New Construction
New construction on wooden or fiberglass boats can be a new mast, new galley, or a new boat. I can design what is needed or we can obtain a design for your new construction. I have extensive experience in most types of traditional and contemporary wooden boat construction.
What's Special About Custom Built Boats?
- A custom built boat is your boat, designed and built the way you want it to be, for your own particular use.
- Designs can be supplied by you or we can find a stock design to suit your pleasure. We can modify such designs for your special needs, or develop a new design specifically for you.
- You have a wide choice of construction methods: traditional, such as lapstrake, carvel, seambatten, strip, or contemporary, such as cold molded, plywood, or plywood stitch and tape. Or a combination adapted to your personal tastes.
- Choice of wood. You can opt for durable local woods, including oak, spruce, pine, hackmatack, ash, locust—as many as six different kinds can go into a dory or a skiff. Or you can use tropical hardwoods such as Honduras mahogany, Thai teak, or African Iroko.
- Finish can be varnish or paint, or a combination, again according to your choice.
Your boat may be a dream for the future but I’d like a chance to help you realize your dream. Get in touch to explore the possibilites. Just email, or call 630.336.1840.
Current Projects
Updated October 5, 2008:
This week we have put on and laminated the toerails.
More to come next week - keep watching!
The Slideshow has ALL the photos we have taken (from the beginning to now)!! Click Here to view our Interactive Slideshow (make sure that you also click on the symbol at the lower left of the slideshow screen to see ALL the photos)
This boat is FOR SALE !!! You can buy this boat at it's current stage of completion (to finish it out yourself), or we will finish it to any stage you wish. If interested in discussing pricing and options, contact Wayne Shibley at (630)336-1840 or email at wayne@wood-boats.com.
For a quick overview, keep reading (or take a look at the new photos at the bottom of this page!! (click HERE to jump right to this week's NEW photos)
New wooden troller yacht under construction. A George Buehler design, a 38' Diesel Duck, that we have added 2' in length to bring it up to 40'.
We started this project in June 2006, working on construction during the summers of 2006, 2007, and now 2008.
This Wooden Diesel Duck is being built at Rentner Marine, in the Chicago area:
The beginning (June 2006), just a pile of wood ...
Bill building frames:
July 2, 2006 - Finished laminating all Keel Sections !!!
July 15, 2006 - Phase 1 complete!!! Frames, Floor Timbers and Keel pieces all cut, shaped, drilled and fitted.
The guys from Rentner Marine helping move the Transom into position for mounting (a heavy load):
Keel is completely assembled and bolted, including Stem, Floor Timbers, and Transom:
July 24, 2006 - Wayne putting the first Frame into position on the Keel:
More Frames being installed:
July 29, 2006 - All the Frames are installed and trued up!! Now it is really starting to look like a boat!!!
Bill screwing in the Intermediate Frames:
Wayne Putting on more rows of the side planking:
Sept. 16, 2006 - the side planking is finished!
Sept. 25, 2006 - boat being moved for winter storage.
Oct 1, 2006 - the boat is in storage for the winter!!
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June 3, 2007 - back for the summer(2007) and starting on construction again.
Just arrived - our new engine, a John Deere 80 HP Diesel:
June 18, 2007 - laminating the 1st deck beam:
Putting in the support beams for the cabin sole:
The Boat so far:
Bill, climbing up inside:
Wayne, putting the 1st deck beam in place:
Extending the bulkhead up to the deck beam:
June 25, 2007: Bill putting on the Upper Side Planks:
The jig for bending and laminating the Deck Beams:
Upper Side Planks and rear engine room bulkhead are installed:
Some of the aft Deck Beams in place:
Forward cabin with deck beams & sole support beams in:
The aft cabin:
The boat so far (July 1, 2007):
July 8, 2007: The Side Deck Beams being put in:
Bending the Carlin into place:
The Carlin is notched to fit the Side Deck Beams into it:
Gluing the Carlin in place with epoxy:
The boat so far (July 8, 2007):
July 9, 2007: building up the forward bulkhead for the engine room:
2nd layer added to the carlins:
Hatch support beams being put in:
Engine beds being fitted in:
The boat so far (July 15, 2007):
July 16, 2007: Planking the aft deck:
Aft cabin top planking (inside view):
Forward deck support beams:
Forward & Side deck planking:
The boat so far (July 21, 2007):
August 1, 2007: glueing down 2 layers of plywood on top of all the planked decks!
August 7, 2007: Drilling holes to put Stopwaters into the keel:
Fuel tank supports in the engine room:
Coating the Keel with epoxy:
Painting the bilges to get ready to plank the bottom:
August 14, 2007- starting to plank the bottom, the 1st plank:
More bottom planks going being put on:
August 21, 2007: putting the engine in. The guys from Rentner Marine lifting the engine into the boat.
The engine in the boat at last:
Bottom planks being put on:
August 25, 2007: The boat so far (looking good):
Sept. 2007 - The bottom planking up to the transom:
The bottom planking up toward the bow:
The bottom planking is all finished!!
Oct. 2007 - the boat being moved into storage for the winter:
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June 2008 - resuming the boat building project for the summer of 2008!
June 15, 2008 -glueing a beveled edge to the inside edge of the frames:
Putting in extra supports for the cabin sole beams:
Putting in one of the bulkheads in the forward cabin:
Bill putting in a bulkhead:
June 22, 2008 - putting in more bulkheads:
Cabin sole support beams:
Water tank support beams:
Putting down the plywood for the main cabin sole:
Plywood all down in the main cabin:
June 29, 2008 - putting in support beams & plywood to finish up the forward cabin sole:
Finished with all the plywood for the cabin sole:
Putting in support beams for the pilothouse sole:
Access hatches from the pilothouse to the engine room:
Pilothouse sole is finished:
July 6, 2008 - glassing the side and forward decks with 3 layers of Vectra cloth:
Glassing the Aft deck:
Wayne, putting the holding tank & water tanks in the bilge:
Putting up the cabinhouse sides (1st layer of plywood):
July 13, 2008 - laminating up the cabin top beams:
Cutting out for the windows in the cabin house sides:
July 20, 2008 - putting in the cabintop beams and trimming the bulkhead tops:
Putting in SS rod to hold down the cabinhouse to the deck:
The boat so far (July 19. 2008):
July 21, 2008 - Cabintop beams all in:
Putting insulation in the cabinhouse sides:
Putting plywood layer on cabinhouse sides:
Wayne putting planking on the cabin top:
Inside view of cabintop planking:
The boat so far (July 26, 2008):
July 28, 2008 - putting insulation in cabin house top:
Two layers of plywood to finish off the cabinhouse top:
Wayne and the Renter Marine guys (Paul & Al) getting ready to lift the fuel tanks into the boat:
Lifting one of the fuel tanks up to the boat:
Wayne & Eric Rentner guiding a fuel tank into the engine room:
A fuel tank rsting in place:
Glassing the cabinhouse sides and top:
Bill putting in the rough first plywood layer for the pilothouse sides:
The boat so far (August 2, 2008):
August 4, 2008 - cut out the windows & doors of the pilothouse:
Putting in the framing:
Putting in the beams for the pilothouse top:
Putting in the beams for the hatch:
Putting in the stainless steel hold-down rods:
Putting in insulation:
The boat so far (August 9, 2008):
August 11, 2008 - insulating the rear pilothouse wall:
Pliothouse outer plywood layer all on:
Fuel tanks before hold down framing:
Fuel tank hold down framing:
Wayne, winding the cotton string before use:
Wayne, rolling the cotton into the seam:
Wayne, pounding the cotton into the seam ("corking"):
Painting the cotton once it is in the seam:
The boat so far (August 16, 2008):
Sept. 2, 2008 - "Corking" the bottom seams:
Sealing the bottom seams with paint:
Putting primer on below the waterline:
The boat so far (Sept. 6, 2008):
Sept. 8, 2008 - cut open the aft cabin companionway:
Building the windshield for the pilothouse:
Putting in stainless steel hold down rods through the windshield:
Windshield finished:
Wayne planing and fairing the top:
Planking the top of the pilothouse:
Bill finishing the planking:
The boat so far (Sept. 13, 2008):
Sept. 15, 2008 - putting insulation and plywood on the pilothouse top:
The boat so far (Sept. 20, 2008):
Sept. 22, 2008 - glassing the pilothouse sides with Vectra cloth:
Glassing the pilothouse top:
Making the rubrails:
The rubrails on the boat:
The boat so far (Sept. 27, 2008):
September 29, 2008: - getting ready to put on the toerails:
1st Layer of toerail put on, with scuppers cut out:
Toerail complete, Port side - 4 layers:
Toerails, Bow view:
Toerail, Starboard side - 3 layers so far:
The boat so far (October 4, 2008):
Keep checking for our NEW photos next week and watch our progress!!
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