A few years ago I built this boat. A rowboat named 'Alison'. Its design was the South Haven Dory. Its construction method was stitch-and-glue, a composite construction method of plywood, epoxy, and fiberglass cloth--no screws, no nails. The boat was build for just a few hundred dollars total, the biggest expense was quality marine epoxy.

1. Building the Alisona South Haven Dory by T.S. Drown email: tyler@drown.org flickr: tsdrown twitter: @tsdrown web: http://ts.drown.org

2. After finishing building a gaff-rigged sloop… which had a hull based on the dory

3. and learning about the ‘dori’ while staying in Northwest France Flickr:abac077

4. I looked into dory designs

5. & decided to build a dory as my next project. The Fog Warning (1885) Winslow Homer

6. The South Haven Dory is a row boat based on the lines of the St. Pierre dory http://dory-man.blogspot.com/2010/04/st-pierre-dory.html

7. The construction method is the Stitch-and-Glue (plywood-epoxy-fiberglass composite)

8. Designed by Paul VandenBosch.It is available free online: http://cruisenews.net/construction.html

9. Materials:°3’ sheets of ¼" plywood °Marine Epoxy°Paint & spar varnish °15 yds of 6oz glass cloth°5 2"×4"×8‘Total cost:$100-300

10. Cut in half 6—2'×8' sheetsScarf sheets  3—2'×16's

11. Loft and cut sheets to form hull

12. Holes along edges drilledHull zip-tied together

13. The hull is flipped

14. Stitch-&-Glue-Method Chine Source: The Double Paddle Dory Design By Einsteen

15. Chines are filleted withepoxy + microbeads + wood flour (fine sawdust)

16. Fiberglass cloth is cut& epoxied to filleted chine

17. Hull is flipped againReadied for sanding

18. Zipties are sanded offChines are rounded

19. Flip hullEpoxy gunwales

20. Make oars from 2'×2's I ripped 2—2'×4‘Taper oar into & paddle

21. Plane & sand oars

22. Add internal frame + seat

23. Epoxy and paint hull

24. Wait a few years & go to college

25. Move boat to neglected West Philadelphia backyard

26. Clear backyard of brushBuy new paint

28. Paint cockpit

29. Paint hull bottom Sand, repaint hull

30. Cut, file, and sand sculling notch on transom

31. SandPatchRepaintcockpitbeige

32. Almost ready for water

33. Sand &Revarnish oars & brightwork

34. Install thole pins, fulcrums for oars

35. Splice line to make handle

36. Launch Day

37. Take boat to water

38. Christen with Champagne

39. closer…

40. Put in water

41. Row away

42. THE END email: tyler@drown.org flickr: tsdrown twitter: @tsdrown web: http://tyler.drown.org