Open Top Bronze Cleat from Davey and Co. Photo from Wooden Boat Chandlery
Materials used in the building of the SCAMP "ARGO":
- Plans: Purchased from Small Craft Advisor. Sail number is assigned when plans are purchased. ARGO is SCAMP sail #349
- Rudder and Centerboard: Wooden blanks purchased from Small Craft Advisor. The rudder and centerboard come in two halves each, with the wood already shaped to the correct foil section.
- SCAMP Marine Grade Plywood kit purchased from Small Craft Advisor
- SCAMP Tanbark Sail made by Neil Pryde, purchased from Small Craft Advisor
- Pine and Aspen from Menards
- Sitka Spruce for spars, from McCormick Lumber Madison Wisconsin (photo below of the lumber on my car)
- Fiberglass cloth, Epoxy, and various fiberglassing tools: from Duckworks Boat Builders Supply www.duckworksbbs.com. Epoxy is MARINEPOXY; I am very pleased with it so far. Easy to work with, no blush, and the odor is very minimal especially compared to "bondo" epoxies I had used in the past.
- Epifanes Gloss Spar Varnish from West Marine
- Mahogany for small wooden cleats on boom and tiller, from Menards
- Extra sheet of Joubert marine grade okoume plywood, from Kettle Moraine Hardwoods in Hartford Wisconsin.
- Vegetable tanned leather sheets, for spars and oars, from Ebay seller Leathersales
- Tufnol Blocks from RW Rope https://rwrope.com/classic-boat-supplies/
- Davey and Co bronze rudder pintles and gudgeons from www.greenboatstuff.com
- Davey and Co bronze closed chock from Fisheries Supply
- Deadlights (portholes) made using acrylic plexiglass with epoxied plywood retention rings. Construction details here.
- Open Top Bronze Cleats from Davey and Co, from the Wooden Boat Chandlery http://shop.woodenboatchandlery.org/
- Plugs, hardware, pad-eyes, bow-eye, tethers, etc... from West Marine
- Lead ingots from Rotometals
- Stainless steel and silicon bronze bolts, nuts, and screws, from www.boltdepot.com
- Palo Santo (Argentine Lignum Vitae) for cleats and fairleads, from Rockler
- Primary 11lb Stainless Steel Bruce Anchor on 6 feet of chain rode, a combination that has worked so well for me in the past; and as a secondary anchor, a Fortress FX-7; both from West Marine
- Armstrong Compression Deckplates from Fisheries Supply
- Bomar 1320-WT rectangular hatches for bulkhead, from Magna Marine www.mmimarine.com
- UHMW for skeg caps, from Interstate Plastics. www.interstateplastics.com
- Garelick Aluminum Motor Mount 71040 and Garelick Motor Mount Adapter Plate 71053, from West Marine
- Rubber gasket sheets, stainless steel screws and hardware, paint filters, pails, from ACE Hardware
- Brass HIN plates from www.usbrassshop.com
- Boat name , hull lettering, from www.islandboatlettering.com
- "Lakes N Rivers" 14ft boat trailer, with 12" wheels and painted frame, from Mill's Fleet Farm
- 2” thick white oak from an ancient oak that fell down in our yard in Wisconsin. Now the skegs and boarding ladder of the SCAMP Argo.
- Hempex rope, used on all lines, from RW Rope
- Navisafe navigational lights from Hodges Marine
Marine Plywood supplied by Small Craft Advisor and Kettle Moraine Hardwoods.
Hempex Rope, manufactured by Langman Ropes, Purchased by me from R&W Rope.
Four 4/4 x 6 x 20' Clear Sitka Spruce Boards