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... so I suppose petrol-heads should especially like them. But I reckon they're pretty good too. Here's a nautical one --


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Lots more of all...

Thanks for that, Dave. Nice to see the sprit rig used in that fashion. And the steering oar used as a leeboard, too.

I don't suppose you caught up with my friends Reinhart and Katrin in the San...

But note that CPES is itself an epoxy. Also that, as such, it on any exposed wood will need further protection against UV or it will deteriorate. (Varnish will protect exposed CPES.)

Mike

Gavin Maxwell (author of many books, including the famous 'Ring Of Bright Water') wrote of his efforts to start a basking-shark fishery in the Hebrides in "Harpoon At A Venture'. It was interesting...

Bob's rotary rasp works fine for us. There certainly can be a tendency for such a tool to wander, but this is reduced where you can anchor the end of the rasp in the hole in the deadeye before you...

Well Bernie, there's a SE/NW airstrip-- dirt -- and not much else that I can see. Maybe you can swim in Lake Dora? Or is it too salt, like the Dead Sea? :) Enjoy yourself. (I hope they're paying you...

Thanks Jeff -- good find.

A nice demonstration of "sailing on her ear" just after six minutes in -- her mast is 55º off the vertical....

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I'm not sure how similar Jim and Aileen Louisa are, but they're certainly both clinker, so this may have some relevance. (AL is not glued, but traditional riveted.)

This picture shows how Tom...

The Hiscocks faced a similar problem with Wanderer IV(?) and solved it by down-sizing again.

Mike

Thanks for posting this, John. My favourite was undoubtedly the International 12', but I suspect that was because my first lines drawings as a teenager were of the International 14', which was always...

Warneet North YC has a slip with a small travel-lift, and a hardstanding area laid out with a right-angled grid of rails leading to, oh, maybe a dozen berths. The lift can work its way up on the...

My stepson does all that, in the mountains east of Kyogle. He has a whole bank of deep-cycle batteries charged by solar panels for electricity (and he also runs a generator at appropriate times to...

Thanks guys. That confirms me in my order of preference for lug sails -- standing, gunter, balanced, and dipping a long last.

Mike

Well, he's doing far better than he would at Yaringa nowadays, Jeff (let alone Hastings, where it would be starkly impossible.) I've always thought Bass would be a good place to do that. (Or Port...

Ah. Thank you.

What a miserable existence these poor boat-people lead, don't they?

'Start Ya Bastard' is great stuff, but only when all else fails. It's about a quarter ether, and it does what Ian says and strips the oil from the cylinders. There's some earlier stuff about it on...

Is that a TS24 you're referring to? I've only ever seen one, but I was impressed with both the internal space and the fact that she could still be trailered.

Mike

Todd (and anyone else) -- what do you see as the advantages of a balanced lug over a standing lug (which is far and away my preference)?

Mike

Gary, it sounds like you're well aware of the issue. Side loads on fairleads aren't particularly important-- that's what fairleads are for, after all. But side loads on cleats are a different...

Gary, if you're able to, think about fitting some fairleads downstream of the cleats to try to get the warping loads more-or-less in line with them.

We're currently replacing yet another mooring...

And for those of us who like both wooden boats and classic cars, there are always boats like this :) --


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Padeyes, bobstay plates, chainplates -- they're all made here. Ask and it shall be given unto you (well, after you pay a bit of dough) --

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I take your point about the state of the deck Dave, and why you don't want four mounting holes through it. But we've made several new (wooden) mooring cleats to replace original ones that had split,...

Rudder-box pintle fittings up to 3" wide are also available, designed to sandwich the rudder and stock --


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Kareela's (kayak)...

I'm glad you've found out what she is, Gary. But did David point you towards any drawings?

A Spookem on a Skookum, eh?

Mike

Thanks Todd, that's exactly the drawing I was remembering. And it does indeed seem to work much like Knight's balance reef too -- certainly the end result is similar.

Thanks for finding it.

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Sorry Rick. And good luck Gary.

Mike

Thanks Mike. Good pictures (and, dare I say it, much as I expected.) With a bit more breathing space I might have got there again....

I must say I'm not too rapt in this mooring cleat though --
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Thanks Greg. Nice work. (I clearly wasn't following your thread as closely as I might have done. :) )

Mike

Sorry, I meant to also add that if this were indeed to be a lug rig instead of a sprit rig, then you'd have the option of fitting a sort of 'balance reef' (a diagonal line of reef points), which...

Gary, regrettably Alan had died before websites were common. However, if you talk to his nephew and erstwhile offsider David (who more-or-less took over where Alan left off) you might still be able...

Wow James, now you should tell us what you really think. :d

I have no specific knowledge of the waters to be sailed (as you might guess from my profile), nor of the particular vessel concerned.
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I might have too, belatedly, if the pictures were still there to be seen.... If the method is what I think it might be, then it's the one I use for cutting plugs.

I trust all went well, Greg?
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It looks to me like that slot in the top of the post held an alidade once.

If Ritchie's customer service is still as good as Howard says, then I wouldn't write them off for a reply just yet.
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Goodonyer Mike, thanks for the pictures. They point up the difference between Hobart and Goolwa well -- deep-sea vs shoal-draft (broadly). But I'm still not clear why the two festivals are so close...

Well, I have a boomed standing lug on my kayak, and it works just fine. And despite Thorne's sort-of joke, I had a boomless sprit main (with a jib) on Aileen Louisa, and it worked just fine too. (I...

"... when it comes, the desire to build a boat is one of those that cannot be resisted. It begins as a little cloud on a serene horizon. It ends by covering the whole sky, so that you can think of...

Lovely pictures, Pirate. Thanks for posting the link.



Well, I don't personally know Grayling, but I confess that to me, having that plumb stem, she'd look a lot better if she carried a...

I first fell in love with wooden boats as a young teen, like so many other people by reading Arthur Ransome's 'Swallows & Amazons'. I too built my first boat at fifteen, which was also a...

So do I -- that's why I suggested cleats back in post #16.

It'll be interesting to see the outcome anyway.

My understanding is that the Japanese took up consumption of whalemeat only after WW2, and at the suggestion of Douglas MacArthur -- who apparently told them that that was what they used to eat and...

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Ingenious design. Deserves a design award. Practical? Maybe.

My guess is that 8' is the maximum width you can drive on UK roads without a special licence (as it is for my campervan here), which...

I'm afraid I've never found a bandsaw I could rely on for a straight cut (although I confess I've only ever used tabletop bandsaws, which perhaps can't be set as accurately as larger models).
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Um.... Thanks guys (I think).

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While I'm not myself a fan of the Stevenson designs at all, I have to say that that looks like a particularly nicely-turned-out example, one on which the builder has invested considerable time and...

Yes Ian, he was hoping to take Irina ('Sweet Thing') there to live aboard his cutter (which he kept there permanently when he wasn't sailing her), and the plan was that they would go cruising. But...

The photos still coming back from Hobart show what a wonderful event the Tasmanian festival was.

As it turns out, the Goolwa festival is on next weekend. I have absolutely no idea why they'd put...

Thanks Rick, that's my laugh for this evening. :)

Mike

Jim, you won't forget an extra groove or two at the top of the straight-ahead spoke, will you?

Mike