Where can I get free boat plans? I want to build a small tug boat as 5-6 m (this form) any info welcome
Although there are plans free boat online, you're better off buying a set of plans for a boat designer established. you invest your money, time and labor to build your boat.
There are many drawings by boat on the line. the first thing you must do is decide what technique of construction you want to use and what equipment to try to build on. (Fiberglass traditional wood, plywood, steel, etc.)
the process simpler boat construction is plywood covered with epoxy and fiberglass.
Explore this site Glen L Design for cruisers tug designs
http://boatdesigns.com/departments.asp?d ...
free small tugboat plans are available at
http://smalltugs.com
Hope this helps
Thank you all for giving me advice on this. Display a message when I built one. Flag
I understand your thoughts ... but, as a boat builder, and as a man who other teachers to build boats - I can easily verify that the plans "free" you get from any person be whole, worth exactly what you paid ... Nothing!
I do not sell the plans, I have nothing to gain from this board - but believe me, you do.
Think about it. free plans are floating around the Internet ... Why? because nobody will buy them. These are those designed so long ago, no sane person would be entitled to build today. Why? Because new techniques of boat, methods, materials, etc. making it much easier to build, and the result is much stronger, better, and free maintaince ... that really is a waste of money to buy good lumber good when you use it to build a boat that will not last as long as you do.
With today's resins boatbuilding, technology and methods - the construction of a wooden boat and fiberglass, then could not be easier, and the result will survive your grandkids grandkids grandchildren.
For what you want ... Plans are not going to cost you more than anyway ... and if you buy from a reliable source (such as Glen-L) I guarantee you - they see you and support you until the end of your project. I guarantee you that you have questions ... at least a dozen before they even finish reading plans, and at least a dozen others while you are building your boat. Do you honestly believe that you can call and get answers from anyone offering "free" plans?
Someone like Glen-L will not just have answers - but I know that in the case of Glen-L, they have built all the boats they have plans for, and you'll get tips and replies one of the people who actually built the same boat you are building. You can even order "review" of plans for $ 10.00 and they come with a complete bill of materials list, so you can even guess what the entire cost of your equipment before ordering the complete set plans.
The free shots you get are free - and it is a matter for you ... But how do you know the same boat float? Or how do you know (once you get a motor on it) the vessel will not tend to go in the big wide circles? Now, you spent all your money on products you use can not, and you lost all your hard work, sweat and blood.
You know as well as I that anyone could put "free" schemes in cyberspace, and shipping and handling $ 10 ... and probably make more money, then we both together, the sale "free" plans for sending a boat, no one has built - or at least did not h.
Posted on May 26, 2010.