Pulsifer Boat Builder

I choose to build wooden boats because wood is
naturally strong, yet light
and easily repaired.
It is renewable, it is peaceful–
absorbing not amplifying sound.
It is also a pleasure
to work with.

Dick Pulsifer
info@pulsiferhampton.com

Finish: Armada satin interior and decks; green Anti-fouling bottom paint; Epifanes #24 Oyster White hull; Epifanes Rapidclear stern.

Brightwork: Stern, rub rails, console top

Construction Details
Materials: Select native white pine, oak, and cedar, custom sawn and air dried at the shop

Backbone: 3 1/2 x 6" oak members

Stern: Quarter sawn white oak

Strip Planks: Clear pine boards planed and sawn into 1 1/16" x 1 1/4" strips; hull thickness is nominally 1"

Floor timbers: (9) 1 3/4" thick oak members on 18" centers

Deck beams: 1 3/4" oak

Floorboards: 1 1/16" wide pine boards fastened directly to floor timbers

Frames: Stream bent, quarter sawn white oak, nominally 1" x 2" on 12" centers

Fastenings
Hull stripping nails: Silicon bronze, #10, anchor fast 2 1/2" and 3" nails

Framing nails: Silicon Bronze 1 1/2" anchor fast nails set and clinched

Drifts and Bolts: 3/8" and 1/2" silicon bronze

Screws: Stainless steel and silicon bronze

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