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03-27-2023, 05:27 AM
I wrote up the lanyard and leeboard for a recent Ash Breeze, the magazine of the Traditional Small Craft Association. It lends itself to...
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03-24-2023, 06:18 PM
Drywall buckets fit better than milk crates, but replace the metal bail with rope, and some of the small claw style anchor's fit neatly in them. If...
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03-24-2023, 01:15 PM
Those marks are the tell tale for builders models. Owner doesn't need to take apart only that it once was.
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03-23-2023, 12:01 PM
Builder's models like this lift model usually can be taken apart. And the lifts sometimes have marks for the stations. Can this one come apart?
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03-23-2023, 11:55 AM
I have a barrel of boat blankets, old cotton summer blankets and mattress pad for my little boats. Day or two before use at the beginning of the...
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03-23-2023, 11:50 AM
Mud can pull Crocs off your feet. That said Ive had mud pull the sole off Tevas.
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03-23-2023, 11:48 AM
Oddly enough for best power and to face forward, the notch usually is on the side opposite the dominant hand. So if you are right handed you face...
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03-18-2023, 07:57 AM
The working Lincolnville salmon wherry landed and took off from a beach; coming in there would be a load. So protection from bottom wear was...
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03-11-2023, 06:57 PM
Projected weight range the same as the Annapolis Wherry. What my friend with same does is slide the boat back on his roof rack where it it upside...
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03-11-2023, 06:48 PM
The OP has a power dory with side decks. a cuddy cabin, fore and aft decks. So it's really non skid on decks that he wants.
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03-11-2023, 04:47 PM
If they are slipping enough for you to work them down the oar you can use something like the waterproof version of titebond, white glue and wiggle...
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03-11-2023, 04:44 PM
Check with the Beals Island Historical Society folks.
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03-10-2023, 05:24 PM
Looks good.
The narrowness of the guideboat, I suspect, has to do with the need to carry it as well as weight. You need to be able to go upside...
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03-08-2023, 08:19 PM
Windage is indeed a critical element when it is blowing. Why my little 15' ducker is pretty easy to drive above 4 knots. I don't know that for say a...
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03-04-2023, 04:29 PM
The guideboats which are working boats seem to run higher than .55. Should be possible to get VIRGINIA into Rhino which would help set some...
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03-03-2023, 08:18 PM
Thanks, at 4 knots on the Kaper, very similar; as soon as you try to power above 4 knots, guideboats rule.
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03-02-2023, 05:36 PM
You can also take those discs, fold them and use them for hand sanding small stuff.
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03-02-2023, 03:52 PM
If you want to fatten up your sheet where you trim it, you can always use the dinghy racers trick and take a cover from a bigger piece of line and...
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