Hi All,

Few months ago I've started building project of Beth - sailing canoe designed by Michael Storer - an Australian boat designer.

Home page of Beth: http://www.storerboatplans.com/Beth/beth.html

and there are my photos of building this boat: http://www.flickr.com/photos/robhosailor/sets/72157618030604102/

Materials described in plans are: 6 mm and 4 mm okoume plywood and spruce timbers 19/19 mm and 19/25 mm (and few others). In my country okoume plywood is a bit expensive and available in one distributor - transport from him is expensive too. I've used woterproof birch plywood wich is haevier (!!!) but stronger and pine timbers (heavier and stronger too - they are cheaper and available in my area.

Sails - in plans dimensioned drawings for sailmakers are. But in my area professional sailmakers didn't want to make them (two very small lug sails - sailmakers prefer large bermudian...). For this reason I consider to make polytarp sails by myself. I needed additional info and dimensions for it - Michael Storer get me all of them on his forum.

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Today I want to join sides to bottom and see my boat in real 3D :-)

Very nice boat! I'm sure you'll love it!

Hi Robert,

Thanks for the pictures of the build process! The boat is looking great, and the pictures explain everything, well, almost everything.

Nice garage floor, btw... :-)

Thank you very much Ed and Gammason!

Hoping for permanent progress ;-)
but ...short break at present :-)


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Garage floor? It's a cheapest technical gres porcellanato (probably product of China) - very popular in my country :-)

Hi again,

I have no space for new building photos on my Flickr album (my account limited is).
Newest building photos on my Photobucket album are:
http://s219.photobucket.com/albums/cc302/robhosailor/Building%20sailing%20canoe%20Beth%20-Yuanfen-/

Hi canoe sailors again!!!

There are current photos of building progress:
http://picasaweb.google.pl/robhosailor/BuildingOfSailingCanoeBETHYanfen#

:)
The hull is almost finished...