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COOT - A 22'  CHESAPEAKE BAY  SHARPIE (Plans Updated) I much admire the sharpie for its simplicity of construction and stability under sail. After reading  Reuel  Parker's The Sharpie Book,  It  wasn't  a week before I set out to build my own version of a sharpie skiff. (Click here to see pictures of  Foolhardy . ) Coot is a throwback to the days when sharpies dominated the  Chesapeake Bay . With her raking masts and "clipper" bowsprit, she also suggests the lines of the larger Skipjacks and  Pungies  that once plied the Bay. Built today, I imagine  Coot  would get her share of attention wherever she went. Worth a look is  Bonnie Lassie ,  a lovely open hulled Coot, sailed for many years in the  Cape Cod  area by Jeremy Masterson and his family. p.140 text follows:   main  and side keelsons forward, or aft as re...

In general:  Foam-sandwich construction in the following assumes the use of the pure polyvinyl-chloride rigid-elastic type of 5 to 6 lbs. per cubic foot density. Chemically blown cross-linked PVC foams as well as polyurethane foams do not have the same charateristics and will not necessarily function or react the same as pure PVC types. In foam-sandwich construction, the PVC foam is applied in sheet form over a male mold or form to make the hull of the boat. The FORM is a by-product and does not remain in the finished hull. The foam acts as a core material over which fiberglass material and resin are applied to both sides, thereby forming a rigid and strong sandwich-type of construction. See  Useful Information & Suppliers  for sources of foam core materials. Fig. 1  The form members are erected on a building form, accurately aligned, and braced to prevent movement. The traverse forms usually conform to the stations, and must be vertical, at right angles...

A 1/13th scale model of a  Stevenson   Weekender Tallulah is a "metric inch" model of the "Weekender" built from the actual full size plans purchased from Stevenson Projects I decided to make a study model of the Weekender before building the full sized boat.  The study model quickly evolved into a remote control pond yacht, which is what you see here.  Metric Inch Scale Tallulah was built to a funky "metric-inch" scale using the 50:1 side of a three-sided metric architectural rule and reading the decimeter markings as if they were inches.  The resulting model is about 1/13th scale, which works out to be almost 18 inches in length for the 19 ft long Weekender.   19ft * 12in/ft * 1in/2.54cm * 10/1 (dm as in) * 1/50scale = 17.95in ( 17.95in / 19ft ) / 12in/ft = 1/12.7scale  ~ 1/13th Why the funky scale?  The dimensions on the Weekender plans are given in inches and fractions of inches, not the feet, inches, and fractions ...