Nice Work Paul, Love the small boat builds. I built a oss (one sheet skiff) a couple summers ago and it was my favorite wood working project, I just love small boats!
Enjoyed very much! Looks like a fun little boat! I made a 8.5' sailboat when I was in college 20 years ago. Plywood. Cost me $65 total before I sailed her on a blue tarp sail! Fun times.
Some ventilation to address the condensation issue seems a good idea. I wonder if there's a clever way to use the coroplast itself to integrate a simple heat exchanger right into the structure of the boat.
Cruising around Lake Union brings back fond memories of my Uncle Johnny and taking his cabin cruiser out for dinner and sightseeing. He had a slip in a marina on Lake Union. He was the coolest, and you make me think of him Paul. Thanks
That's wild! If you were to add a couple little flaps you could open to allow a little bit of airflow - or maybe add a small fan to the cockpit that should take care of the condensation.
Paul that looks like a tiny lobster boat ! Many of the fishing boats in Maine have a cutout in the windscreen that flips up on a hing to see out of when foggy condition call for it. What a fun boat ,nice job .
Paul, they make a anti fogging agent for snow mobile helmet visors, that might be just the ticket to your fogging issues. Happy Holidays to you and yours! Great video as always!
Absolutely will buy the plans for this one too just to support your future builds. Every time we visit Ivars on SLU, I joke with my wife about hoping to see you pull up to the dock in a mini boat 😂
General question: how much less flex would fluted coroplast have if you criss crossed two sheet so their ribbing ran perpendicular to each other, ala plywood? Love to see you do some stress / strength test doing this, gluing them to each other with 100% area coverage.
That's interesting, I was just wondering how strong this material would be as a shield. They used plywood for shields, even in the viking era. I don't necessarily expect Paul to wack coroplast with a machete like other RU-vidrs might, but any kind of test on strength or durability would be cool. If I can get my hands on some, I will probably test it myself though!
I'm not sure if one gains something useful from it. I'm working on a wetter shell for my vehicle, consisting of polycarbonate plates of various thicknesses. There is a significant difference in rigidity between 1/4th and 1/3rd of an inch. I think, coroplast and polycarbonates are somewhat comparable in this aspect. Doubling the number of layers might be difficult to fold. In my case, I've reduced the flimsiness of the hatch's design and the surrounding construction by crewing 1x0.4`` planks to it that I've "recycled" from the slatted frame of an old children's bed.
@@vaterchenfrost7481 that's why I said my comment was unrelated to this project. Boats are loaded with curved surfaces; I just hoped to give Paul ideas for future videos of various projects.
@@monkeysuncle2816 Oh, I see. Somehow I missed your approach on that one. Your suggestion has its justification as soon as one drops the foldability and and there are no alternating loads in the design.
I really enjoy your videos and learn a thing or to along the way. I'm 63 and this kinda stuff is what I'm into doing as well. Keep up the great videos eh!
You'll have me out on Lake Washington in our Livingston here if you keep this up, Paul! I've been looking at the lake a lot lately it's been soooo quiet out there! Love watching you drive that trolling motor all day like that, too. I'm wondering if someone (You, Zoffinger?) shouldn't build something with two over volted trolling motors paired with a big ebike battery for some kind of sneaky fast/slow cruiser thing. Maybe that boat could even support dual trollers? Anyway- great build as always and Happy Holidays! ( I guess I could always have a look at these plans of yours, too...)
@4:14 adding this to my vocabulary! Love your work! Very interesting and I love the common man aspect! Keep up the hard work! Thank you for making amazing videos!
Paul … Love the “cabin cruiser”! Wishing you and your beloved a very merry Christmas!!! Happy trails, best wishes, take care, be safe and God bless!!! Chuck Knight formerly from Buffalo, Texas & now from Atascocita, Texas. ✝️👨🌾🎅🎄🐩🙏
Where I live Duck hunters could leverage your design for lightweight single man operations, easy to make rain proof with a plastic flap over the open back. Nice!
I used to buy stuff at my dive shop to keep my scuba mask from fogging up. It was in a plastic bottle and had a sponge applicator tip similar to a liquid shoe polish bottle.
Yet another nautical success I have a lil miss sally I love it but it is showing its age. this one next? condensation? use a usb fan or a computer fan, low draw and the slight air flow might help
4:12 there might be some kind of wax paper that won't stick to Gorilla glue. You could put on top of window opening with plexiglas on top of it. Position plexiglas, slide paper out.
I just watched a video of a guy solving window fogging in cold environments by double panning his cars windshield.. perhaps this is your solution as well. It would be cool to add a little hand powered windshield wiper too =p How very very cool.. I talk about you all the time man.. in fact last night i was. I've got 5 sheets of 4x8 sitting around for my next Elkins project, and did my best interpretation of a camper system to tow behind a motorized bicycle or lower speeds on a motorcycle for fun little weekend camp trips where I just want to get lost.. (i need better mounting, aerodynamics and reinforcement before i feel comfortable on the motorcycle past town speeds because I'd love to make one that is 55-65mph worthy to take on a coast to coast trip and/or beach trips. Regardless, Merry Christmas Paul Elkins
Very cool project. I don't like the clam design though as it feels like every bigger wave could flood your ship. What if there was a flexible water tight seal between cabin walls and ship walls while the cabin would fold open like a Chinese take away when you want to enter or exit.
Having settled in East Tennessee (by way of Tucson) from The Sound after Alaska. I am thinking this with a slight Tugboat Mod would work for us. May even take it up to 12'. This time a 1928 Fantail Stern model maybe instead of the 1892 Square Stern I used guiding on the Kenai all those years.
If you make the bottom of the windows able to tip out, it will solve your condensation issue by giving some ventilation and still keep you dry if it rains.
With the PVC gunwhales do you have enough strength to make a row boat? I like those Ruth Wherry designs. I'm also wondering if you could plastic weld cloroplast to make long water tight panels?
I found most of it at a second hand store, but most big box home improvement stores stalk it as well. I used two thicknesses, the thick stuff for the front wind screen.
I wondered how cold your bottom was getting. Also the paint ball industry makes micro fans for masks to stop condensation from forming on the inside of the visor.
I bought a 10' Tucktec folding kayak during their black friday sale. I would have gladly bought plans for a similar design but I don't think anyone is selling plans for those. The Oru Kayak is even nicer looking but it's over priced. There's also a folding canoe from a company called MyCanoe that's nice but also too expensive. Plans for something similar would sell as all three of those designs fold very compact for storage and transportation.
