SPILING: How to make a PATTERN for a BOAT PLANK

In this video, I describe a simple method of making a pattern for a lapstrake or clinker boat plank.
The boat I am building is the wonderful Fiddlehead double paddle canoe, designed by Harry Bryan.
The video is an excerpt from the online boatbuilding course "Building the Fiddlehead Canoe" I am currently teaching at Small Boat School.
The course is open for registration at www.smallboatschool.com
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00:00 Introduction
02:10 Recording plank widths
03:10 Recording the stem shapes
04:29 Attaching spiling battens
05:40 How to avoid edge set
06:45 No hot melt glue gun?
07:11 Marking the plank shape on the planking stock
08:32 The flexible batten and plank fairness
10:33 Drawing the plank shape
11:24 Cutting out the plank shape
11:59 Hand planing the plank edge

[@patrickcasey1150]

These videos are exactly what I have been looking for. Thank you so much for putting together such detailed explanations, and for the clarity and simplicity of those explanations. I actually feel like I understand what is happening! :) You have made a really great set of boat-building videos - they will be of enormous value to many people for many years to come! Please continue!

[@SmallBoatSchool]

Thanks a lot, Patrick! If you're interested in a lot more of this, I'm just about to open up for a small group of test pilot students for the full Building the Fiddlehead Canoe course. I will hold a webinar about it this Sunday. You can register for the webinar here: www.smallboatschool.com/pl/2147619531

[@ladygardener100]

Great, I'm starting model boat building, and the planks need to be trimmed by spiling, that was me stuck!

[@johnsmall9729]

Very nice explanation. Thank you.

[@SmallBoatSchool]

Glad it was helpful!

[@gefginn3699]

I Wish To Build My Own Trimaran

[@SmallBoatSchool]

Cool! 💪

[@alec6840]

🙈 P-R-O-M-O-S-M.