<span>The Build By</span>

<span>Rod Hughes</span>

<span>Layton, Utah</span>

Jubilee House Boat Spec's

My plans come from http://www.glen-l.com/

This is the Jubilee but not to prints

Characteristics

Length overall 29'-0"

Length waterline 26'-3"

Beam 10'-2"

...Hull draft (with skeg) 14"

Hull weight 2100 lbs.

Displacement 7310 lbs.

Height overall 10'-0"

Headroom 6'-3" to 6'-7"

Freeboard 3'-6"

Fuel capacity 100 gals.

Fresh water capacity 50 gals.

Sleeping accommodations 6

* Hull type: Garvey hull with considerable dead-rise forward, developed for sheet plywood planking.

* Power: Single or twin long shaft outboard motors, or stern mounted inboard outdrive units. Total engine weight not to exceed 850 lbs.

* Can the hull be extended or shortened? No. We do not recommend increasing the beam.

This is a cabin mod I am thinking about doing to my jubilee

<span>It starts</span>

I am in the drawing state of my build Of the Delta q House boat Glen-L design I have modification to upper deck areas and I am increasing the size of the boat by 10%.

http://www.glen-l.com/designs/house/deltaq.html#avail

<span>This is the  Delta q</span>

Delta Q House boat was going to build it but didn't like how it was framed

the frames are lighter and has less room than the Jubilee

After thinking it over we decided to build the Jubilee https://www.boatdesigns.com/29-Jubilee/products/171/ we will have to make the beam smaller to conform to Utah state laws to make it trailerable

we ordered the study planes and deemed them not usable to build the boat they are missing measurements needed to do the building even so they do have allot of information but not directly related on building the boat so the full prints will be required to build it.

June 2010

On arriving in Ohio found out I had alot of hardwood available to start building my boat that I have been drying out the lumber for about 10 years so the trip even though it was made on a sad note has turned out with some good to it we will be bringing the wood and some of my equipment to Utah when we return.

We have the wood now sitting in Utah waiting to start building our trip ended up costing us more than we planed do to repairs we had to do so we are delayed until cash flow is better.

Started looking for place to build again have good prospect now hope it works out.

Ordered the blue print for the Jubilee from Glen-l at a cost a little over 200.00 with shipping still looking for the perfect place to build.

spent last 2 days setting up a wood shop at my mother in-laws picked up a couple of pretty good shop equipment and got them set up and tied out, ordered in my epoxy when it arrives I will start building the bulk heads/frames will post some new pic's then.

ok shop is up and running all the wood has been planed and ready to be laminated together to make correct size of material. Talked to the right people today and found out i will be able to build the boat with out changing the plans. Un-permitted you are only allowed to have a 8'6" wide trailer with permit you can go as large as 14' 6 " in the state of Utah

<span>Start of the Jubilee Build</span>

The plans seem to be pretty straight forward and pretty easy to read with full size patterns with plans. It will be a long term project normally this boat would not be a trailer able houseboat but this one will be. I found out in the state I live in a yearly permit allows it to be trans ported. I am using air dried seasoned lumber that I cut myself from my own trees. I am using Hickory for the frames with being the wood that is available it is hard heavy and strong but not used in boat building often. but should be ok I will be incapusalating it with epoxy and fiberglass cloth. At this point in my build I am working on the bulk heads these are built up using scarfing and lamaiting shorter pieces together the reason for doing this due to the size of lumber I have I must make smaller pieces thinker and longer but in doing so I do gain some weight but due gain resistance to warping and gain some strength.

<span>Got Some Work Done Over Summer</span>

 I started the build over the summer but put a hold on it for the winter. some pics to show the build

dragging 16 foot hickory boards that I had seasoning for 10 year out of the barn - jun 2010

cutting ruff ends off

cutting to smaller lengths to transport

the results of all the cutting I did

<span>July 12, 2010 at 6:37am ·</span>

The wood I brought from Ohio is stored for now still looking for a place to build the boat but now gathering and cleaning tools that have been gathering dust and rust from the damp humidity in Ohio

<span>July 14, 2010 at 1:26pm</span>

Just ordered the blue prints for the Jubilee from Glen-l at a cost of around 200.00 with shipping·

my cheap thickness planer but it does a better job than the industrial I used in collage go figure

<span>July 18, 2010 at 12:25am</span>

My prints came in for my house boat and went out and bought a new thickness planer to use on the build also have line on a table saw it heck replacing equipment

<span>July 20, 2010 at 8:06pm </span>

spent last two days setting up a wood shop a mother in-laws just ordered in materials from http://www.glen-l.com/ to start building the bulkheads

<span>July 27, 2010 at 6:18pm</span>

Started planing my wood of my frames my epoxy came in and have been gathering construction material

making smaller pieces into bigger pieces then planning them down to thickness

cutout one of the bottom pieces from what i had epoxied together and layed out another to be cut I have one more at this size to make then I go to making a smaller curved one that goes in the bow area then it the pieces for the transim

<span>August 17, 2010 at 3:39pm</span>

started building the boat but it is a long process, I also picked up our towing vehicle a 1968 ford f350 with a 390 v-8 with 5th wheel and tow kit and the trailer breaking system.

tow truck 1 ton f350 with 390 4 speed duel wheel

Progress is slow going due to lumber size, I  have to epoxy up small pieces to larger sizes my lumber I brought back from Ohio is only 5' long and it needs to be over 7 foot so I am doing this by using Scarf Joints and staggering the joints on the lame beams I am making

<span>August 28, 2010 at 9:43am</span>

well the towing trucks clutch cost more to fix than it did to buy it doing the prep work on it to get it to pass safety inspection

this will make one bottom piece for bulkhead unfortunitlly I didntt have any material large enough to build out of one piece

This is the bottom piece to one of the bulkhead/frames

epoxying up a beam to be used at bottom of bulkhead frame- Aug 2010

<span>October 2, 2010 at 11:18pm</span>

Finished cutting out 4 of the five bottom frame/bulkhead pieces are pretty much the same in demintions just some get plywood so know i am in the process of truing them up so there are no drips or ridges in them. I am using a belt sander to do this with and a straight edge making sure the demention are the same o all of them. I clamped them together so when i do one the others get done as well

Truing up the bottom pieces using route, plane and belt sander notice the straight edge to make sure everything is true

<span>October 7, 2010 at 4:15pm</span>

I epoxied up 2 more piece to make the last frame/bulkhead this one is smaller the the others and has more curve to it as it is the point the angles change to go up into the bow of the boat

Making a dent in my lumber pile

<span>February 14 at 1:43pm</span>

warm day today went to shop to see what I could do and I figured out I can't do much until I make smaller pieces into bigger ones or go get more materials so things put on hold for now

Ran into Problems

<span>Sunday Feb 20 2011</span>

 I  put a hold on the boat  for the winter since then our fiances have went bye bye. We are working on fixing this problem but we are dealing with the Government......Wish us luck

Have to sell the truck I bought In August 17, 2010   up for sell to pay some bills