Building a 1959 Campbell Center Deck Cruiser

[CampbellCarl]

First, you round up a shit load of C-clamps......

Then, using the deck jig in an upside down position, you begin the bend the wood...

 

[CampbellCarl]

Then, you begin to bend the wood to the hull shape desired.....

 

[CampbellCarl]

You keep bending wood.........

 

[CampbellCarl]

Before 'ya know it, you got a hull.......

 

[CampbellCarl]

Time to roll it over and start the deck work.........

 

[CampbellCarl]

Finish the deck .......

 

[CampbellCarl]

Do a little dash rigging...oops, gotta finish the bottom.....

 

[CampbellCarl]

Some more discussion about the stern (Bobby Campbell kneeling).....

 

[CampbellCarl]

Time to load the family and hit the water..........

 

[RyanPartridge]

Too cool.:thumbsup

 

[CampbellCarl]

All of the above pix were taken from 1959 through 1980 (the last pic above, sitting on the motor cover is the widow that I bought the boat from).

This is 2006 when I bought the Campbell.......

 

[fmo24]

Do you know if they steamed the wood or was it just man handled into the jig?
Beautiful boat by the way.

 

[CampbellCarl]

Do you know if they steamed the wood or was it just man handled into the jig?
Beautiful boat by the way.

I don't know if it was steamed or just man handled....sorry.

And thanx...

CC

 

[RiverDave]

Do you know if they steamed the wood or was it just man handled into the jig?
Beautiful boat by the way.

I was wondering the same thing.. It has to retain the shape somehow and lose the spring of the wood?

RD

 

[Deangang]

For sure it was man handled . Cool pix Carl.:thumbsup

 

[msmeads]

very cool. love to see stuff like that.

 

[RiverDave]

For sure it was man handled . Cool pix Carl.:thumbsup

No question to get it into shape originally it's man handled, but a lot of times people will saturate wood with water and then it will help to retain the shape.. Then it is dried out and stays.

This is how they make curved banisters on stair cases etc.. It's not like they found a 30' wide tree and got one banister out of it.

RD

 

[flatnutz110]

Bitchen shiat Carl.:champagne:

 

[Deangang]

No question to get it into shape originally it's man handled, but a lot of times people will saturate wood with water and then it will help to retain the shape.. Then it is dried out and stays.

This is how they make curved banisters on stair cases etc.. It's not like they found a 30' wide tree and got one banister out of it.

RD

On radius stair rail it's usually strip laminated. If you take a close look at it you'll see it's not one piece.Steaming might make it more flexable, but wood has memory and it will return to it's original shape or close to it.

Darren

 

[FLATS ONLY]

Great Pics and History!!! Thanks Carl:thumbsup

 

[harlanorrin]

Your project looks great. How about some dates? How long did the hull build take? Who owns the jig?
I built wood decks on the 18' fiberglas Campbell in the mid '60s.
HARLAN ORRIN

 

[CampbellCarl]

Your project looks great. How about some dates? How long did the hull build take? Who owns the jig?
I built wood decks on the 18' fiberglas Campbell in the mid '60s.
HARLAN ORRIN

Not my project, pix from the original build. Dates would be 1958-1959. Billy and Bobby Campbell owned the jig.

Carl

 

[harlanorrin]

I worked for Drake Craft in late 1956. They built laminated plywood cruiser boats. The hulls had stringers, keel, and chines built in notches in the wood jig. The hull bottom and sides were layed over the jig and faired stringers, keel, and chines. After the glue had dried thle hull was removed from the jig. The sheer was installed. The decks were built on jigs, then installed on the hull. The boats were 22' to 36' semi v-bottoms.
HARLAN ORRIN

 

[BIG JOHNSON]

On radius stair rail it's usually strip laminated. If you take a close look at it you'll see it's not one piece.Steaming might make it more flexable, but wood has memory and it will return to it's original shape or close to it.

Darren

Bender-board.

Not that it matters.

That's a sweet boat, does it pound chop well?


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[Rickybobby]

that is way cool, I found another old old Campbell the other day, I will sneak by and take some pics for you.... very nice...

 

[DtB]

That boat is built very similar to the way glen L boats are built
I have plans and a boat builder guide from
glen L no mention of steam or wetting the ply in any of thier literature.
Plywood gets a good deal of it's strength from glue I don't know about it
holding up after being steamed.

 

[Rickybobby]

They say its a 57' ??? no hull number on the transom...

 

[CampbellCarl]

RB, I know that boat, it sat in my backyard for a year or more. The owner and I didn't see eye to eye so it went down the road. Did you see it at 42 Johnny's place? I think thats where it went from my place.

CC

 

[Rickybobby]

Carl
I kinda of figured you might know something about her. Not sure who 42 Johnny is but she is sitting out front of this place.

www.girouxboats.com

 

[CampbellCarl]

Carl
I kinda of figured you might know something about her. Not sure who 42 Johnny is but she is sitting out front of this place.

www.girouxboats.com

So it went back to Pete's, interesting for sure.

42Johnny is a screen name here on the boards. He's in the Palm Springs area and the boat went there when it left here. I know that Pete had the motor for the boat and perhaps the owner had it taken back to Pete's for completion.

 

[old rigger]

This is a long way from what the Campbell bros were doing but this is my son with his high school senior class project. He used plans from Glen L.

When it came to the tough bends he boiled water on our old Coleman stove, soaked towels, and then draped the hot towels on the wood. Worked good. He recently sold the boat to help finance his 6 week trip to Europe that he's leaving for at the end of the month.

 

[old rigger]

Forgot to thank Carl for posting those old pictures. Very cool.

 

[Kachina26]

Sweet thread, glad it got bumped back up. I thought maybe it was a new project until I saw the shot looking out toward the street. LOL

 

[Rickybobby]

thread jacking !!!! Anymore pics of the glenL ?? sweet senior project...

 

[Rickybobby]

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[CampbellCarl]

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CC