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What is the beam on the boat? I suspect it will not fit in any u-haul you can rent, and I think anything over 8' can result in needing special permits.

Could you please elaborate on that? I am not aware that such a thing exists. Who issues it?

Thanks. I have not been to Pirates Cove since the late 70's. Sure has changed.

Yes. I found it on a site related to Arthur Ransome and now can not relocate it. Supposed to be Pin Mill from the Book "We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea". Note the four Walker Children in the dinghy,...

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Lovely. Thanks

Back in the early 80's I worked for an environmental consulting firm doing monitoring work at the V.C. Sumner nuclear plant under construction near Columbia SC. One of the "mitigation" project was...

You know, if you are only planning on building one or two boats I just fail to see how the time and effort to do the whole bead and cove thing is worth it. On most canoes you only have to bevel a...

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Our latest Miniature...

In undergraduate school we had a psychology professor who only gave true and false tests. On any test you wanted you could take the opportunity to answer ALL of the questions wrong. If you got all...

I have to admit that I use the Minwax Helmsman pretty much exclusively on my strip canoes. It is cheap, very durable and always available at the big box stores.

About the smallest I am comfortable with is my 10' pack canoe

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I seriously am a fan of Colt Single Action Army revolvers. I never really liked them in .22lr, just because they tend to be heavy. However, in other calibers they can be a lot of...

I find it interesting in a thread about why one might need an AR15 that no one ever mentions that High Power Rifle competitions (the most popular rifle only competitions in the US) require the use of...

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This. Several flintlock builders I know tend to use something like Fieblings Leather Dye to stain stocks. As an alcohol based dye it can give a good uniform color, penetrates well and comes in a...

Earlier in the day, Jan 4, 2013 this occurred:

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/police-hiding-woman-shot-during-fairburn-burglary/nTmk3/

FAIRBURN, Ga. —
A relative of the woman who was...

Violent home invasions in the Atlanta area are in the news almost daily. In almost all cases they involve multiple assailants, not individuals.

It is so easy to second-guess situations like this....

Thanks Dylan, your obvious enjoyment of the duck punt is infectious. Please keep the films coming.

One thing most people do not consider is that if you start at 62, do not really need the income and just bank it you can pay it all back interest free at 66 and begin to draw the full amount. It can...

The tape with a hole in it actually works pretty well. You are right about the diabetes also. Getting older is just not that much fun.

The solution that I and a lot of my friends have found to work starts with finding a good optometrist who is also a shooter. Our group of about 20 guys (I am the youngest at 61) all have eye...

Sure, check your e-mail

Been worried when we did not get any updates on her condition. Don't have any words to add, you and she are in my thoughts and prayers.

Thanks for the link to the Hands Shannon one-deisgn, very good video. I will enjoy several of the others in the series I bet

I found the pirogue video a while back. I grew up in Mobile, AL and...

Georgia actually adopted a "right to farm" statute. Basically prohibiting any farm, food processing plant rendering plant etc. from being declared a nuisance if it had been in place for a year and...

All of the above, plus I practice this: If I get to the point with something and say to myself "that is good enough". I stop for the day right then. "Good enough" seldom is, and for me that is...

For me it was a 56 chevy

http://www.classicchevy5speed.com/images/Customer_Cars/RonPlatishas56Chevy.jpg


Great car, ran forever and was really built like a tank

I have built several, but one of my friends is so good at it I just gave it up. He built the rifle below for me. It is a left-handed Isaac Haines that started from a kit by Jim Chambers, It is 54...

That kid is great. Still: the best banjo scene in any movie




http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=1tqxzWdKKu8



This year is the 40th anniversary of the movie's...

I am just curious. We see a lot of "I do not want to use epoxy" threads. Northboundtrain, can you tell us just what your objection is to using epoxy?

If you are on Atlanta, the last decent cedar I found priced out at $7.00/bf if I bought all 1000 bf they had. Otherwise it was $11.00 bf. If you have found a better source please share.

Saw one this weekend. Was used to load a 14 foot canoe. Seemed like overkill to me, but it worked just as advertised. For a grumman sport boat it would probably make more sense than for a 50 pound...

Don't forget that part of his requirement is that the boat be readily marketable after the build. To me that leaves out the simple canoe type designs and makes an argument for something like the...

Kayak fishing has really taken off around here. We have all sorts of boats used, but the two that consistently get mentioned are the nucanoe as mentioned above and the Jackson coosa ...

Moon River is a great choice. However, NOTHING will make a bigger hit with your daughter than if you take a few lessons and actually learn to waltz. Took me forever to realize that even if you have...

Located in Mobile you ought to be able to get some pretty good cypress for a decent price. Cypress makes a pretty good strip built boat and while not as easy to work as WRC is not that bad. I know...

Paul Fisher has a number of fantail launches also:

http://www.selway-fisher.com/Steam.htm

Nicely done. I just got through cutting and erecting the forms for this same boat. Good to see some pictures to verify it is just what I wanted.

Could it be Tom Swift?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Swift

Coliform will only be there if you have influence of surface water meaning as SamSam said you may have a cracked (or no) casing. How deep is the well? I would suspect you will need a new one.
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For a first time builder and possibly a first time epoxy builder I would err on the side of getting too much instead of not enough. You do not need to worry of trying to eek out every little bit of...

It really looks like a Phil Bolger gypsy (the Pyson cartopper's big brother) to me.

If you have not watched this film you should:

http://www.folkstreams.net/film,41

the building of a Seabright Skiff by Charles Hankins.

I agree completely with you David. Thing is we tend to view everyone on this forum as a dedicated boater who will continue growing. One problem with this internet forum is you don't really have the...

I have to admit the first boat I built was the Stevenson Pocket Cruiser. In those pre-internet days there was no cahnce of getting the kind of advice and ehlp this forum can provide. I looked like...

"If it is too tight don't force it, just get a bigger hammer". After watching that video I think I need to change hobbies and start over.

What county are you in Bill? I know that Cobb has a good set of scales at the transfer station and have been fine with me bringing a couple of boats over for just this purpose.

Standard kind of reply. I work in a state agency and I get letters referred from the Governor all the time. However, for us when we get such a letter we have only a short time to get a reply back...

Just had it done last month. Did not go the laser route as my prostate had enlarged to the point that we wanted to make sure we got enough out, so we used the older mechanical method.

This is...