Jim Lowe
05-20-2002, 11:56 PM
I’ve been reading your mail for some time now. You have been a fine source of information as well as encouragement. I enjoy reading about each of your projects and the struggle to resolve problems encountered along the way. There is a great deal of experience and talent in this forum.
I have noticed that you rarely agree on how to accomplish any one task and occasionally I have watched you fight like family, which naturally has made me want to be part of it.
You have been a part of my projects as well. I found that for the most part, the topics that I have struggled with have already been pummeled into submission and all I have needed to do is search the archives for the answers. So thank you for sharing your challenges.
Since I am the new kid in class, here are some of my highlights:
Married 21 years to a woman who not only wants me to build boats but wants to live aboard as well (that has to be rare).
Two sons, one with the USAF in Japan the other on his way to college on the west coast (empty nest).
21 years with Coast Guard aviation (close to retirement).
I have built three boats:
8ft sailing dinghy, cold molded using the mold method, designer is Tim Jenne’.
14ft flat bottom skiff, plank on sawn frames, My design
Haven 12½ cold molded, mold method, designer is Joel White.
My current project is a float house, built on a planked hull. Her keel was laid 2½ years ago. I am about half done. She is my own design.
There is also a 38ft plank on frame cutter that is just a twinkle in my eye but I sail the Pacific Rim on her in my dreams (is this healthy?).
I am what you might call a determined amateur. No proper training in boat building with the exception of what I have picked up from reading over the years (I’d recommend Bud McIntosh, How to Build a Wooden Boat) and from Hard Knock University.
I have noticed that you rarely agree on how to accomplish any one task and occasionally I have watched you fight like family, which naturally has made me want to be part of it.
You have been a part of my projects as well. I found that for the most part, the topics that I have struggled with have already been pummeled into submission and all I have needed to do is search the archives for the answers. So thank you for sharing your challenges.
Since I am the new kid in class, here are some of my highlights:
Married 21 years to a woman who not only wants me to build boats but wants to live aboard as well (that has to be rare).
Two sons, one with the USAF in Japan the other on his way to college on the west coast (empty nest).
21 years with Coast Guard aviation (close to retirement).
I have built three boats:
8ft sailing dinghy, cold molded using the mold method, designer is Tim Jenne’.
14ft flat bottom skiff, plank on sawn frames, My design
Haven 12½ cold molded, mold method, designer is Joel White.
My current project is a float house, built on a planked hull. Her keel was laid 2½ years ago. I am about half done. She is my own design.
There is also a 38ft plank on frame cutter that is just a twinkle in my eye but I sail the Pacific Rim on her in my dreams (is this healthy?).
I am what you might call a determined amateur. No proper training in boat building with the exception of what I have picked up from reading over the years (I’d recommend Bud McIntosh, How to Build a Wooden Boat) and from Hard Knock University.