skippy's new dingy. Need Suggestions For Wood.

[skip1930]

Hey sailors, skippy has a new to him 'Yacht~let'. I'll think I'll call it 'Less Comfort & Joy.' A take off of Comfort & Joy, the CP-19.

Dr. Alan Wentworth who is in our USPS boat club said when I asked,  "Doc, just how attached to that dingy in your back yard at the Sturgeon Bay Shack are you?"

"Well skip, not very." "You want it?" "Sure. I'll pick it up after work tomarrow." "It's been up side down in the mud since 1985 when we had our sailboat. The wood might be rotted away."

And here she is. Before and After one day of scrubbing and denuding all the stuff that was falling off her, Ain't she pretty? What great lines. Luv's that wine glass transom and shear. Very beamy at 4'-6" and only 7'-6" long. High freeboard. A safe dingy.

Has a set of oars that when the good Doc came up from Green Bay for a Kentucky Derby's Party at the Yacht Club he stopped over and dropped off plus the cradle so she would set up right.

I'm going to have to cut some new mahogany and screw that on...but 'A little lace and a little paint will make her what she ain't.'

Here we go. A new adventure. Plus he gave me a 39'-10" dock on wheels plus a Shore Station he had for his Boston Whaler that Port-O-Pier made for him before he had a cement dock made for his 38 foot East Bay power boat, Bellatrix.

skip.

[Greene]

Very nice stout looking dinghy.  A littl work and you'll have a great addition to your fleet.  How about "Dis-Comfort and Toil"?

Mike

[Bob23]

That is one beautiful little dink! Despite her short length, I bet she rows well. Congrats!!!!!
Bob23

[MKBLK]

Skippy - That dink should be very happy now that she'll receive all that TLC from you. I like the name!

Marty K.

[skip1930]

I need some advice here. So you guys spin your collars around and expostulate. I don't know my woods.

The dingy had what I think is mahogany rub rails inside the perimeter of the top-o-hull, rotted.

So I stopped at the local lumber yard looking for wood, I didn't find Natalee, but they had Oak and Maple strips used for baseboard stuff in houses.
Both materials come 1 and a quarter inch vertical x one quarter inch thick and seven foot long.

Three edges are square and one edge is rounded. Under $ five bucks a strip. "I'm cheap but I ain't free."
I'd have to scarff pieces together [on a eight to one slope] to achieve seven foot six inches long plus contrary.

I was thinking about drilling clean through and use copper rivets to make the 'pinch'.

I was thinking about forgoing the rubber rub rail on the outside and having an outside and inside sandwitch of Oak wood for a surround.

Is this Oak a suitable wood for this? I like the grain. [The center seat is mahogany or Teak] is perfect and will not be touched. It has one layer of fiberglass cloth on the underside from the factory as a stiffener]

The bow chunk of wood that the Oak strips land on I will replace with Black Walnut, as is the triangle beneath the bow chunk that the tow eye hangs on, and the two stern thwarts [knees] in the corners and the transom also in Black Walnut. Transom? I don't know. Have to find a bigger piece of fine hard wood.

What say you? thanx skip. I might be able to find some exotic wood at Palmer Johnson Yachts as scrap.

[HideAway]

That is one nice looking dink.   A word about the rub rail - we have a Chesapeake Lightcraft pram with wood rails -- It seems no matter where I place the fenders the wood rails on the dink manage to find some gelcoat to mark up.  I ve been considering covering them in canvas or rope.   M

[skip1930]

This dingy is not to row out to a boat on the mooring. Just to knock about in.
Shouldn't be budding up any fiberglass hulls.

skip

[Winded]

Hey Skip,

I sail a Com Pac 16 normally but I do have a wooden boat also.  Since I bought the wooden boat I've met a few builders, learned a bit about mine and have this two cents worth to add.  The only oak that I have on my boat is where it is used for structural integrety like knees, frames etc. and as a "shoe" on the bottom of the keel in case of a grounding.  A couple years ago I was going to replace an oak floorboard alignment peg that went missing and found a length of 5/8" oak dowel at the lumber yard that I thought should do the trick.  To be on the safe side I talked to the builder and he said that the dowel was probably red oak and that what I needed for the job was white oak.  It was explained to me why I needed white oak but I don't remember why now.  As pretty as that little boat you got is, some nice oiled teak caprails would be just the "lace" your clever quote is suggesting.  Please post more pictures when you make your decision.

Fred

[ehall686]

That little boat cleaned up real nice.   Did you finish her up yet? I found a shipping crate for a picture window that was made out of mahogany that I have been making odds and ends out of. It would be cheaper than the teak but may be a little more maintenance in the long run.

I just had someone trying to talk us into sailing our Com-pac to Door county have you ever sailed over to Michigan?