a Cc oO b r a Craft Print Fin-Tailed 15-ft. Outboard Runabout No. 298 wi . JA open throttle, this craft rides on top of the water By PIL AM Dacre with @ minimum of disturbance and, because of SED with any outboard motor from 10 kp its beveled chines and trim tabs, it can make to 50 hp, Cobra will achieve speeds of from abrupt turns safely and without waste-effort | 20 mph to 45 mph and will leave most kit or spray. factory-built boats well in its wake. At wide- Cost to build will vary with wood used—fir or SIDE DECK COVERING BOARD SHEER LINE DROPPING BLOCK SIDE BATTEN STIFFENER TRANSOM KNEE — HERTER'S KNEE —— STRUT BATTERY FLOOR bara A rae KESLSON GLOVE COMPARTMENTBOAT BUILDER'S HANDBOOK 85 ee ee ee SHEER PLATE mahogany—and equipment utilized, but will average around $150. Time to build will vary with individuals, anywhere from two weeks to two months, but the more time and care you take, the better boat you're going to have. Construction. For a two-tone metallic Anish, use plastic-coated fir plywood for sides and bot- tom (see Materials List); for decking, use African mahogany (Okoume, Gaboon, or Utile); for framing, use red or white oak, or mahogany, cr fir, or Sitka spruce—for best performance, use oak or Philippine mahogany for all framing be- ‘Outboard motor throttle wide open, Cobra will ride on, top of the water with @ minimum of disturbance and ‘will hit speeds up to 45 mph STATEMENT OF USES USES: Deluxe outboard sports runabout. Combines styling. in.y amidships—21 in aft—17 WEIGHT: 275 Ibs. bare hull, oak bottom frames, hemlock side and top frames. SEATING CAPACITY: Three persons. CONSTRUCTION: %in. plywood bottom with ¥4: ed, use 10 x tycnsom to 17 in. or to where cavitation ia absent, An vic storting unit will reduce maximum speed by 3 mph, Speed will also be reduced if boat is built of 5s materials than specified.26 BUILDING FORM NOT. REQUIRED: FRAME IS SELF-FORMING Toe-Nale Tenses 0 FLOOR a use sueronrs BSEESEO® Chane wy pvace Jow and including the chines, hemlock or spruce for framing above to distribute strength and weight correctly. Bottom plywood should be AA or AB exterior, three-ply fir, not five-ply. Plywood can be jointed, but if you can afford-to pay the premium asked for plywood longer than the standard 8-ft. Tengths, get fullength sheets and use it. ‘Cut out patterns of the sheer plates and stem BOAT BUILDER'S HANDBOOK (see Figs. 13 and 6 and 7) and transfer directly to lumber to be used for them, To make these pat- terns, place heavy wrapping paper on panel of plywood, mark lay- out lines (distance from center line for sheer plates and vertical upright lines for stem), tack 1%4- in, finishing nails at points indi- cated and then spring a {gx 1-in. wood batten around nails and draw curve along edge of batten. Saw sheer plates from 1x8 stock and secure joints at sides with %-in. plywood gussets, daub- ing all contact surfaces with Weld- ‘wood or Elmer's glue and fasten- ing with either #6 x 1-in. jh wood serews or 1-in, annular threaded nails. Make one left and one right side sheer plate, with the gusset on the un- derside of each. Cut the %-in. plywood stem gus- set to shape and fasten it to underside at fore ends of plates as with other gussets. The after ends of the sheer plate assembly should measure exactly 6 ft, % in. from edge to edge. ‘Make the stem by sandwiching a core of 15-in. MATERIALS LI "Size and Description Use 14 1386" x10" keelson (2% 4 planed to 1/4" thick) ex dig ‘ater hee xox ise chines rigrae att elampe 16x10 xd ‘sheer plates ad (x4) trams. XBig" x12 x6) bottom ames XB¥er x12 x10) ‘tek beams—also love comp. framing BWexTWr re 2x8) Senne ere Sevusy uw Gel2) ater deck supports High totiom battens, aise cay fection ates vo @ nex) spain eek battens Gates fre 7 ee) Sige tte cater deck batten ira riyire x8), Tyre aa 1 seas C26) 2 x2 eae Bra kana 2 Ninre 9 Thiet lumber is soecied, thi tal thick 2 Miners 962 hchnes lumber is specie, this ts ess vss at umber gare ae U'—nowerr tlekess"nay wry ton (ir ana wlth ay yay fom Ye" to Sgrconpensete “rations in consiruelion PLYwooo fore ands—tran- yen ites sem sides iderfore side plywood—att tckina —tore and aft nal nal love compartment ry AF or mahoqany—3 ply Dulkhead 23 3 Inside part of fs 2" x 7S ply—ir of mahouasy raised aft deck coamings 5 plod fer ear deck sain ate Gx 10", et. 3 piv AB—AC" teat bottom ard backing Aids Sea" fr AC foo bearas X26Y, x 3034" Br AC for bares ane a a ie aes a i Ytuen cuaes_fuie orton fu nas aac te Smear i ee a Feel satan Sires sponge rubber, seat back 1.4.29" x 57 (tom 2 197 x string plastic fabviem2 yas. 38" width FIBER GLASS, 4 ols tape—covers chines snd transom Higuid resin; required for sbore RESINOTE ‘easpoontuls Camiset Aeaspeonfl accelerator A FITTINGS—EQUIPMENT. 2 ‘Snorkel” Radio Antennas, Whitney, Chicago 3 step plates 2818, Kainer Wesco Corp, 761 Lex- ington St. Chicago 7, I 1 steering heel—19" ‘ia, #940-Kai “Thuncerbirg Design (or Aluminum Mi ‘Auburn, W..) 2 fom haa i 2 i t Chica 1 Herter (Harter, Waseca, Minn) 2 2tfenis alominum molding Loe 116 x 16” aluminum fr strearlined motor Hit Mae flt at wl a