Alvis Marine

If riding the waves is your passion or sailing down the river to enjoy a beautiful evening is what you dream of, don’t let the exorbitant costs of buying a boat stop you. After all, Boat Building is one of the oldest branches of engineering and man has mastered it over time. Building your boat from the scratch might feel challenging at first, but imagine the satisfaction you will feel when you bring the boat built with your own hands to the shore for the first time. Sailing in it to enjoy a stunning Sunset will be the just reward for your hard work.

It’s important to understand different parts of a boat before you begin building one. They are:

• Hull is the watertight part of the boat. It’s the part of the boat that is in direct contact with water at all given times and hence crucial to the mechanism of your boat.
• Bow is the front end of the hull and has to be tall enough to prevent water from washing over the hull.
• Bulkheads are the internal walls of the hull.
• Chines are the long strips on the hull. When a boat is traveling at a speed, it forms a spray of water that has to be deflected downwards, which is done by chines.
• Deck is where you’d be standing on your boat, and it keeps water out of the hull.
• Keel is the central part that runs along the bottom of the boat, which is crucial when you need to turn your boat.
• Rudder is the rotating blade that you see at the rear end of a boat.
• Some of the other important parts of the boat are Garboard, Gunwale, Strake, Sheer, Stem, Stern and Transom.

The size and building material for these parts depends on the type of your boat and its shape. Wood has traditionally been the material to build boats. But different types of materials like steel, aluminum, and fiberglass can be used for boats that have specific needs and functions. Continue reading…

My uncle Ray showed me his sailboat plans last year before building his own sailboat. He let me know that if you build your own boat rather then buying one you’ll enjoy the experience of sailboating 10 times more intensely. The sailboat plans my uncle showed was just ones of 100s of boat building plans he worked from.

Uncle Ray informed me that he has paid hundreds of bucks on sailboat plans in order to get the very finest for his boat building business. Not too far back, maybe two years he discovered a dealer with a good deal of high quality detailed boat plans for under fifty bucks. Uncle at first thought that maybe the boat plans were repurposed but because the boat building plans dealer offered him a sixty day money back guarantee to try them out he made a decision to give them a try. Uncle Ray could not believe the deal he’d got for 254 boat plans of all kinds and sizes.

Out of all the boat plans Uncle showed me I like the sailboat plans the best. That is because sailboating is my fave sport. My uncle always utilizes high quality boat building plans whenever he builds his own boats. He has boat designs of each type and besides the sailboat plans I love his canoe plans. I did not understand how many varieties of canoes there are. He has dozens of them. Continue reading…