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Water Rat

2003-9-30 030 2003-9-30 028 R0013214 R0013213 R0013212

The plans come as four sheets giving the details required to build both the 9ft and the 10.8ft versions, and are available in either metric or imperial measure (please specify your preference). They come in printed form (4 sheets of A3-sized paper) or as a pdf file sent via email for you to print out. The scale will only be correct if printed on A3, but that is not important as all of the measurements are listed on the plans, so you could even work from ‘Letter’ sized prints. The plans have plenty of detail, but the instructions are limited to what I have printed on the plans sheets themselves – this is a very simple boat, and does not require the instruction books which I send out with my more serious plans.

Basic plywood requirements are two sheets of 6mm/1/4″ marine plywood. The boat can be built from 4mm/5/32″ ply, but additional bottom panel stiffening is recommended.

Price $25 Australian, including postage and packing 

PDF Download copy available for $15 Australian

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Among the men who ply the various trades, I have observed that the ones who work with boats - designers, builders, and users - are usually happier than most others, and of these, the very happiest in my opinion are boat-builders who use edged tools and work in wood. Such work makes demands on, and seems therefore to satisfy, the whole man - hand, eye, ear, brain, and heart.

Admittedly, I'm prejudiced. Not everyone is a dedicated hard-core boat-building nut. But I think all of us, from the whittled-chip-in-the -puddle days on, have some streak in our nature that is drawn to the making and using of boats. Therefore any development of that ingredient can't help but add to the development of the whole person."
Harold Payson "Go Build Your Own Boat" Van Nostrand Reinhold 1983

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