You'll get doable and fair hulls without spending hours of CAD fairing.You have also to understand basic principles of boat design. Pretty expensive but far less than a full size mistake. Buy 1 full sheet of 4 feet, not in a model shop, it's too expensive, but in a specialized wood supplies for airplanes. The primordial investment.Īfter reading (and understanding) this book, go to the practices make models in airplane birch plywood. There is one only book for that Gougeon Brothers on boat construction, there is a complete and detailed chapter on compounded plywood. The catamarans had very different shapes and showed that within the limitations of the system you can get, with some compromises, what you want.įirst get some lights on boat building, plywood, and compounded (or tortured) plywood. I made five 18 feet catamarans in compounded plywood for regatting, so I have now some idea how this method works.

I have a lot to learn about the tools out there, just trying to learn more about what is possible and what tools to put my time into studying. Does freeship allow you to do what I am trying to do as described above? Meaning, will freeship allow to design for stitch and glue and also allow you to bend each panel and provide an output based on this?Īny help would be appreciated. Looks like it only allows you to design with the assumption that no plywood would be bent to form any radius. just not getting how it works and gave up on it. I have also looked at the Hull program but. Instead of spending a few more hours experimenting with the software, reading manuals etc I thought I would just ask the experts.just to make sure I am on the right path. Admittedly, I am new to Freeship and may have not discovered how the software makes this happen just yet. I have been playing with Freeship and like how powerful it is but I don't think I understand how I can get an output out of it that takes me to the next step of building it from plywood. Does anyone know of a free software program that has the user friendly components of Stitch and Glue light and provides the output plans for free? Could you actually go as far as to have two long panels and book end them with the right cut and bend to come up with a painfully simple construction process with only one stitch location at the centerline? Is that Doable? (No chines, smooth hull). Ideally I would love a completely smooth hull, with no chines. Since I plan to bend the ply quite a bit I hope to avoid having too many chines in the final construction. In addition, it doesn't seem to allow you to choose how many pieces you would like in the output. The problem is that Stitch and glue light charges for those plans. What seems like would be a simple approach would be to design it in something like Stitch and Glue light, print out the plans and go build a model to experiment with. Then think, maybe not that pencil thin but. Think of the rowing shells you see on the river, pencil thin super fast hull design. Since Outrigger canoes attain stability via the Ama and Iako set up, the boat can be pretty narrow (beam of 20 inches) and does not need a hard chine for stability. To build a simple two person outrigger Canoe using stitch and glue with a thin, fairly bendable (steamed -likely) plywood. And I could be looking to do something that is pretty impractical.

Couldn't find the answers anywhere in the design forums. I have been a lurker on this forum for a little while now and decided to jump in with what may be a pretty easy question.

Stitch and glue canoe plans free