Guide To Boat Building Process

It's fairly obvious that when you are doing your own yacht construction, you will need the standard tools that you would expect to find in the average toolbox, like hammers, screwdrivers and maybe drills if you have them. Therefore, in this article I don't want to dwell on these and instead want to bring your attention some of the more specialist tools available and also raise some points you may not have otherwise thought of when thinking about boat building tools.

Yacht construction, you will more than likely be working with wood and therefore it should come as no surprise that most of the tools you will be using are common wood working tools. This includes saws, chisels, planes, hammers and mallets. Another tool you will definitely not want to be without when boat building is a clamp, nor should I say clamps? These basically work as you third hand for holding pieces in place, allowing you to use both of yours for carrying out other tasks such as hammering in nails, mixing and applying glue, or anything else you may need to do with your hands free. Therefore the more of these you have the in your toolbox the better, as this will allow you to work on more things at the same time and speed up the whole process.

You will also want to make sure you have arsenal of marking and measuring tools so that when looking at your boats building plans, you have an accurate way of transferring these dimensions to your pieces of wood ready for cutting. Measuring tape, try squares and sliding bevels are just some of these tools you will want to look into further. If you are buying new tools for the build, you will want to make sure that you take good care of them too so that they last and also to make using them easier.