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Not all of them, but definitely enough to bring down the institution.

A very conservative christian I once knew said while they didn't want to die (because they wanted to see their kids grow up) but if it happened, well that would be ok because they would get to see...

I don't remember which brand of epoxy you are using. I use System 3 who say you have 72 hours to recoat with more epoxy before sanding is required. West Says you can recoat until the base is no...

I agree with nrs5000's comment that you don't need to lay down a layer of epoxy first. You are just adding extra steps to the process. If you feel you must, epoxy has a window of cure time (varies by...

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"Poppy" got launched last night. Good little boat, rows well and tracks a...

When I left Chicago to come out west in the late 1990's Illinois was still trying to wrap it's head around the idea that a pickup truck could be a personal vehicle as opposed to a commercial one.

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Lots of raised cockpit floor

I alternated between a standing and balanced lug on my KDI using the same downhaul. With a boom you just want the attachment point in line with the mast. I anchored a multi-part tackle to the mast...

This is Oroville, not Meade but a stunning picture nonetheless:...

The last boat I sold was through an online classified on Small Boats Monthly.

Dark Star has retired after battling headwinds while double reefed. He plans on taking a couple of weeks to find his way back to Port Townsend. Sad, DS was one of the few boats in the race I felt...

Is that because bringing it over as "cargo" is looked on differently than on her own bottom? I've watched a fair number of YouTube videos and read a lot of books about people sailing across the...

I don't think that you are going to find "typical". Too much variation to account for between wheel sizes and types of axles not to mention the actual bed construction. What are the other jon boaters...

If I am following the bouncing ball on this, they later restored $10 of that $15 million dollars. My larger point is that while the police budget was cut, it wasn't cut very much.

David is right,...

Good points. Got to be tough being a car designer these days, seems like wind tunnel tests drive everything towards the same "sneaker" shape.

Portland has hardly "defunded" the police.
Annual Police Bureau budget:

2016 $201 million
2018 $238 million
2022 $227 million

Slashed to bone!...

Couldn't agree more.

$.18/gallon comes out to $3.60 over a 20 gallon fill-up or close to the price a big cup of brewed coffee. Yep, that'll keep the wolves at bay and shoes on the the baby's feet....

"Water rights" get weird, complex and vary a lot from place to place. Here in the Pacific Northwet a friend was looking into why a piece of property he was interested in was so cheap (relatively...

From West:
Liquid—Open Time
Open time (also working time or wet lay-up time) is the portion of the cure time, after mixing,
that the resin/hardener mixture remains a liquid and is workable and...

If accepting a pardon is a tacit admission of guilt then pardoning someone for doing something for you makes you guilty too, right?

56F 89% humidity with a light rain falling. This time yesterday I was buttoning up the shop to go for a sail, no jacket required for the first time in a long while.

It looks to me like the tracker grays out if the boat hasn't moved for more than an hour. Gray with a bar indicates withdrawal from the race.

It is interesting/alarming how localized the visible damage was. The rest of the sheathing "looks" good but it peeled right up leaving a thin layer of lightly textured epoxy behind that was still...

This one is an Osprey but we have a Coho too.

I expected the big cats to try the outside route. They seem to be a tight group, judging by the party they were having the night before the start.

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Bottom done, waiting on the sheerstrake due to a lack of Forest green paint in...

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Chunks of old fiberglass
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I bought one of those big router bits getting ready to build my first birdsmouth mast, took one look at, thought about how splintery DF is and put it away on the shelf. The tablesaw works great.
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A 1968 Mack fire truck (apparatus?) rigged with an Italian-made wood-fired oven in the back.


That would be a fire engine, in use it would loaded with hose and a pump for delivering water through...

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In more recent years, a fourth component – the uninhibited chain reaction – has been added to explain fire. This chain reaction...

I do a 50/50 mix of beef and ground pork shoulder for meatloaf

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I'm really not sure how this happened. At least it is moderately accessible and I...

That looks like a nice one. I really like having mine on a tripod but some of that is from using it outside a lot, living on a hillside having adjustable legs is handy.

80/20 preferably grass-fed
on the rare side of medium rare
from the grill
yellow mustard
dill pickle
american (or if I'm feeling fancy aged cheddar) cheese
minimal bun, it's just there to hold...

Solder and shrink tube definitely the way to go. I chased my tail on one trailer trying to figure out the problem, turned out the ground wire had corroded well into the interior, hidden by the...

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50 watt panel, roughed in on a rainy afternoon...

I think there were too many pieces of the program moving to simply postpone the start. The night before the start a decision was made to add 24 hours to the 36 allotted for race to Victoria which is...

There is a gaggle of boats headed towards Victoria, winds are still out of the NW but in the 5-15 knot range (currently about 6).

Dark Star is moving in the right direction at 2kn with 5.11nm to...

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I thought that was one of your designs. Best I could do with my cellphone camera.

Come up for the 70/48 race. Tacoma to Port Townsend, strictly human powered and it is scheduled so it ends at 1900 the night before the R2AK starts at 0500.

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The start, yes the wind was very light. They used to play the...

Re-posted from above decks, one of the big trimarans was dismasted and a couple of boats capsized, all safe. Race Committee added 24 hours to time window for getting to Victoria, a handful of smaller...

Race Committee adding 24 hours to the PT/Victoria leg to accommodate the weather. They've had a couple of capsizes already and one of the big trimarans has been dismasted. Reports are everybody is...

I have two. A Dewalt that projects horizontal and vertical lines and a Bosch that does dots, both have their uses. Get the self-leveling model and a tripod to mount it on.

The Dewalt was really...

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I've always liked this picture, taken back in 2006 or so when I was building the magic...

I missed that it is a steel hull.

Done enough autobody work to know you can get damage a long way from the initial impact on a steel structure. This one will be interesting to watch, Bruce might...

Crushed between the dock and the offending boat? I'm guessing a write-off.

Will she stay pointed into the wind while you get the reefs in? Yes to permanently rigging everything. maybe toggle/eye robands for the foot? Speed and consistency. Might even be easier to drop the...

Roske indicated that he believed the Justice that he intended to kill would side with Second Amendment decisions that would loosen gun control laws," the FBI agent wrote. "Roske stated that he...

It isn't illegal to be "a little mentally off"...which good and bad. Pretty much in order to detain (not treat) somebody exhibiting signs of mental illness they have to be a danger to themselves or...