BananaShark 34' Build thread

Cookee · 02 December 2009, 11:20

Whilst this is a hard boat, so few boats are built from scratch now I thought this may be of interest to some people on here despite the fact that it is a hard boat - we do have drawings for a RIB version though, and will build one if the demand is there!

The first set show the tools required to make a level floor - using a level and a laser with a simple tool Kitten laid out the plywood pads where the plug would touch the floor.

Then the pile of laser cut MDF arrived from the nice people at www.cut-tec.co.uk and the jigsaw puzzle was assembled!

Cookee · 02 December 2009, 11:22

The jigsaw puzzle assembly continues!

That's all for now - more later!

Mollers · 02 December 2009, 11:25

Ikea boat, nice idea.

You could've given that workshop a tidy Cookee.

Ian M · 02 December 2009, 11:36

Very interesting

Thanks for taking the time. Looking forward to the continuing story.

Bigmuz7 · 02 December 2009, 11:56

Cool

Can you tell us what its being built for (apart from the obvious

) and whats going to power it ?

Cookee · 02 December 2009, 12:06

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bigmuz7

Cool

Can you tell us what its being built for (apart from the obvious

) and whats going to power it ?

It will look a lot like the picture below, and it will be powered by a pair of Yanmar BY260's with Arneson Number 6 drives and ZF63 gearboxes, the speed we are aiming for is 75mph, but anything over 70mph will be great.

That engine configuration will fit into Class "E" in the Marathon / Endurance series and if we get it done in time we hope to take part in the World Championships in Cowes next August, but that is seriously close, so we'll have to wait and see how it goes!