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Oh, I'm still around occasionally. Betty and I have recovered from our recent old-age medical crises and I haven't been driven off by any of your more brainless trolls and sailing bums masquerading...

Forget this nonsense. I suggest you go get some help.

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The old standard for Number One grade was 8 rpi.

The notion that high-rpi old-growth is stronger than plantation wood as low as 4rpi is easiy debunked by examining old USDA Wood Handbooks. They...

I've done that a couple of times. Works fine if you get the batten right. Take a few circular saw blades (preferably non-carbide) to your local resharpening service and have them ground to...

Steps on too many toes. Check your PM.

4. Glue in soft, WRC wedges to one plank edge, and apply cotton caulking to the unglued side. Forget using hard DF entirely.

You don't have enough shrinkage to use that method yet without removing...

There's a world of difference between "paying seams" with 5200 atop cotton caulking and coating plank edges with it ILO cotton caulking.
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The whole idea behind the original strip-planking concept was that the average fisherman with low-end building skills could come home at the end of a long day out on the water, butter up some 2X2's...

"Tight-seam" carvel hulls sans fiber caulking were built from the 1880's to WWII as high-end yachts and racing boats. After closely fitting a plank, a small-diameter copper rod was often used as a...

The down side of WRC is that although it's a tough wood, it's also soft, and is prone to cosmetic dents and divots when it collides with corners or sharp objects.

In turn, the up side is it's...

These are knotty, sun-grown trees of relatively recent vintage, some of the knots too big to mill 2X4's. And only four trees total. Sorry, Charlie. I'm not moving heavy equipment around for a few...

The Breitbart organization already has Romney's next ad targeting legal, unemployed workers (and voters) written for him:


Obama Jobs Program: Help Illegals Compete with Americans for Scarce Jobs...

Pure spin.

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Democrats have a much larger problem ahead than the Latino vote turnout. You don't have a comprehensive plan, and your previous plans have been expensive failures. After a rough primary, Romney is...

"Sure sounds like Rubio's plan to me...while I agree that the Latino vote is important, even illegals appreciate originality - which President Obama does not have. Lets summarize Obama: No real plan...

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Sure. In Europe and the US.

But rules change over time and what we used to shoot "low-gun" is now shot from the mount. Dunno why, as I prefer low-gun. We shoot International Trap with 15 machines...

As hustlers can only cheat other hustlers, there should be no worries, eh?

The Super X Model One or SX-1. Made from 1974 to 1981 as a companion for the Model 12. A unique gas-operated design,...

Different tools for very different tasks.

Matched pairs of doubles custom-fitted (and initialed so they wouldn't get mixed up in the gun room) for driven pheasants or grouse shot relatively light...

I love fine European doubles and own several. English, French and German. But when real money is on the line at a big PITA or ATA shoot, nothing beats our Winchester SX-1's, the finest competition...

Sounds OK. Run 'em in close with a power driver and finish with a brace and screwdriver bit. I like a small, 6" brace for most screws. Power driving them in all the way isn't the best practice, as...

That's only for fancy work with light-duty hardware. Bung your refastening job without trying to time the screws.

Stop using the chart and drill some test pilots in scrap instead.

A combination of soft screws and hard wood requires some fine adjustments no chart will provide you. You should even slice a few...

Sounds like diabetes to me. I'd tread lightly.

Where'd you get the plans? Supposedly they are hard to come by.

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Nope. Buildup creates a maintenance problem in an area tedious to sand. A power wash set on low power followed by another wash coat every few years will do the job.

Expensive and poor durability. Most "tung oil" finishes...aren't, anyway; they are artificial.

Buy a good quality spar varnish with lots of body...like Epiphanes...thin it 50-50 with real...

It turns black in the sun. An exceptionally ugly, blotchy, scaly black, too. Fine for work boats. Not a good choice for anything you want to remain pretty. Use varnish instead.

I'm not recommending it at all over rated marine glues.

My point is that properly used, it's another tool in your kit in situations where moisture contents are higher than the 12% required for...

After some testing, I've done quite a bit of lamination using liquid polurethane glues, and have not had any problems at all in as long as ten years service in boats left out in the weather. It's...

1) Talk to your legistator. That's what you hired them to do.

2) Nonsense. Automatic funding perhaps, but not an appropriation. If there's a real need, there shouldn't be trouble getting an...

Do I need to tell you that you already elected somebody to do that? Communicate with them.

The money will be there, soon enough. Between all the major groceries, Fred Meyer, Costco, and whoever...

Rising tides lift all boats.

+ vendors = + jobs = + tax revenues = more money available

Letsee....

Here we have wordy gobbledygoop, elitist snobbery, hasty analysis, and a lame, big-government agenda all rolled into one.

OK. Let's disregard that one can now acquire a very large...

What a crock. Learn how to shop.

Safeway, for one, is running loss leaders that are far, far cheaper than even the miltary Class IX stores. Fleishman's Gin and basic Dewars Scotch in 1.75 liter...

'Frustrated...Democrats, while wiping the Badger State recall election bloodbath from their shoes, are bombarding the nation with excuses, mitigating circumstances, and outright denial of their own...

Me, too.

Our income has been reduced by about $2500 a month because Obama implemented the liberal dream rather than concentrate on the economy during his first year in office, creating a level of...

Love that wishful thinking.

The only reason you were outspent was your internal polls showed there was no way you could win it. Your committee decided to save money and save face by cutting off...

Obama's jury meets in November. Don't get your hopes up.

Walker 60 Barrett 40 with 40% in. Close election, my ass.

It's about using government resources for campaigning. A complete joke, given Obama's abuses.

Plenty of cross-planked skiff were built without caulking. But to be watertight, that means they had to remain in the water all season, and also partially sunk, to be pumped out before use. Then...

Why?

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Unless you've already glued them on, it shouldn't be difficult to remove the bottom planks. A heat gun and...

I don't have one, either. No need. In new work there are plenty of work-arounds and in repairs I can generally work faster by hand.

But for those who need one, Dremel is now making one that's...

Sinbad arrived at the perfect solution to your problem about 40 generations ago. The fiber-caulked seam.

It tightens and unifies the bottom, adding strength and allowing for a smaller...

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Blocks for winch and oarlock.

Just insure the blocks are connected downward to the deck framing by drifts for strength.

Musical variety is new and fresh and Keillor is a genius for inventing it? Please. As Glen Campbell gags and Minnie Pearl, Lawrence Welk, Ed Sullivan, Johnny Cash, Porter Wagoner and a few dozen...

For a while, anyway.

Just make sure you use glass and not Dynel or some other newer, gummy fabric so it's relatively easy to sand off when it fails. That way you won't lose the whole boat redoing...

My family used to build one or two of these at the end of every outdoor building season to use up remaining materials.

Forget the glass and epoxy. You don't need it and the boat will hold up...

Most of the teenagers who work part-time for us are afflicted with one thing or another, mostly ADD and bipolar. Betty teaches math at an Alternative School and providing the experience of paid work...