Plans to build the 24' Chesapeke Vee-Bottom Carolina Dory
Introducing the Chesapeke 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.
One of my newest designs, here is the Chesapeke. This boat is designed as a rugged workboat type hull for heavy duty use. As a Carolina Dory, it maintains its heritage of powering along well with very modest power and being able to handle the rough stuff with ease. This boat, however, has the added benefit of a vee bottom to smooth out the chop and keep a good turn of speed going when the seas get choppy. The Chesapeke is built of frames of mahogany, fir or oak. You can use standard lumberyard milled construction grade lumber if you wish, and it's covered with exterior grade plywood, either fir, birch or mahogany, for a low cost, lightweight, but very rugged hull.
Free Study Plans for the Chesapeke 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 Chesapeke Vee-Bottom Carolina Dory - Only $79.99
The construction plans for the Chesapeke Vee-Bottom 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. After completing the transaction, use the "Return to Vendor" link and you will be taken to a page where you are able to download the plans instantly. California residents must pay 7.75% sales tax.
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