Collapsing bucket for small boats

[rbgarr]

http://www.homeportmarine.com/marcom/swobbitnews.html

[Ian McColgin]

Any sailor should be embarrassed not to make their boat's duck water bucket. The only difference from standard that I recommend is to make a cable quoit for the upper rim since that's less bulkey, holds the rim out better, and facilitates the dip to fill it with water from over the side.

G'luck

[rbgarr]

The few duck buckets I've seen were mildewed and rotten. The average joe would be hard pressed to get the materials for a duck bucket as inexpensively as the one shown.

[Breakaway]

10 bucks at defender
http://www.defender.com/images/754249.jpg

[paladin]

You can buy treated cotton duck pretty cheap, but I dunno about Defender, that's getting pretty cheap.

[Ian McColgin]

It's not that you can't get it, maybe even cheaper. It's a matter of pride.

Everyone draws their own line. I don't build my own engine the way many boatbuilders did a century ago. I don't even make my own cruising boat as I'd rather sail that screw . . . into planks. It's a personal call.

[rbgarr]

... except that anyone who doesn't do it your way should be embarrassed, eh? :rolleyes:

[paladin]

Actually Ian...I made a bunch of them...a couple Christmasses ago and sent them to some forumites...now I'm into cedar buckets.