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    03-21-2023, 09:56 AM
    I think there is a sheer legs diagram in one of the Admiralty seamanship manuals I was issued when I joined the navy a zillion years ago. it was...
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    03-19-2023, 06:40 PM
    Hi Jeff, I thought of that, but there really isn't much load on the oars. The mast only weighs about 40 lbs. 30, or even 20 years ago, I would...
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    03-19-2023, 11:01 AM
    Good point. I've already started to do something similar. There are so many lines on the main mast that when I decided to change out the halyards...
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    03-19-2023, 09:50 AM
    I suppose I should make a checklist, kind of like a pilot's pre-flight list. However, I am trying to avoid outsourcing my entire memory to...
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    03-19-2023, 09:46 AM
    Thanks guys. The idea for using the oars was actually a suggestion from Tad Roberts when I was whining to him about my mast-raising difficulties at...
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    03-18-2023, 06:45 PM
    Fixes, Mods & Upgrades Today was the first decent, sunny, warmish, moderate-wind day that we’ve had this spring, so I figured it was a good...
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    03-18-2023, 10:44 AM
    A surprise ending, to this part of the story, at least, but fitting, perhaps. I am not a religious person at all, but what immediately came to...
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    03-17-2023, 06:09 PM
    Fixes, Mods & Upgrades These are a couple of gadget shelves I just finished building and installing. One each port and starboard, and some slats...
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    03-15-2023, 10:58 AM
    Eric, I'm really surprised by that. I have used the wrap-it-in-towels, soak-it-with-boiling-water and cover-it-with-heavy-poly-to-keep-the-heat-in...
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    03-13-2023, 12:21 PM
    Jeff, I used peel ply for the taped joints but not the hull sheathing. It was an attempt to further smooth the edges of the tapes to reduce the...
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    03-13-2023, 12:10 PM
    Interesting and helpful visualization, even for those of us who have visited HMS Victory, although still somewhat simplified in places. The...
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    03-12-2023, 12:07 PM
    AJZimm replied to a thread Portage Pram in Building / Repair
    Steve and Bruce, I see I was too hasty in reading Bruce's post about asking for advice. If I'm reading things correctly now, then "The bottom...
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    03-12-2023, 10:44 AM
    AJZimm replied to a thread Portage Pram in Building / Repair
    Bruce, I don't own one so take my advice for what it's worth. I suspect the boat doesn't need any glass to give it more strength, but that bottom...
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    03-11-2023, 12:21 PM
    Thanks for the thoughtfully curated tour of the festival. Must have been hard to figure out which pictures to leave out!
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    03-09-2023, 11:36 AM
    Re: biaxial cloth along chines. I followed Russell Brown’s practice of cutting the strips out of regular cloth, a little wider that you would...
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    03-02-2023, 12:18 PM
    We'll see how well it stays stuck to the leather over time. It's certainly very stuck at the moment. Plan B if it comes unstuck is to take the straps...
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    03-01-2023, 06:03 PM
    Fixes, Mods & Upgrades After sufficient crawling about at the forward end of the cabin with oars, clamps and tape in hand for temporary fitting, I...
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    03-01-2023, 01:54 PM
    With the relatively flat sheer forward, combined with the very fine lines and lack of flare in the bow sections, I would be worried that, when...
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    02-27-2023, 11:48 AM
    I've done the same thing as Tim, although admittedly in not such wide planks, for the garboard planks both fore and aft on both the sail and oar...
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    02-26-2023, 11:06 AM
    What Ben said. My solar panels came with dire warnings about not cutting the attached cables with their factory connectors. Not sure what would...
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    02-26-2023, 10:51 AM
    Ben, Ground tackle consists of a 6 kg /13 lb Rocna anchor, about 8 m / 25 ft of ¼” chain and about 150 ft of ½” 3-strand rope. It lives in a locker...
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    02-24-2023, 05:31 PM
    At the request of Andrew Donald, here is a couple of pictures that show what I did to make an unobtrusive fitting to lead the cable from the flexible...
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    02-24-2023, 05:30 PM
    OK, I got out sooner than I thought. Here is a couple of pictures that show what I did to make an unobtrusive fitting to lead the cable from the...
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    02-24-2023, 12:43 PM
    Will do. Might be a day or two before I get out there to take the picture. I'll post it on my CoPogy build thread so as not to hijack this one.
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    02-24-2023, 12:21 PM
    What others said about anchoring out near Pt Hudson. Many years ago I was there with a chartered boat. Weather was OK when we got there the...
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    02-23-2023, 12:59 PM
    Jeff, Good to see that you have brought your build out into the light of public scrutiny. Great progress! I like the modifications you are...
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    02-23-2023, 12:39 PM
    Looking good Steve. You might want to consider the solution I used on Camas Moon. Post #607 in my CoPogy 18 build thread shows it, although not...
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