --- "If you’ve worked on the building of a boat, it belongs to you the rest of your life." -Bob Prothero

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Rob Drown

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posted 519 days ago

From the looks of the website that is quite a school. They build some incredible boats. Some of the larger boasts are really wonderful also.

Please keep us posted. Blessings on you friend.

-- Sharp tools and thin whispy shavings make woodworking a joy.

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Mark Shymanski

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posted 519 days ago

I’ve already warned Jenn that she will find a boat project in the shop one day, seeing posts like this make it even harder to resist the call of boat making. Nice looking boats!

-- ...it's rennovation time!!!

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pashley

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posted 518 days ago

Another winner. I wonder, how long did it take to construct?

-- http://newmissionworkshop.com

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trifern

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posted 518 days ago

Wow, beautiful boats. Thank you for sharing.

-- My favorite piece is my last one, my best piece is my next one.

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Napaman

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posted 518 days ago

wow…that is amazing—-taking the entire family…I have been to the northwest twice…two road trips…and it is amazing country!!! good luck with your venture…MAY TEXANS LOVE YOUR BOATS!!! Maybe if they had your boats at the ALAMO they could have sailed out of that fort ( I have no idea what I am talking about—-thought I was onto some texan ad campaign for you and got lost along the way)...

Keep us posted on your journey…

-- Matt, Napa, CA...fun is beautiful...just trying to have some fun...

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Lee A. Jesberger

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posted 518 days ago

Hi Brian;

These are really beautiful!

I’ve always had an itch to try building one of these.

This just renews the itch!

Lee

-- by Lee A. Jesberger http://www.prowoodworkingtips.com http://www.ezee-feed.com

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Scotach

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posted 518 days ago

Thanks everyone for the great comments! These boats are truly amazing to build and watch take shape. It’s a very unique form of woodworking indeed, no straight lines on a boat. Since we are in a classroom/workshop environment the boats take longer than normal to build, since everyone has a hand in construction and we’re all learning this trade. We started three boats at once in January, a 14 footer, 11 footer, 9 footer, completed the 14 footer in May, and the 9 footer about a week ago. The nine footer had a dipping lug sail rig that we made as well, minus the sail. We started the 16 footer in mid May, and finished up last week. The 16 took less time, because we had plenty of experience by that time. I’m not sure in terms of hours though, I hadn’t added all that up.

The guys in the shop have been teasing me lately, being a Texan, that I could possibly be the first cowboy boatbuilder! Possible logo idea? hmmmm… LOL!

-- Brian S. --- "If you’ve worked on the building of a boat, it belongs to you the rest of your life." -Bob Prothero

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Grumpy

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posted 518 days ago

Stunning

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

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Kipster

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posted 517 days ago

Boat school sounds fun, Thanks for sharing

-- Kip Northern Illinois ( If you don't know where your goin any road will take you there) George Harrison

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MSRiverdog

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posted 517 days ago

Yes! Boat School sounds like fun.

-- http://www.riverviewwoodworking.com

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matt garcia

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posted 513 days ago

These are awesome! I can close my eyes, and just imagine all of that perfect joinery!!! Great job, Brian!! Looking forward you to your return to Texas….......yeeha!!

-- Matt, Houston Texas

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