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Rod if they’re not glued on yet, a longer piece of inwale at each oarlock/kabe is good practice to distribute the rowing strains over a wider area. It looks too late to socket the frames into the...

MAS epoxy is designed not to blush. And it didn’t when i used it. Just had crystalization in the tubs...


Only seen blush when using Sicomin when it was raining outside and doors open (MAS got...

Stones Boatyard import the best close grained quarter sawn AYC planks to the UK. As well as Sitka Spruce. I bought a boat full straight grained vertical grain 25 ringd per inch or so, and its perfect...

One thing you can do with a daggerboard box is have a short dummy daggerboard that fills the case and slot just flush with the bottom to avoid any drag from the opening.

The displacement distributed over a narrower waterline gives the bottom of Elf/ Elfyn more V. As shown, if I remember, the keel/ keelson is accordingly narrow, and Iain shows a daggerboard placement...

It's from the point the end grain starts to become exposed from the start of the spar's taper that it was covered with more durable white paint. Especially at the mast tip pointing to the rain: to...

During Covid, Dudley Dix beavered away turning his Paperjet into a trimaran...

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I’ve got tickets for next week at Hyde Park. Saw them in Southampton few years ago and at the Isle of Wight festival before that. They’re very very good live. I’d love to see them in a pub just...

John has drawn a yawl rig for the Guider. No structural changes from the standardboat and easy with the cassette rudder arrangement.
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I thought I might take my dinghy to France for the odd festival. I bought it on condition that I would be given the RCD pass certificate and VAT paid receipt when purchased, which I did get. I know...

North West passage then North East Passage bringing you down the coast of Norway. Nobody has yet sail n oared it Tom. Bears though.

https://live.staticflickr.com/5065/5827799843_1dc2dd176f_k.jpgGiacomo crossing the suspended canal by Giacomo De Stefano, on Flickr

He got from London to Istanbul in his Sooty Tern down the Danube.

Yep. ONS Data. British exports to the EU in April 2022 was the highest since records began.

So far inactuality, by restricting European economic migration, and that a large number of people simply stopped actively working during covid and have left the labour market, the remaining workers...

Just looked at Toyotas UK website.

10 year warranty!

https://www.solwaydory.co.uk/images/uploaded/expeditionbermudan/tigh6.jpg

https://www.solwaydory.co.uk/images/uploaded/rigs/er8.jpg

£375 sail and spars. For an auxiliary sail, the 'expedition...

So how's the USA's nuclear program doing now you're not importing the Russian thug's enriched Uranium? ;)


Actually it's fine, because you kept Rosatom off your sanctions list...

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Designed by Dan Hatcher. Belvidiere Boatyard.

When I had a boat not dissimilar to a Folkboat, I used Gottifredi Maffioli Swiftchord for the sheets. It's supersoft on the hands. In the silver fleck colour it's pretty mute for a classic boat. It's...

Well Iain is usually right...

After asking Iain for forgiveness, personally, I'd give thought to putting extra lams on the frames when glued up then cut out the frame, so that the 'gaps' are...

A nice 22ft gaffer (trailerable shoal draft) in next month's Watercraft...alternative to a Farne Islander or Meaban.

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I can't believe people are still arguing about this. Nick is correct.


It's 50:50.

After the door is opened, the probability of his chosen door does not stay 1 in 3. It now changes to 1 in 2....

Paul you can build yourself a GT40 for getting the Sunday paper.

Spaceframe chassis + body £10k.
Aluminium monocoque version £20.
Carbon tub version £30k.

Uses an Audi transaxle (they're...

A very good book: Japanese Wooden Boatbuilding, details construction of several unique Japanese boats. Douglas served as an apprentice for as long as he could with as many masters that would teach...

No, this one appeared harmless.

I was stuck in a Swiss cable car with an American once. Emblazened accross his chest his T shirt read: America: God's chosen country.

I sat there in this foreign land, wondering was this young...

Given we drive on the left...I aim my light slightly left so that cars at a junction get the full force. I have the least amount of time to react to a pull out from that. I always drop to the hoods...

I've used a Cateye Volt 800 for a few years now. Beautifully made, wasn't too expensive, plenty bright and usefull around the house as a torch for illuminating the garden when there's a funny noise....

Bronze screws are durable but in the small sizes (No.6's) they are not very strong, even when new. After a few years inevitable deterioration, getting them out can leave stripped heads. For this...

The other poor thing about the Fein (beside having to pull the sandpaper off) is the dust extraction is very poor quality - an after thought inexcusable on what is often used as a detail sander, and...

I recently bought a pair of the £35 per pair (cheaper than the gunmetal @ £150/ pair) galvanised conventional oarlocks and mounting plates from Classic Marine, UK. Purveyors of niceties and a good...

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The John Marples Seaclipper 16 and 20 trimarans use Hobie 14 and 16 rigs to make 'em go. If you root out a cheap rig, you'd have a quick trimaran and be drier than a Hobie.

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Herreshoff Coquina.

https://www.offcenterharbor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/coquina-part2.jpg

Detailed plans are available from Doug Hylan for traditional construction and a large portfolio...

If you encourage people to sit aft in a dinghy you distort the waterlines and immerse the transom, leaving you going slower. While Navigator has a planing hull bottom and would take the weight, you...

Raid Finland 2005. 17ft American Whitehall wins at the rowing.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF3_N-uUQcw

Tom,

Have you considered bringing your Alaska with you?

This website gives a ball park $1275 for a 20ft container from New York to Rotterdam. Might be cheaper than a cover/ paid storage and...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE7QA1chUzw

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https://woodenships.co.uk/small-craft/norwegian-sjekte/


Based on Jan. The first was built in New York!

Her story...
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Paul Gartside design 191. 17ft x 6ft. Gaff rig.

https://store.gartsideboats.com/products/17-ft-5-18-metre-centreboard-yawl-design-191

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Ness Yawl fixer upper...on ebay £600 (Essex England). Prolly won't get any bids (pictures are pretty poor and needs bits making. Cheap stuff comes up now and again Tom.
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Video of the big one...


https://youtu.be/bNb8wa_FqKE

There's a choice of 4 sizes...

15k euros gets Tom a new 20ft European lover. That's bargainacious.

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Interesting...lapstrake but not built over molds (Western) or from a centreline and sticks (Norwegian). Right way up, sawn frames. Just a centreline string.
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Seems he fixed his lee helm. WTF. No. No. and No.

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More Tom stylee...
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Any Brexit affect has been dwarfed by Covid and even the 'cost of energy crisis'.

In reality, any fall in EU exports is likely mostly a reflection of a fall in the high value German car exports....

Developments...

How about clipping this mini Festool workbench systainer onto the


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oooh the new Vivaro e...that's a development....and I'm loving the yellow! £44k works out at a net £21k cost then no road tax, no cam belts, and very small 'fuel' bills. Sell my T5 for £6k, so about...

If I replaced my VW T5 with the new electric T5 version (£44k) I'd have just an 82 mile range from full and a future life of range anxiety. I guess they're for builders working in an inner city...