Eva - Gartside Riff

[BrianP]

Having sold all my boats and trying hard to stay off the water, a favourite design of mine, Paul Gartside's Riff became available as an unfinished hull. She's 12'3" by quite beamy 5'7", same dimensions as a Cornish Cormorant.

Here's Riff in strip plank http://www.gartsideboats.com/custom-boatbuilding/12-ft-sailing-dinghy-riff-design-136.html



This epoxy ply version became available and I could not resist her. Just brought her home today.





She is a little bit bigger than a Scow and similar to Oughtred's Shearwater, just a little beamier and larger sterned.

Brian

[Jeremy]

I don't often say this, but that, Brian, is a very nice boat indeed.  There is something that seems just right in her lines, probably because she has that rare quality of being simple yet looking good from pretty much any angle.

[BrianP]

Thank's Jeremy. The designer Paul Gartside is a Cornishman, now living in Canada, so he has a west country eye and draws some very lovely gaffers and row boats.

Could any of the experienced builders, although most seem very busy just now, give an idea to the sequence of fitting out.

Need to clean up the hull after standing in a barn for 5 years.
Can finish the centreboard and fit it. Just how do you make sure you drill a straight hole from one side of the case to the other?

Is it then any bulkheads. Then floors, then gunnels, seat cleats and seat and thwarts? Or gunnels first so the hull is in the correct shape?

With the transom and case in sapele, will carry on with sapele for gunnels and seats. Anyone know a good source?

Brian

[BrianP]

Thank's Jeremy. The designer Paul Gartside is a Cornishman, now living in Canada, so he has a west country eye and draws some very lovely gaffers and row boats.

Could any of the experienced builders, although most seem very busy just now, give an idea to the sequence of fitting out.

Need to clean up the hull after standing in a barn for 5 years.
Can finish the centreboard and fit it. Just how do you make sure you drill a straight hole from one side of the case to the other?

Is it then any bulkheads. Then floors, then gunnels, seat cleats and seat and thwarts? Or gunnels first so the hull is in the correct shape?

With the transom and case in sapele, will carry on with sapele for gunnels and seats. Anyone know a good source?

Brian

[momist]

Brian, I think the first thing would be the breasthooks, and either a spacer to maintain the beam, or bulkheads if there are any, prior to the gunnel.  
Paul Gartside still contributes regularly to Water Craft, have you thought of contacting him for advice?

Ian