28' Crowninshield Camden Class Sloop (2014) - JANE
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28′ gaff-rigged Camden-class sloop. Design B. B. Crowninshield 1915. Constructed with CAD on my laptop during travel from plans by WoodenBoat. Parts CNC-machined. Wood-Epoxi. Built 2 with friends. This is #2. Had no stress in building, therefore it took ages but was very rewarding. Took some freedom in the detailing. Sails very fine. Head-turner.
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Your boat is a showpiece. The attention to detail is very impressive and I am jealous of your boatbuilding talent. I am doubly impressed that you took the time to create a CNC program and was able use that to produce a second boat with your friend. Congratulations on your beautiful knockabout.
By way of introduction, I built PONYO, the other Camden Class Knockabout on display. I am sure I enjoyed building mine as much as you did yours, but my build was less sophisticated. I manually lofted the lines, milled the lumber and put it together with two changes from the original plans: I used strip planking and I separated the keel from the rudder.
If only we were closer so we could sail alongside.
Hello Paul,
Thank you very much for the kind words. I had found Ponyo on Instagram before. That’s when you realize where the good yacht photographers like Alison Langley, Tyler Fields and Benjamin Mendlowitz, to name a few, live and work. That is very lacking here, as you can tell from my miserable photos.
A boat building class at WoodenBoat school is one of my long time dreams. Who knows? Anyway, I really admire being able to develop a boat in pencil from a spreadsheet with a few approximate bases and end up with a streamlined aesthetic, wooden work of art.
I know your problem with a yard full of boats, too.
Now that I’ve tried digital boat building, I’d like to build a boat conventionally next. I’m very excited about that. Thanks to WoodenBoat magazine and OffCenterHarbor, I’m starting to have the confidence to do it.
Yes, it’s a pity that we can’t race a bit, but maybe you’ll come to Europe sometime, so make a detour to Upper Bavaria in any case. And if all goes well, I’ll make a trip to the USA this summer with maybe maybe a little sailing detour in Maine. Who knows what will emerge then.
Best regards,
Peter
I spent some time with the drawings on your web site and I think you might have had a problem similar to one I face. I want to install a single point lifting harness and I see you installed two anchor points for your harness, but it appears that the mid-point between them is just inside the companionway. On my boat, the center of gravity is also just inside the companionway. If I am right, how did you rig your harness so that the boat lifts so well balanced and not bow down?
Hello Paul,
You found one of the few points that really went wrong.The hoist harness does not work. You have to sit all the way at the end of the boat to compensate and then it pushes against the edge of the deckhouse. That’s why I don’t use it. Unfortunately, a classic thinking error.
I had once thought about making a steel U-shaped bracket that sort of goes around the roof of the deckhouse, but then it turned out that lifting with slings also works well.
Many greetings,
Peter
I’m going to try something, and I’ll let you know how it works. A boatbuilder friend, actually from Germany, Jens Lange manages a small fleet of Herreshoff S-Boats and was faced with the same problem. He moved the forward lift point to the more forward keel bolt and put a deck plate in the deckhouse positioned where he could remove the plate and run the harness through it. That way he is able to get the hoist centered over the balance point.
When PONYO comes out of storage in the spring I’m going to install a similar system also using 3/8″ Dyneema as the harness.
Your boat is a showpiece. The attention to detail is very impressive and I am jealous of your boatbuilding talent. I am doubly impressed that you took the time to create a CNC program and was able use that to produce a second boat with your friend. Congratulations on your beautiful knockabout.
By way of introduction, I built PONYO, the other Camden Class Knockabout on display. I am sure I enjoyed building mine as much as you did yours, but my build was less sophisticated. I manually lofted the lines, milled the lumber and put it together with two changes from the original plans: I used strip planking and I separated the keel from the rudder.
If only we were closer so we could sail alongside.
Cheers,
Paul Koch
Hello Paul,
Thank you very much for the kind words. I had found Ponyo on Instagram before. That’s when you realize where the good yacht photographers like Alison Langley, Tyler Fields and Benjamin Mendlowitz, to name a few, live and work. That is very lacking here, as you can tell from my miserable photos.
A boat building class at WoodenBoat school is one of my long time dreams. Who knows? Anyway, I really admire being able to develop a boat in pencil from a spreadsheet with a few approximate bases and end up with a streamlined aesthetic, wooden work of art.
I know your problem with a yard full of boats, too.
Now that I’ve tried digital boat building, I’d like to build a boat conventionally next. I’m very excited about that. Thanks to WoodenBoat magazine and OffCenterHarbor, I’m starting to have the confidence to do it.
Yes, it’s a pity that we can’t race a bit, but maybe you’ll come to Europe sometime, so make a detour to Upper Bavaria in any case. And if all goes well, I’ll make a trip to the USA this summer with maybe maybe a little sailing detour in Maine. Who knows what will emerge then.
Best regards,
Peter
Hi Peter,
So that we don’t lose contact after this is done, my email is pkochretired@gmail.com.
I spent some time with the drawings on your web site and I think you might have had a problem similar to one I face. I want to install a single point lifting harness and I see you installed two anchor points for your harness, but it appears that the mid-point between them is just inside the companionway. On my boat, the center of gravity is also just inside the companionway. If I am right, how did you rig your harness so that the boat lifts so well balanced and not bow down?
Paul
Hello Paul,
You found one of the few points that really went wrong.The hoist harness does not work. You have to sit all the way at the end of the boat to compensate and then it pushes against the edge of the deckhouse. That’s why I don’t use it. Unfortunately, a classic thinking error.
I had once thought about making a steel U-shaped bracket that sort of goes around the roof of the deckhouse, but then it turned out that lifting with slings also works well.
Many greetings,
Peter
I’m going to try something, and I’ll let you know how it works. A boatbuilder friend, actually from Germany, Jens Lange manages a small fleet of Herreshoff S-Boats and was faced with the same problem. He moved the forward lift point to the more forward keel bolt and put a deck plate in the deckhouse positioned where he could remove the plate and run the harness through it. That way he is able to get the hoist centered over the balance point.
When PONYO comes out of storage in the spring I’m going to install a similar system also using 3/8″ Dyneema as the harness.
Keeping fingers crossed.