Rejoined from New Zealand

[Puddles]

Hi all, I?m new here ... for the second time. I joined in 2009 with the intention of building a paddleboat, but as it happened, wishful thinking on my part didn?t lead to anything getting started, and I presume I must have been removed from the site in a clean up due to inactivity, which is fair enough. My old posts are still there under the same user name but I don?t have access to them. So there are 2 Puddles on here ? old me, and new me. Funnily though ?new me? is also old me, as I?m now 62 ? how did that happen!

The enthusiasm never went away though, and I rejoined a while ago. I also rejoined my local model boat club, after a 25 year absence, and am now sailing regularly again. I?ve been a modeller for all this time, just not boats. So, as I say, I?m now an active boat modeller & sailor again.

I have the plans for the PS Curlip (1890?ish) & PS Enterprise (1878) on the way to me from Float-A-Boat, along with 2 geared motors. I also have a Sabertooth motor controller coming to me, and some pulleys and toothed belts. My plan is to build the Curlip at double the plan size so it?s 1/12 scale and 45? long. This will be my first paddler so it?ll be a learning experience for me, which is why I?m going for a fairly simple design like Curlip. All going well, the Enterprise will be next.

I?ll start a build thread when I get started.

Cheers
Owen

[derekwarner_decoy]

Welcome 'back' Owen

Pretty sure you will be impressed with the quality of the Float a Boat drawing plans  , as Adrian Brewer draws every wooden beam and plank section in scaled full-size

If you have the plan for Curlip enlarged x 100% at a Plan printing shop, you will easily be able to measure the size of every wooden section and make a material listing from these   

Looking forward to your build

Derek

[Puddles]

Thanks for that Derek. I enjoy woodworking, so I'm wanting to build the boat in the same way the original was. No Red Gum over here, so I'll probably use one of our equivalent natives like Rimu or Kauri. It would be great if the plan shows the construction method used in the fullsize.

I've had a search on the internet for photo's that show the internal construction of the Murray river paddlers - how the ribs etc were built, but no luck so far. Do you have any ideas where I might find that sort of information, if it's not already on the plan?

One of the reasons for wanting to build in 1/12 scale is so that I can replicate that sort of detail.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions you may have.