For temporary seal-up, get some lead flashing at your local hardware store and some roofing (wide diameter heads) nails, cut out patches, punch nail...
A few years after I started using the method I sketched in #10, WoodenBoat published a description of what Gannon & Benjamin called the "hide a butt"...
For a repair that works with the planking and can be done from outside, I used to cut away the wood taken up by the broken scarf. Then bevel each end...
There's a difference between absent-mindedly keeping or even retaining for future reference "secret" papers and deliberately stealing and lying about...
I used to tuck my schooners Goblin (Alden 43') and Granuaile (LFH Marco Polo) up some narrow tickles and therefore running aground often. If stuck on...
Mower and Day via the rudder and their inspired design work certainly spread the small cruiser dream and this Sea Bird was an economical example. And...