Former glory

Ian Drinkwater explains how he fashioned a bow moulding with the aid of a cardboard former

STEP BY STEP My No2 boat is a Portabote, and I love its versatility. However, one limitation is its bow cover, which does not provide a lifting, stepping or painter attachment – so I set about producing an alternative. The challenge here was to achieve a reasonable pattern from the rather diffcult shape of the open bow. I quickly decided that a timber unit would be too diffcult, so GRP seemed the solution if I could make a suitable former. Making the cardboard former 1 I used an old cardboard box to wrap the bow, using duct tape to retain the shape with the objective of moulding over this later. 2 The next stage was to glue a stiffener inside with a strut so that I could laminate on my…

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Practical Boat Owner (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 2015

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