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My maiden voyage in my new friendship sloop was a disaster. The plan was to launch off the trailer and sail around, through the channel and the river to the slough where my new marina is located,...

When I got home and went through the package of documentation that came with the boat, including a hardback copy of Phil Bolger's Small Boats (Monhegan Friendship Sloop), and after I looked at the...

SWMBO condemns me for having standards that are too broad because I will happily drink two-buck chuck or restaurant coffee. You can miss out on a lot of perfectly acceptable or even very good while...

He's been a semi-regular on "The Good Wife."

Yes, the same. His friend Roger (I didn't catch the last name) managed the sale for Rick and took us on a tour of Curlew after she finished her morning charter. Very impressive. The boat was...

Bound is boatless man. As of Thursday, I am bound no more.
I borrowed my SILs Jeep Cherokee (which I may buy from him, if he makes up his mind) and with my brother drove down to Dana Point on...

I just finished reading Poyer's novel "Ghosting." I have read a half dozen non-fiction books on sailing, seamanship and boatbuilding in recent months in preparation to finally getting my own...

'Boiled' means that chemical dryers have been added; raw, or 'non-boiled' takes a long time to dry and harden.

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRiFknYRkdpUXBlNbT3f38MDdg_MKZF_X8dmJRsHzEfo6gvWZebagcruising happily with full headroom...

A topsail gaff cutter ketch.

You bet!

On Monday, I'm going to rent a truck and drive seven hours from West Sacramento to Dana Point, south of L.A., to buy this:http://images.craigslist.org/3If3J63N15N75K45Fcd460667928737f71cd4.jpg A...

Several years ago, when I was gainfully (more or less) employed, I spent fifteen hundred dollars on a new Takemine acoustic electric. I had it about a week and had it in a stand next to my favorite...

http://www.yachtworld.com/core/listing/boatMergedDetails.jsp?boat_id=2424452&ybw=&units=Feet&currency=USD&access=Public&listing_id=28984&url= this is what I'm thinking about.

You don't even have to speak the language to know it's pronounced 'Pyong Yang.'

Around Sacramento, what peeves me, is that most drivers seem to think it is mandatory to get bumper-to-bumper before or after changing lanes. Also, what is it with people who drive convertibles with...

I would take her if I could keep her on a trailer.

What's wrong with traditional solid lumber lapstrake with copper fastenings?

Yeah, a little...

Six years after applying for a job I got an email yesterday from the local community college district asking me (dear applicant) to apply for a graphic design job.

A lot of water has passed under...

I have my share of frustrations on the road and have been on both sides of rage, but the thing that I think is amazing is that given amount of traffic, we, as a whole, do an astoundingly good job of...

A pair of lobster tails, a ribeye and a baked potato, with fresh chives and sour cream, and a nice merlot to split. I fell down on the chocolate but we got a nice movie to watch.

I gave up coworkers.

If you can reach it, you might try using a cut-off wheel on a dremel to make a slot across the top and remove it with a screwdriver.
I've also occasionally had luck tapping the head of the screw...

I live in West Sacramento, just across the Sacramento river from the state capitol, in the center of California. Down the river, through the delta and into San Francisco Bay.
About a two hour drive...

John Alden design, Sam Crocker drawn, 21' sloop trailerable daysailer. Port Orford cedar on white oak frames, ribs, keel, etc. traditional copper rivets and bronze. Just waiting to arrange a shop...

Chisler: One who chisels. It was sort of a private joke. When I first signed on, I was in the middle of a sculpture project, carving a piece of western red cedar using Ace hardware bench chisels.

I have been a member here—login: Chisler— for about seven years and a lurker for about three before that, and I am finally in a good situation for building my boat. I just had the idea the other day...

You want the frames beefy enough that they won't warp or move when you wrap battens and planking around them.

Well, now you can say you met one on the internet.

I'm going to plank my Indian in Port Orford cedar (the plans call for 5/8ths white pine) and am wondering if I should order the planking stock double thick and try to resaw it with my sixty-year-old...

I'm slowly going through all the videos with intense interest. I'll be starting my own traditional lapstrake boat this spring and, as mentioned above, it is great to see the subject matter live after...

Sometime after Christmas, I decided the time was finally right to get some plans and build a boat. I have the tools and equipment, the library, the money for materials, and the time. I got out my...

I have gotten the plans for and intend starting to build John Alden's 21' Indian sloop, soon as I find adquate shop space. I am wondering about mounting a small, say 5 - 10HP outboard on the transom....

Yay, Niners. I watched, by myself, with the sound off, as I read Howard Chapelle's Boatbuilding.

When I created my log-in handle, I was just being cute. Chisler, one who chisels. I am a sculptor and use wood chisels to carve sculpture; not one who makes dubious deals.
I used a psuedonymn...

SWMBO and I like Love Actually

I is for Isuldur

F. Fangorn; Faramir

My grandfather's great uncle:

Alfred Thayer Mahan (September 27, 1840 – December 1, 1914) was a United States Navy flag officer, geostrategist, and historian, who has been called "the most...

Who is Bob Dylan?

Would that be called a bermuda-rigged schooner?

My first car was a '66 Plymouth Fury II with a 318. I think I paid three hundred for it. I remember rebuilding the carburetor while parked at the laundromat. Car ran well and went all the way to...

I traded in this
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for this

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When I need to use a featherboard (I made my own), I also clamp a vertical one to my fence, which will keep the stock from rising and thereby help prevent kickback as well as insuring a precision cut.

whole nuther

White

A couple of years ago, I bought an assay forge at a yard sale. I thought I would be able to use it to cast some small bronze items. I haven't gotten around to setting it up or using it; it just sits...

Spying on the Chinese communists from Osan air base in South Korea via the U2 and the SR71. A remote tour unacompanied for a year. Got my first divorce halfway through.

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Mine was yellow.

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