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If they are aluminium bronze through lead they should move ok & will probably still be in good condition. A friend checked his bolts on a 45 ft Robert clark yacht & they were set in white lead paste...

Lovely work! Having owned a beach boat its good to see a new one taking shape. Joggled frames in the bottom, steamed timbers above. Mine Billows, was built in 1938 By Harry Phillips of Rye as a...

The day Farage started licking Trumps arse was the day he lost any credibility he had left.

Yes, you have approx 4 minutes left if it goes.

I always remember listening when Radio Caroline bust its anchor chain & went adrift, just before she piled up on the sand they played "The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald". Talk about timing.
Rip Sir.

Dont think you can do a lot with that. To make you feel better some years back i was coming back from getting some sanding discs etc, I was working on a Ness yawl & the brand new tan sails were in...

My last wooden sailing boat i sold to a gentleman who appreciated her & looked after her, in turn he sold her to a guy who owns a large marina, I am told she looks great!
On the other hand our...

Lovely boats, but they are GRP! There is one laying derelict not so far from me, I keep making the owner an offer but he wont sell...
Yet.

Our club Benfleet yacht club has an annual race round the Thames estuary called the Nore race, big event open to dinghies & cruisers.
A few years ago we used to get a guy enter an Int Canoe from...

My dad used to use the drunken ladder system for planking patterns though he didnt call it that. He learnt it at Jack Holts boatbuilders Putney in the early 50's so the idea has been around a long...

Thirty years ago or more you could get away wiith exterior. Not any more. As has been said by others the quality has become truly dreadful with glues that for all the world are little better than...

Jake Davidson had a legally held shotgun. Prior to his killing spree he had his certificate & gun removed by the police due to violence & said anger management issues.
For some reason only known to...

Happy Christmas & New year to all, longest day is gone & nights drawing out, soon be time to get working & using those wooden boats!

As for the video, Were the pigs being driven towards the guys with the guns? no context just a short clip of a bunch of boar running towards them, my guess is the boar were running away from some...

I have tried Deks Olye several times, Its easy to apply & probably works best on softwoods or timbers it can soak into, A durable coating it isnt, you still have to apply maintenance coats every few...

Having worked in the UK education system i have some experience of how the public sector as its called works, I also know several nurses & health care workers, Schools were encouraged to be...

I would use Titebond 3, It isnt saving a nickel, Its because it lasts longer than epoxy, Oars get bashed about & epoxy has piss poor UV resistance.

My experience with lift the dot fasteners isnt good, on our 27ft yacht we had them along the front & side edges of the spray hood, this meant a row of 1/2" high spikes near the edges of the...

I know people have used plastic for frames but for pitys sake isnt there enough plastic in the oceans already, what happens when the boat reaches the end of its life? dumped or landfill?
I know it...

A boat to car top that can carry two adults & a couple of kids is a tall order, Of all the boats suggested i think the Cosine wherry is one of the best, At 14ft it is a bit small but they can be...

I painted my walls white, cant see 90% of them due to racking & shelves full of tools. It is worth pointing out that if you are doing much welding white walls are a bad idea as everyone gets some...

It always amazes me how many builders leave corners sharp. If you want a small boat to be comfy give everything you are going to lean on, sit on or bump into a good radius. Then it doesnt hurt so...

I used to use a stainless steel beer keg as a steamer, just unscrewed the valve assembly & bodged a bit of 1 1/4 pipe to fit the hole. A lump of 4x2 jammed across the top with a cut out for an old...

Some years ago the guy with the boat next to mine masked it all off & painted it, It was really hot weather & i suggested he take the tape off that day.
He didnt & came back 3 weeks later. It took...

The same thing happened to an old member of our club, at the london boat show with a bunch of friends, much guiness & beer consumed plus a big dinner, he collapsed on the railway station on the way...

There is a long running thread on pedal boats over on the Boat design forums, hundreds of pages long. Every possible permutation has been tried.
If you limit it to 5m it will be fat & slow,...

Very different indeed, I & a bunch of mates were taught how to use one many years ago by a lad from the scilly isles, they are capable of hurling hens egg sized rocks several hundred yards & are...

Bad idea to do that, Sending it back that many times it was likely to have had "Chefs special sauce" on it too!

You could always watch Ship happens, not sponsored by Git rot yet but its an idea for them.

As said by several others, try painting or varnishing anywhere near the stuff. I had some wonderful flame figured honduras mahogany (countertops out of an old bank) & made some sidebenches for a big...

We went to Venice ten years ago for a family reunion sort of thing. We stayed on the island of St Erasmo & caught the vaporetto into the city itself, one of the best holidays we have ever had.
No 13...

Back when i started working in the boat game (1979-80) at Thames marine we had great 45 gallon barrels of microballoons, the stuff was cheap! Then west discovered that if you packed it in tiny...

We might as well call it Grindrpox or in the interests of equality Tinderpox, both are ubiquitous avenues for promiscuous behaviour.
Another aspect is that antivaxxers are already blaming the pox on...

That explains how the ubiquitous weed got its name, you smell it in villages towns & cities, it wafts in clouds out of cars driving down the road, droves of young & not so young people, mostly men,...

If you want an aquatic drone a Pwc based one would be ideal, fast, tiny radar signature & could carry a fair payload...

I used to have a Hitachi transistor radio, bought by my dad in the mid 70,s, it had LW, MW, SW & Marine bands plus a DF loop that was surprisingly accurate.
Seen a few of them still around on ebay.

Quote[ I once read a theory that the decline of the Roman Empire was in part due to slow lead poisoning of the elites from their dinnerware. What insidious poison is blunting our collective future?...

I wonder how Peskov Wormtongue sleeps at night.

Dont worry im sure he will polish it out.

I had known my future wife for many years as we belonged to the same yacht club. She is a few years older & was shacked up with a guy. One day he turned up out of the blue at the boat i was working...

A few years back i acquired two large boards of dark red meranti 14" x 3" x 20ft. They had been in the roof of a barn for 30 years. It is extremely heavy & hard with an almost purple sheen to it....

It is strange, i know at least 4 people who are vaxholes, (Thank you for that word!) All supposedly intelligent people. But when it comes to covid all reason goes out of the window.
The way i see it...

I remember my dad finishing his hatches on his boat with D1 & many coats of D2, done at home in the spare room. They looked magnificent as if they had been poured over with molten glass & were fitted...

Greek fire was suposedly a naptha & oil mixture, an early version of napalm. As for tactics if you took out an opposing ships oars your ship would only need to be at an angle oblique enough to sweep...

Those freefall lifeboats roll like a turd in a pisspot, rather you than me!

I have a stretched Cosine wherry, she is 17ft & by far the best rowing boat i have ever had, stable & fast & with a lugsail for off the wind is blisteringly fast.
I previously built a Culler...

About 35 years ago i was doing a lot of work for a friend repairing insurance write offs, often this entailed a survey at the end of the job, the guy my mate got to do this was a well known member of...

Here in the UK i hear its pretty bad, I was a technician in a school & retired just before the pandemic (lucky or what) I still keep in touch with one of the teachers i worked with, he was telling me...

About 20 years ago I had a Startrite bandsaw on wheels, One morning i had to take my young son to playschool, it was chucking it down with rain so i decided to drive.
I had a Morris 1000 pickup...

It is interesting that many people of middle age & above will have grown up in a world where routine vaccinations were commonplace, Smallpox finally phased out in the uk as late as 1971, TB, Polio,...