Boat building methods - advice, tips & articles

Boat building for amateurs. Take all safety precautions.

Boat building advice, tips, information articles - boats, catamarans, yachts, rowing boats, pleasure boats, plans, buildings and storage, workshops, wooden, metal, aluminium, steel, fibreglass, resin, composite, DIY, FSC timber, tools, methods

This is a new section of the site, we will be adding articles over the next few weeks.

Coming soon are:

Boat construction methods

Boat construction materials

• Wood - hardwood such as oak, softwood such as pine for planks
• Metal - iron, steel, aluminium, zinc
• Composite
• Polyster
• Resin and Fibreglass GRP - Glass-reinforced plastic
• Concrete - we are not joking! also ferro-cement, or ferrocement

We will be looking at the parts that make up a boat such as hull, bow (front end), bulkheads, planks, decking, keel, stern (rear end), rudder etc.

Here are some images from Malaysia of a fishing boat under construction.

Above: close up of stern of boat under construction, fishing boat in Pulau Pangkor, Malaysia

Above: boat under construction, fishing boat, wooden hull and keel

Above: stern of boat under construction, fishing boat

Above: planks for boat under construction, ready to use