| Project by Scotach | posted 101 days ago | 772 views | 3 times favorited | 41 comments | ![]() |
One of two Grandy tenders that I helped build this year. This one was christened “Pepito” by the owner. She is a beautiful traditional lapstrake or clinker built boat. Red cedar planking on White oak steam bent frames. Her backbone is made of Sapele as well as all interior joinery. Sitka Spruce was selected for the oars. The planks were clench nailed with copper nails as in the old days. No stitch ‘n glue here.
-- 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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41 comments so far
brunob
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posted 101 days ago
Very well done. I’m planning on building an Aderondack Guideboat this summer. Just need to find some clear Cedar.
-- Bruce from Central New York
Suthy
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posted 101 days ago
All I can say is, “Wow!, that’s beautiful.”
Scotach
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posted 101 days ago
Thanks! Lapstrake is a great way to build, strong and light weight. I’d love to do a Guideboat as well, they have always captivated me with that graceful sheer and tumblehome in the stem and stern posts. We’re lucky up here in the Pacific Northwest to have access to great lumber! Good luck with yours, I’d love to see it when it’s completed.
-- Brian S. --- "If you’ve worked on the building of a boat, it belongs to you the rest of your life." -Bob Prothero
teenagewoodworker
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posted 101 days ago
thats beautiful! wonderful job! thanks for the post.
bbqking
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posted 101 days ago
Hey I live down here in Georgia and have plenty of room in my shop to build a canoe like that. (If that’s what it is) Got any more info? bbqKing
-- bbqKing, Lawrenceville
Scotach
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posted 101 days ago
Actually, it’s not a canoe. This is a 11’6” rowing skiff. It has a flat transom on the back as opposed to a stern post in a canoe. It was built to be a tender for a larger sailing yacht here in the Puget Sound area. It’s primary use will be to get the owner ashore once he’s anchored in a bay some where. The majority of canoes are double ended, narrow beam or width of the boat at the widest part, and use paddles for propulsion. This is a traditional rowing boat using two oars instead of paddles. She’s much fuller up front and beamier as well.
We used lines that were taken off of an ex park service boat to build this one and its little sister a 9 foot version.
The original boat was built by the Grandy Boat company in Seattle, Washington. The company used to make these little beauties as tenders for power and sailing yachts.
-- Brian S. --- "If you’ve worked on the building of a boat, it belongs to you the rest of your life." -Bob Prothero
Shopsmithtom
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posted 101 days ago
Absolutely beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-SST
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ND2ELK
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posted 101 days ago
My, these are quite the boats. Always admired the old wooden boats. I would think this would be a good business to get into in the right place. Beautiful work by you and your class mates. Thanks for posting.
God Bless
tom
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ChrisBabayco
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posted 100 days ago
That is a wonderfully beautiful tender! Did you create a bending form for each of the ribs? What did you finish it with? This really is a wonderful boat. Great job!
Toolz
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Gorgeous!
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RobH
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Absolutely gorgeous! I love wooden boats and hope someday to make one of my own (probably a canoe or kayak)
Keep up the good work.
-- -- Rob Hix, King George, VA
pashley
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posted 100 days ago
Pretty and useful! Well done.
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CharlieM1958
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What a gorgeous boat!
-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"
trifern
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posted 100 days ago
Beautiful boat! Thank you for sharing.
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Daren Nelson
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posted 100 days ago
I love it ! I don’t know what else to say.
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Andy
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Thats a work of Art.Both in design and workmanship.Well done!
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Chris
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I was raised on the shores of the Chesapeake as a Navy Brat…. I have always admired the old craftsmanship.
Amazing work Friend!
-- Chris
Texasgaloot
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posted 100 days ago
Hey Scotach -
Thanks so much for posting. Where did you find Grandy plans, or did you take them off of an existing boat? I know that with the clinker such things as fiberglass and epoxy coverings aren’t necessary, but did you add them for abrasion, or is she just the traditional (and admirable) spar varnish? Are you all making the oars as well?
A proper tender, that. Well done!
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jcees
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posted 100 days ago
Schweeeeeet!
always,
J.C.
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Lee A. Jesberger
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posted 100 days ago
Hi Brian;
Superb! Outstanding workmanship.
And a beautiful boat.
Lee
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Napaman
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posted 100 days ago
just incredible…what a fun project!
I clicked on our website last night and it sounds like a wonderful school!!! Would like to get up there one day!!!
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Woodhacker
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Wow Brian! That is truly amazing. I had to go back and look at your other boats as well. Seeing the inside of the boat, makes one realize the effort that must have gone into that. It looks to me like this has “blog” (hint, hint) written all over it. If you have any pictures of the construction process, I’d love to see them.
Thanks for posting these.
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Douglas Bordner
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She’s a beautiful vessel. Extremely well done. Thanks for sharing this with us.
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jeanmarc
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posted 100 days ago
thats beautiful.good work.
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Scotach
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posted 100 days ago
Wow, I’m blown over by the great comments posted here by everyone. Thanks everyone for the compliments and kind words. Seems like I have found a great community of folks here, but hey, woodworkers are amazing people!
I’ll try to answer the questions posted above.
ChrisBabayco – The frames (White Oak) were steamed in a box for about 30 mins each, once taken out they are carried rather quickly to the boat. At this point the boat is completely planked. Since the frames are noodle consistency, you can simply just bend them in, then fasten them. It takes a couple of sets of hands to accomplish this, maybe my kids could help me out with this stage of things when the time comes. As for the finish, it’s what the school calls boat sauce, a mixture of several things, pine tar, etc. The end result really makes the wood grain pop, without having to put on 7 coats of varnish.
Texasgaloot – The plans we used were taken off an old boat a couple of years ago at the school, from there we lofted the plans out to build our boats. As for epoxy or fiber glass, none at all on this boat, it would be redundant. If craftsmanship is top notch, the laps of the planks are completely water tight. One modern plywood lapstrake construction epoxy is used heavily. The hull got the same finish treatment as the interior, “boat suace”, but a few more coats. Should be fine, one would just need to be careful when beaching this craft, other than that she’s a good strong boat. And yes we made the oars as well, all of the small rowing style boats had oars made up, Sitka spruce or yellow cedar.
I’m working on getting my LJ’s blog going. I thought that would be cool as well, to put up construction pics of these boats. I have a ton!! I’ll have to sort through them and I’ll try to get some up soon.
-- Brian S. --- "If you’ve worked on the building of a boat, it belongs to you the rest of your life." -Bob Prothero
blackcherry
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These boats are some of the sweet project I seen on this great site…great post thanks for sharing…Blkcherry
WoodRivWW
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That is a beautiful boat. I’m looking forward to the blog. I’d like to see photos of the process. I built a wood strip canoe years ago, but this boat of yours is a whole new ball game.
-- Hailey, ID
Kipster
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That is truly a work of art. Inspiring. Thanks for the post.
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Grumpy
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Tremendous effort, stunning looking boat Brian.
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Dorje
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Gorgeous! What a beautiful combination of woods…
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TedM
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Beautiful!
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macpiper
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that boat is gorgeous!
miles125
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Wonderful boat!
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Bob #2
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My dad had one similar to that with a big 10 hp on the back. The worked great through the rapids.
You are indeed lucky to have made her.
Bob
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Chip
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What an outstanding piece of functional art. I’ve done a number of the wooden model kits (peapods, canoes, etc) and this just makes me drool. I envy your passion.
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MSRiverdog
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That’s nice, wish I had the stones to take the time. Looks Great.
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cobbler
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I love it. I can`t imagine how long it would take
to build a masterpiece like that. Man, that is amazing.
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FJDIII
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Brian,
Great boat! There is just something about beauty combined with function that just gets my juices flowing. Right now I am in the beginning stages of windsor chair making but would love to expand my horizons to the building of kayaks and canoes. The posts of the crafts on this site have been inspiring works of art. Keep up the incredible work.
-- Fred.... Poconos, PA ---- Chairwright in the making ----
matt garcia
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WOW!! I think I like this one better!! Great looking boat!!!
-- Matt, Houston Texas
scottb
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simply beautiful. Music on the water.
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Huckleberry
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Really cool. I am going to be trying a boat sometime next year, can’t wait for the challenge.
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