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I heartily recommend Reader’s Hardwood Supply in East Taunton, MA, which is 40 minutes from Providence.
http://readershardwoodsupply.com

It’s worth the trip to see the excellent selection of...

Tell us more about the boat design.
Length, beam, depth, sail area
Will the hull have internal framing?
Will it have structural sheathing, inside and out? I.e., is it strip planked or strip...

I expect that the Gulf Stream and weather mappings are equally important.

There are still some older designs racing, so such a comparison would be possible.
The impact of multihulls and lifting...

https://www.royalgazette.com/sailing/sport/article/20220619/argo-smashes-newport-bermuda-race-record/

Argo, a MOD70 trimaran, shatters earlier record.

I’ve taken that long to get from the Cape...

There’s an in-between answer, epoxy primer.
I like Jamestown’s TotalBoat epoxy primers and their TotalProtect primer which is a bit heavier and similar to Interlux Interprotect. They all stick as...

Looks like they’re under $100.
Here’s one....

I’m guessing that the engineers from Lucas (Prince of Darkness) have come out of retirement for this latest innovation in unreliable vehicle lighting.

Has anyone tried the wireless trailer lights...

In warmer locations, dark colors and epoxy don’t always do well.

As a fairing additive, I use glass bubbles. I get ‘em from Merton’s Fiberglass supply. http://www.mertons.com/Additives/bubbles.html. $48 for 5 gallon pail. I add a little Cab-O-Sil which makes...

Local people are better authorities on what works in your area.
Ask W17 designer and owners whether there’s adequate stability when amas are folded.
I’d have more trust in mooring attachment...

That’s an especially elegant bit of hardware. The boat is lovely, too.

I’d use ordinary bronze wood screws. With five screws going into a relatively skinny member, it’s important to size the...

The deceptive rascals might call it dark blue.

As Wiz suggests, there are reasons not to use such a dark color on a wood or epoxy boat.

Another brand name generalized.

Isn’t Micarta strictly paper-phenolic sheet, same as Formica?
… or has Tufnol become a brand for a broad range of composite sheet materials?

My birdwatcher friends gauge spring by the arrivals of migrating birds. Some friends are stalking the roseate tern this afternoon.

To wooden boat junkies hereabouts the emergence of the Concordia...

The Tufnol used in boat hardware back then was a composite of linen fabric and phenolic resin.

McMaster has a cotton-phenolic composite in sheets. ...

I did mine by bonding a piece of G10 tube into a slightly oversize hole.

I thought RCH stood for Royal Canadian Hair.

Linking the long grain of the two pieces is an excellent idea.
Depending on your skill and ambition, there are a few ways it could be made easier or fancier:
- Hide the spline by making its slot...

Rather than having this committee redesign Retreat’s construction one stick at a time, I’d suggest that you seek out a fully-baked design for a similar craft done by a competent designer in plywood...

+ 1 for Van Fancy. Adequate quality and very fair prices.

A few years back, I was making some very small skiffs for grandchildren and they made me some properly sized oars for them. Did a nice...

There’s an email and a phone number. Anyone tried them before hanging crepe?

The Covid pandemic provided the opportunity to recover from the one-big-bucket model and try to impose a little order. Here’s the heart of the stockroom.
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The principal storage units are...

If a tender visits a bigger boat that has significant flare or overhang in its topsides, the tender’s gunwales need to cushion contact from the side and FROM ABOVE. I have yet to see a rope or coir...

+ 1 for Interlux’s Interprotect and Jamestown’s TotalProtect.

They lay down flatter than epoxy resin. You won’t feel the need to sand much.

In no particular order:

Use slow hardener unless you face temps under 60F. You don’t want to be hurried.

I buy pint and quart deli tubs in case quantity. Maybe your deli would sell you a...

Douglas fir ply is reasonable in cost, structurally efficient, but checks badly if not glassed. I’d also glass the wet parts of the inside. 6 oz. Is OK.

What’s the boat’s other framing? What restrains the sides of the boat from flexing laterally? That stress is the most likely way to pop that joint.
I’d want either real interior frames or...

You haven’t said whether the Haven 12-1/2 is the boat of your dreams.

Before I got any more committed, I’d get a set of plans and do a detailed assessment of how closely the builder followed ‘em....

I’ve done a couple of box beam strongbacks of I-beam joists. Longest was 26’. Tops & bottoms were 3/8” ply, 16” wide. They stayed straight even if exposed to the weather for a winter or two. And,...

Available here
https://www.mcmaster.com/bars/system-of-measurement~inch/width~1-2/thickness~1-4/

Some of the PVA glues, like Titebond, creep under sustained load. Not good for bent laminations.

If using core-dependent (i.e. dyneema core and dacron cover) line, it’s even easier to strip the cover off where it won’t be handled or cleated. ...

I’ve just gotten some gunwale guard fhttp://forum.woodenboat.com/blob:http://forum.woodenboat.com/2046ca59-be05-4134-bd84-384dfedb7b2drom Hamilton Marine.
The good stuff. Their SKU 134053. It’s...

Nah! It’s a Whatnot 25.

My table saw was set up with a ‘magnetic’ switch. As I understand it, with this feature, if power goes out while the machine is running, the switch opens and when the power comes back on, the...

That’s a real improvement over the puzzle joint in #2.

Willie “The Lion” Smith- Echoes of spring


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UnsfIIKSt0E

In my locality, paint removal by soda blasting is mostly done by specialist contractors. Seems to me that the downside risk of doing this job badly is very real and I’d lean toward using someone who...

Any species will bend if you slice it thin enough.
If glueing white oak with epoxy, be aware of the issues there.

Thanks.

Translate Lloyds Form to American please.

Your memory is correct. The idea of including a plywood lamination for ‘thwartship strength is in the Gospel according to Meade, Chapter 19, page 208. I know of other designs for plywood, cold...

Every decade or so, I buy a big roll of 4 mil polyethylene film. Last I looked, it was about $.05/ft^2. Cheap. Sometimes I remember to use it and sometimes I use Todd’s method.

Find out what’s inside a solid core door. I used one that was mostly particle board with 1” hardwood edges and MDF faces as a bench top and it sagged after a decade or two. Made some planing...

A major reason that it’s hard to get a fair price for home built wood boats is that, for most kinds of boats, there are lots of boats on the market for low prices. Two major reasons. First, boat...

There’s a plus to this plan. In building the second boat, you can avoid the mistakes of the first boat.

Don’t be greedy with roach.
A hard vang can eliminate the topping lift.

My current boat has a main that’s nearly the size of yours. It’s got full battens and moderate roach. The full battens stabilize the sail which will prolong its life (it’s 18 years old and doing...

Naked dyneema is about impossible to belay, but quite useful when both ends are spliced, and splicing is dead easy.

My inner engineer likes the idea of standardized color coding of running rigging. It makes sense in wiring and would make sense in running rigging for the same reasons.
HOWEVER, it all goes out the...