Plans to build the 15' Alamitos Vee-Bottom Carolina Dory
Introducing the Alamitos Vee-Bottom Carolina Dory. Easy to build plans are available for immediate download.
About Vee Bottom Carolina Dories
Quite a number of people have written me and asked for a vee bottom version of my Carolina Dories. These vee bottom Carolina dories offer all of the advantages of the flat bottom version, low power, good speed good sea keeping abilities, and ease of construction, with a more modern, vee bottomed hull, to keep the pounding down and improve the performance in a chop. They're a bit more complex to build than their flat bottomed cousins, but are still well within the realm of an amateur boat builder. They're constructed of standard milled construction lumber, available at any lumber yard, and covered with exterior grade plywood. When you epoxy and fiberglass cover the outsides, they result in an extremely rugged boat, one that will serve for many years with modest maintenance.
This boat was designed for a local Southern California customer who wanted a small, light but beamy boat for fishing up to a few miles offshore. The Alamitos will get the job done and handle choppy water with ease. Anything from a 10 to 25 horse motor can be used to get a decent planing speed while using very little gas. If you want a compact hull that can take the weather, you can't find many better than the Alamitos.
Free Study Plans for the Alamitos Vee-Bottom Carolina Dory
Our study plans are two of the actual construction drawings. They're not enough information for you to build the boat, but they do give you the overall boat size, shape and construction methods. This is a pdf file readable with the free Adobe Acrobat pdf file reader.
Complete Construction Plans for the Alamitos Vee-Bottom Carolina Dory - Only $59.99
The construction plans for the Alamitos are available for download from the Internet in Adobe pdf format. To purchase, you will be taken to the PayPal site where you may use a credit card, debit card, or e-check. It's safe and secure. California residents must pay 7.75% sales tax.
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