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| "Lisa B. Good" -A Trailable Shantyboat- |
| Description and Construction Notes Length 16’ Beam 7’-6” at trailer bed 8’ at rubrails Weight about 2500 lbs gross Displacement 5” Headroom 6’-5” at centre Power 5 to 10 hp outboard Speed 5 knots, downhill, with the wind behind her Features “Lisa B. Good” is the result of a discussion on the Yahoo Shantyboat Group. The design turned out to be an economy sized Shantyboat, about the minimum size that offers stand-up headroom, decent deck space, and long-weekend accommodations for a couple. I got thinking about the boat’s overall length today. I’d build her 16 foot as drawn. That length is handy, because you can easily get lumber that long. But there’s no reason why you couldn’t splice the longitudinals and facias to add a few feet to the middle of the boat, if you needed more room. Just keep the ends the same and take the extra length for the cabin or the decks as you want. Lisa B. is a very simple boat, and construction will be particularly straightforward; should be a quick build. There are only two curves on the boat, the bottom of the hull, and the crown in the cabin roof. The wood is all construction grade lumber and plywood. Use is made of epoxy and glass, but just enough to ensure long life without rot or excessive maintenance. “Lisa B. Good” has great lower decks. They’re covered to keep the rain and sun off. The forward deck is wide enough to allow crew to pass in front of you while you’re sitting in a deck chair. The aft deck accepts chairs comfortably. Make sure there’s a proper safety net and lifelines up on the bow, especially if there are kids aboard. A kid could be run down and into the prop in seconds, with that square bow. Gives me the willies thinking about it. The upper deck is strong enough to allow a 200 pounder to walk up there, but it’s not for continuous use. Freeboard is not excessive, but the bulwarks, freeing ports, and sealed decks will help in a hard chance. Lisa B. is stiff enough initially. A 200 pounder standing in one corner up forward will push it 3” lower than the other side, and drop the bow 2½” lower than the stern. She will right herself from heeling to about 40 degrees, but very shortly after that she’ll go onto her side and stay there. Clearly a boat for sheltered waters. See the full arrangement drawing. The cabin is small but adequate, 9’ X 7-6”. There’s room to set up a full-sized standard double bed, 4’-6” X 6’-6”. The galley is compact. The fridge should be an icebox set out on the aft deck. The stove should be a propane camp stove. It might be best if the sink were a plastic dishpan. Deck chairs are suggested for interior seating. It's a more flexible arrangement, because you can use them on deck, and fold them up at night too. As drawn, Lisa B. has a head with an outside door, but it could be inside easily enough. A bucket would be the best head. And a 5 gallon bucket of warm water topside, fitted with a kitchen sink squirter hose, that would work better than anything else for a shower. The engine is simple, an outboard kicker clamped onto the stern bulwark. I struggled with the steering, looked at motor wells, extended tillers. I give up. The best arrangement would be control and steering cables to a helm under the starboard forward window. Maybe have an external steering wheel too, so you can sit outside. The fuel tank should be a portable tank strapped down to the aft deck. Lisa B should be a great trailer boat, except at 2500 lbs dry we might wish she were a little lighter. The beam leaves just enough width for the trailer wheels, while staying below the legal 8-6". If you build a simple custom trailer, you can keep the height down and use her as a camper. She'd make a great hunt cabin too. You might On to page 6 or 7 or 8 for more construction notes... |
| You've come to the page to download plans for the little shantyboat Lisa B. Good. My comments and construction notes are found on this page, and on pages 6, 7, and 8. Just print out these pages for the construction notes. Then click here to find the drawings. A few words about printing the drawings. They are stored at the drawing site as JPG files, and as such, they are quite compact. But you know, it's really easy to print out drawings the size of postage stamps, or drawings that fill several pages. Now you may have a good graphics programme on your computer, and you might even know how to use it, so you can grab them and print them out to fill one page nicely. You might even have a "Size to Fill Page" button. But if you're like me and not too sure about all that, or maybe you only have Microsoft Paint on your machine, then you might get reasonably sized prints by following the procedure below. No guarantees though. Once you're at the drawing site, keep clicking on an image until it won't get any larger, then punch the Save Button and save the drawing to a file on your computer as a BMP file. (Note that when you name it, you may need to put the complete name in there. For example you would name a drawing "Lisa.bmp", not just "Lisa", otherwise your computer might not recognize the drawing as a Paint file.) After you've downloaded the plans into your folder, then you can open them up individually and print them in landscape format. They should pretty well fill a page. Charles House kindly helped in getting these drawings on line. He did a great job getting the file size right down, while still keeping them legible. Thanks again Charles! |
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