Printable Version of Topic -HD Forums +--Forum: Boat Tech +---Topic: Boat started by FilipeHF Posted by: FilipeHF on July 04 2005,4:25 pm <000080'>Hello! My name is Filipe. I'm from Brazil and i'm a new HF forum member. I'm studding mecanic engeniring and i love boat. Now i have a project to make a "house" boat (in portuguese barco caseiro). I don't now this is the right name in englis but i try to explane this. I'm tryng to make a boat myself. Obvius the motor i gonna by, but the boat i gonna try to make in my house. Have someone here a project? A motor boat like yours can be make in wood? or must be in "plastic'' (i dont now the name of "resina" in english ) Sory but my english isnt good!   Posted by: Havasu Doug on July 04 2005,6:11 pm Felipe, Welcome to the HD Forums! While many of us have assembled our motors, I can't think of anyone that has built a wooden hull here.  The majority of us have professionally built fiberglass hulls.  While most of our boats came with a working engine, many of us have rebuilt our engines at one time or another. Your project sounds very interesting, though, and I hope you will share with us any progress you make. Good luck with your project. Posted by: mspencer55 on July 04 2005,6:32 pm Felipe, You can build aboat from wood, fiberglass, aluminum, steel or concrete...your choice. I have personally used wood to build a 9 foot & 14 foot boats (runabouts) You might take a look at www.glenl.com. They sell plans and other stuff to the home builder market. Hope this helps. Mark Posted by: GoFastRacer on July 04 2005,7:49 pm Welcome Felipe, as "mspencer55" says Glen-L is a perfect place to start to build a boat from scratch, check them out and let us know what you decide on, we'll guide you as much as we can!..   < Glen-L > Posted by: Carrera Elite on July 05 2005,10:04 am Welcome to Dougs!!  Sounds like you have quite the project planned!! Let us know how it works out for you. Posted by: LASINC on July 13 2005,10:46 am Welcome aboard!!!! Good luck with that project.   Posted by: My Man's Sportin' Wood on July 13 2005,10:59 am My dad built a wooden boat when I was a kid.  He covered it with fiberglass cloth and "painted"  a resin material over it. Posted by: procraftkev on July 13 2005,1:50 pm Welcome to HD Forums! Good luck! Posted by: GoFastRacer on July 13 2005,9:00 pm ---------------------QUOTE BEGIN------------------- My dad built a wooden boat when I was a kid.  He covered it with fiberglass cloth and "painted"  a resin material over it. -----------------------QUOTE END-------------------- Yep glass over wood, you remember what boat it was, probably a Glen-L huh??..   end

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