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The fire was at "Mystic Seaport Marine" which is entirely distinct and separate from "Mystic Seaport Museum".

I've seen two posts on Facebook about the recent passing of Roger C. Taylor. Roger's books include the iconic "Elements of Seamanship", the four volumes of "Good Boats", and a two volume biography of...

From the WoodenBoat Store Newsletter, January 4, 2022:

A nice looking boat.

The Newport Boats / Newport Catboats had large deadrise. For example see Fig 92 in American Small Sailing Craft.

If you are planning to scale in all directions by 10% then the panel shapes will stay the same. But note that scaling by 10% in all directions increases the volume by 33% so the scantlings (sizes of...

Hannaford on Sunday in Rockland had one copy which I purchased.

For each of the fourteen pods in the WB extended content in addition to the lines there are 4 graphs comparing freeboard, initial stability, righting moment and resistance (drag). No discussion or...

Drawings in Architectura Navalis Mercatoria by Chapman, published in 1768, have stations, waterlines and diagonals but no buttocks. https://digitaltmuseum.se/011024789832/ritning

Related but different questions:

- When did drawing a vessel full size (lofting) as an aid to building emerge?

- When were vessels first designed in scale on paper and then enlarged to full...

The schooner Hindu is being rebuilt in Thomaston, Maine. Budget is $500,000 with a GoFundMe fundraising effort. Hindu was designed by William Hand, built by Hodgdon in East Boothbay in 1925, and...

Appendix D of the 2010 edition of "Pete Culler's Boats" is George Kelly's list of Culler's plans. It shows the Sharptown Barge as catalog #128.20 with 2 sheets. T You could contact Mystic Seaport...

Imbalance due to irregular galvanizing is mostly a theoretical concern. All of our galvanized rims appear to have thin, uniform coatings of zinc. I'd be more concerned about overall wheel quality....

As Nick says above. Parts of wood boats are most frequently cut from boards . "Sided" is the thickness of the board. "Molded" is the distance between the usually curved sides.

BTW Laurie McGowan...

Based on what builder's expect today from plans Culler's plans for the "1840 British Cutter" might be best considered as a preliminary design. Anyone contemplating building based on those plans might...

Spartan Marine makes a deck mounted outboard bracket in bronze which is easily removed from inside the boat. Much more expensive than the Duckworths bracket but it would look better on a 12 1/2. ...

This boat is probably hot molded, not cold molded; made over a form with resorcinal or other heat curing glue and cured in an oven or autoclave. Hot molding was a common method for factory built...

I'll assume the weight and displacement of the longer boat is 20% greater than the shorter boat so they sit on the same waterline.

At all speeds the longer boat would have lower wave making...

An interesting idea. There is the counter-argument that what is only on the internet is more vulnerable to disappearing than what is on the pages of physical books. Time will tell.

In case you have not heard. 2021 show will be June 25-27 at Mystic Seaport Museum.
https://www.thewoodenboatshow.com/

Joe on Anne Bryant's podcast: Joe Filipowski shares his meandering and lucky past, during which he took his social skills, his chutzpah, and his love of history everywhere he went. ...

Very sad to hear. Joe was a nice man. His orations were amazing.

Offered for sale by the Port of Port Townsend: https://portofpt.com/boats-for-sale/

American Small Sailing Craft Their Design, Development, and Construction by Howard I Chapelle is no longer listed in publisher W. W. Norton's catalog. ASSC has been the most influential book on...

On Facebook this evening, March 31, a link to a opne letter from Steve White, President of Mystic Seaport: ...

mmd, thanks for the reply. The annotated quotes from the regulations were an attempt to explain what I was asking about and why the regulations do not appear to be clear.

I'll send a private...

Looks like the Pilgrim which sank in Dana Point was a differnt vessel than the one built by Dennis Holland. From https://www.ocean-institute.org/general-information/about-pilgrim

Today’s Pilgrim...

Is anyone familiar with the Transport Canada requirements for capacity and floatation which apply to small craft less than 6 meters in length? I have several questions after reading Construction...

Volume of a scaled hull will be length scale ratio x width scale ratio x depth scale ratio x volume of unscaled hull. If the hull is uniformly scaled to 90% of original size in each direction (10%...

Colin Archer was born in Larvik, Norway in 1832 to parents who emmigrated to Norway from Scotland in 1825. Archer grew up in Norway, spent a decade as a young adult in Australia, and then returned to...

Buttocks were sometimes used in the 18th century including in Britain based on the additional research described above. That leads me to conclude that my question should have been: .

Why did some...

Correction - Some of the lines drawings in Dixon Kemp's book do have buttocks, but no offset for buttocks.


A plausible explaination for a lines drawing having only waterlines but no buttocks or...

When and where were "buttocks" (curves on planes parallel to the centerplane) first used in designing boats and recording the hull shape in tables of offsets?

The lines drawings in Architectura...

The Maine Boatbuilders Show for 2020 has been postponed. The new date has not been announced.

From their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/MaineBoatbuildersShow/

Press release - March...

Day's Hardwood in Freeport had kiln dried white oak last summer up to 8/4 thick. Not inexpensive.

Hull Identification Numbers are needed for all boats built in the last fifty years or so. The individual states issue the HINs to builders who are not registered with the USCG and thus don't have...

Royal Lowell and Howard Chapelle use "middle line" or "center line" for the third line. John Gardner usses "inner rabbet" for the third line.

Only ads visible in threads on Microsoft Edge today is one at the bottom of each thread. I just ignore them.

I opened the link in Google Chrome and asked to have the page translated. Then played the video and the dialog captions were translated into English.

Boats: A Manual for their Documentation is available for download from the WoodenBoat Store for $1.95....

Why do you need to remove the coating?

From https://www.penbaypilot.com/article/sam-manning-memorial-gathering/123658

Sam Manning Mermorial Gathering

A gathering in memory of the late Sam Manning, marine illustrator and seaman, will...

A properly built lapstrake boat should not need days to soak up and stop leaking.

An alternative for ensuring watertight is a flexible sealant such as BoatLife polysulfide or similar. Walt Simmons...

Except that the crew member submerged up to their chest in the water will be losing heat much faster than if they were sitting in the boat.

Sam was a very nice as well as very talented person. We will miss Sam.

Send me a personal message with your email address and I'll send the Peapod study Powerpoint file.

Consider a VHF radio with DSC and built in GPS, not just DSC. Portable units with these features are now available. In an emergency the radio can broadcast an emergency message with location without...

How did you design the developable surfaces?

Elegant Italian loafers would make you stand out at the Maine Boat Builders Show.

And then there were the Broadwater production wood powerboats built in Mayo, Maryland. Six boats reportedly flooded/sunk due to delamination of the plywood planking circa 1974, and the company went...