BUILD YOUR OWN

 

TRAWLER

 


by R. Bruce Roberts-Goodson

 

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Chapter 1.

GETTING STARTED

My boat or a family boat. Where and how will you use the boat?

Where will you keep it? How much boat do you need? Using

the boat to generate income. What speed RANGE do you

want? What can you afford? How much will it cost? Keeping

within your budget. Where to look, new orsecond-hand or

build? Dealing with a broker. Surveys. Taxes. Chartering your

boat. Trailerable Trawler Yachts & Cruisers Fishermen types.

 

Chapter 2.

CHOOSING THE HULL TYPE

Semi-displacement or full-displacement hull types. Planing.

Planing strakes. Chine or round bilge. Power Catamarans.

Formulas and technical terms and what they mean.

Displacement length ratios. Hull construction materials.

 

Chapter 3.

PASSAGEMAKERS

History. Hull Design. Engineering. Number of engines. Fuel

management. Sail assistance. Stabilising methods and

equipment. Special charts and graphs.

 

Chapter 4.

ACCOMMODATION

Accommodation; number of berths. Cabin soles. How many heads? Designing and equipping a galley. Various fuels for your stove (gas, diesel, alcohol, paraffin). Placement of sink and stowage of food and other stores. Showers, hot water and pressure water. Water tankage. Waste tanks. Comfortable seating; measurements and suggestions. Chart table. Sail stowage. Refrigerators and ice boxes. Lighting. Ventilation. Heating. Air conditioning

 

Chapter 5.

OUTSIDE LIVING.

Decks. Deck Surfaces. Fly bridges, Cockpits, Outside seating.

Deck areas for lounging. Swim platforms. Life rails .Pulpits

and bowsprits. Handrails. Deck wash pumps and their many

uses. Awnings. Hatch covers. Bimini covers. Windage.

 

Chapter 6.

ENGINES AND ASSOCIATED GEAR

Single or twin. Cruising range. Diesel or petrol (gas). Single or

twin. Inboard, Stern gear. Propellers. Stern drive or outboard.

Other propulsion arrangements. Engineroom layout.

Engine compartments - Accessibility. Engine room insulation.

Engine bearers and beds. Engine mountings, Stuffing boxes

and bearings. Exhaust Systems. Understanding horsepower.

Powering your motor cruiser. Powering displacement hulls.

Powering semi-displacement hulls. Powering planing hulls.

Hydraulic-v- mechanical steering. autopilots. navigation

systems. alarms.

 

Chapter 7.

MARINE ELECTRICS & SYSTEMS

Electrical Installations. AC and DC systems. Managing your

electrical supply - v - usage. Domestic batteries. Engine

starting batteries. Battery chargers. Generating sets.

 

Chapter 8.

OTHER EQUIPMENT

Radar. radios and other communications. dinghy. inflatable

tenders. rigid dinghies. davits. Anchors and chain. anchor

winch. cleats and bitts. fenders. mooring lines.

 

Chapter 9.

SAFETY EQUIPMENT

Lightening protection, bonding, fire extinguishers, smoke

alarms, life jackets and life vests, harnesses and safety lines,

man overboard, emergency steering, air bags, through hulls

and sea cocks. radar reflectors, life rafts. epirb. safe sun.

guns. things to stay away from, drugs, smuggling,

pornographic literature, carrying books or videos that may

offend other cultures. Dress code.

 

Chapter 10.

CHOOSING THE BUILDING SITE

Location and size of space required, Building tents,

Temporary or permanent buildings.

 

Chapter 11.

BUILDING IN FIBERGLASS - MATERIALS & TOOLS

Fiberglass materials, chopped strand mat, continuous roving,

woven roving, resin types, core materials, balsa, foam cores,

polyester resins, epoxy resins, carbon fiber gel coats,

respirators and breathing masks, acetone, release agents,

barrier & cleansing creams, fiberglass – safety equipment, ear

and hearing protection, paint scrapers, disk sanders, mohair,

rollers, other sanding devices, fire retardant resin.

 

Chapter 12.

BUILDING IN FIBERGLASS – BUILDING THE HULL

Building a male mould, laying out the patterns, making the

frames, setting up the frames, the battens, adding fairing

strips, finishing the mould, open form versus solid form

moulds,fiberglass - installing the core, non-cored areas of the

hull, single skin over a male mould, laminating with a team,

finishing the hull, finishing techniques

 

Chapter 13.

BUILDING IN FIBERGLASS – DECKS, TANKS &

APPENDANGES.

Stern tubes, marking out the bulkheads, hardboard in-place,

deck mould, applying the deck laminate, installing the deck

core, teak-decks, bonding the bulkheads, sandwich decks and

cabin, master deck mould, female moulded and panel decks

and superstructures, bonding the deck, bulwark stiffeners,

hull deck joins, production moulds, vacuum bagging, camber

patterns, suggested joinery dimensions, interior joinery.

 

Chapter 14.

BUILDING IN TIMBER.

cold molding, strip planking – wood epoxy, building the

frames, assembling the basic hull structure, installing the

planking round bilge hulls, trimming the panels, planking the

hull, choice of adhesive, selecting the fastenings, fairing and

finishing the hull, turning the hull, solid floors – web floors,

traditional and not so traditional planking, ballast keels on

wooden boats, interior framing, deck beams, plywood decking

sheathing plywood decks and superstructure.

 

Chapter 15.

CUSTOM BUILDING IN STEEL OR ALUMINUM - PRE-CUT KITS

Creating the design, making the calculations and preparing

the cutting files. CNC Cutting, assembling the hull deck and

superstructure. Several Roberts designed TRAWLERS are

used to illustrate all of the steps in designing and building from

a kit.

 

Chapters 16.

SELECTION OF TRAWLERS YOU BUILD.

APPENDICES - ADDITIONAL INFORMATION OF INTEREST.