To get a good boat, you must first start with a good design. Fortunately, or unfortunately, the collection of designs available is immense.
In years gone by, choosing a boat design to build was limited to what you could get your hands on through local boat yards or designers.
My best advice is first, decide on the basic concept. Do you want a small day sailer, ocean going mono hull, live aboard catamaran or car topper. Is your family truly interested in going boating with you, or are you just assuming? Ask yourself a lot of questions first.
Remember, all you need is some basic woodworking tools, some experience and some patience. The building of your own boat is a challenge, but if you meet it, the reward is the deep satisfaction of a self-made life afloat.
The best way to design and build your boat is to first get your hands on a piece of software. There are many benefits of using software to design your boat but the one I am recommending is special as you can use subdivision surfaces to gain more flexibility and the advantages can only truly be appreciated once you start to use it.
Here are the advantages of the software:
Create any type of floatable object
Easy to use & extremely flexible
Super low learning curve (Very easy to use)
Visually appealing, no complex menus
Enhanced hydrostatic calculations (More accurate) Locking & Unlocking of control points
Add background images easily
Easy 3D scaling, moving, rotating
Advanced File import and export functions
Fairing Tools & Advanced Modeling options
More freedom in modeling knuckle lines
Surfaces can contain holes and gaps
Create complex shapes from just 1 surface
The possibility to insert just 1 single control point
Resistance calculations including the Delft series resistance
calculation and The KAPER resistance method.
All from the thriving Open Source Community, this software is forever changing
Ideal for any type of boat hull from luxury yachts to toy models
Multi PC License - This can be used on as many systems as you want.
100% FREE updates.
This is truly a wonderful piece of software which no boat builder should be without.
Visit the website here: 3D CAD Boat Design Software [http://www.3dboatdesign.co.uk]