Bruce roberts yacht designs offers custom boat plans, cutting files and boat kits for steel boats or aluminum boat designs, cut to size boat kits, part built boats or complete boats. bruce roberts yacht designs offer boat building project management arrangements for boats built overseas at affordable prices. sailboat and powerboat building plans and kits available for building steel boats. Steel is an excellent boatbuilding material, proven in use worldwide. however, due to the relatively high weight compared to other boatbuilding materials, and the care required in the design stage with regard to hull development, structural integrity, stability, and balance, the plans used to build a steel boat should be intended […]. A custom design in steel could run to 10 percent of the boat’s value. chined construction, a method that greatly simplifies hull plating, is an attractive option for amateur builders. with little more than a welding machine and good cutting and handling equipment, a steel hull can be backyard built..
Together with my friends i build the boat of my imagination and plans. in this part 1. find the keel instead and build the hull. keel+hull (diy 39ft.steel-boat-building9 - boatbuilder gustav. Construction of the hull and deck is of steel, using longitudinal stringers over transverse frames. the pilothouse and the hatchcovers to the hold are of aluminium or plywood to reduce the displacement and lower the cg. powering can be to the owners' requirements to suit the intended use of the particular boat.. Engine bed mounts welded in over the bilge. bronze steering quadrant. stainless steel destroyer wheel.this hull is very well built and would make an ideal bluewater cruiser or circumnavigator. priced at under half of the cost of a new hull build out, this boat is a great project..
