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Most folks don't deliberately sail their boats hard onto the beach, especially wood boats they built themselves. They'll ease up to the beach and more likely try to hop out and drag the thing out of...

I'm the wrong person to talk you out of Oonagh, it's one of those small boats I keep thinking it would be very cool to build and use. But...looking out my window I can see three small boats that...

It's a book:https://www.amazon.com/Boat-Builders-Joseph-Miller-ebook/dp/B079QM59G3/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Joseph+A.+Miller+The+Boat+Builders&qid=1557799702&s=digital-text&sr=1-1

"The Boat Builders is...

Sweet rig. Where did you get the leading link front end?

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This is my Flapjack Skiff, a Steve Redmond design. 14' LOA with a spritsail rig. It is pretty comfortable with two aboard, here she is...

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UTV when you could be so much cooler on one of these?

Do you want to build a boat or go sailing? The former is an expensive, time consuming way to get to the latter.

Take a look at forum member Clint Chase's catalog, he's got some kits that'll go...

Nice boat, extra points for utilization of spare/scrap parts in the build.

I've been up at dawn to watch a few starts of the R2AK, chaotic enough!

That Ilur of his is a remarkably competent 14.5' boat.

Sorry to hear this Joe. Both of my parents are gone so I know what you're going through. You have my sympathies too.

Nice save! My van currently looks like this inside:
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New headliner is a daunting bit of...

Dude, who goes past the headline anymore?

Also:
Volkswagen Beetle History Volkswagen means “people’s car” and that is what the original VW Beetle was designed to be. Ferdinand Porsche is the name that most often comes up as the creator of...

A man named Ben Pon came up the original design in 1947 while the factory producing Beetles was still under British control. Later Heinz Nordhoff would dust off the design and the Transporter was...

Freakin' Swedish influence...

But I like it

I've seen a couple of old brochures that put the carrying capacity of the baywindow pickup at 1 ton. I think my '68 singlecab might have been rated at 3/4 ton. ...

I can't edit that weird red thumb out, and I'm not sure how it got there...

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Deck framing, main aft cabin bulkhead in place
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Dakar Rally

My training has been consistently inconsistent for the past 30 or years. Some phases I've chased the "big three" Wendler's 5-3-1 program was pretty good for that, I was an early adopter of Crossfit,...

Have you looked into doing some kettlebell training?...

Big bump

Arabella is out of the boatshed, on a trailer and moving down the road towards the water today.

The dreaded bad fuel pump (one of two in this vehicle!) was the deathblow for a '98 XC70 I had in my care for a brief period. A quick google search will reveal exactly where to cut the read decklid...

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My parents came back from Guam to have me on US soil and then Karl was sent to Naples Italy where they bought a...

Reading this thread made me realize I'm still using the Estwing I bought during the first week of college in 1984. A good hammer is a fine thing.

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He's back on the hard, "water ingress"...

Being part of the peer group/clan/tribe means acknowledging and obeying the hierarchy (or convincing the group that you are the hierarchy).

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Easy-peasy and if you use a grinder to finsh out your scarfs might even be wizbang...

Can we put the bogus "87,000 agents" claim to bed?

A little bit of digging outside of news sources controlled by Kevin McCarthy will get you to someplace like this:

"This claim misrepresents a...

Take a look at the pictures in this thread:http://forum.woodenboat.com/showthread.php?256300-Clothespin-scarf

Clothespin type scarf in both directions, keeps the mast at the built length....

Unless it is a matter of selling a kidney or child off to buy the materials, "Why not build an Adirondack Guideboat?" is a better question.

As the Wiccans say: An it harm none do what ye will

This illustrates one of my main concerns about the stock market. A quickly debunked picture gets posted and the market tumbles, Jerome Powell sneezes and the market tumbles, corporate profits are...

Close to the waterline too, I wonder who gets the job of running around closing them up before the sails go up?

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I use a couple of sawhorses too, with finish nails driven at roughly the angles shown on the plastic thing to...

These are only sweetened with 1/2 cup of pineapple juice. They seem quite sweet but I don't eat a lot of bread and when I do it is usually slow ferment sourdough.

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You men are a bad influence

I had similar looking spots in my bilge, turned out it was checking in the epoxy that let water seep in. If it isn't getting worse you might be able to just sand it back and let it dry out.

I got my first two tattoos a couple of years out of college while still Boston, 1990-ish IIRC. What can I say? I was young, dreaming of buying a Harley and reading too much Easy Rider. Had to go to...

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Looking at this chart I have to...

It gets worse:

The court filing also asserts "That we are in possession of approximately a year and a half of text messages between the Defendant's client and the Defendant, a sampling of which...

There's that "greatest healthcare system inthe world" at work for you

This

Opioid addicts have something like a 90% relapse rate so figuring out a way to stop the addiction in the first place is going to be key. I recently heard that (in the Seattle area at least)...

Over half a million dollars in oil and gas industry donations to his campaigns tells you a lot about his environmental position....more deep water drilling

Just based on what I've read here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Scott and my general distaste for people who still want to be associated with the Republican Party I'm calling him not all but...

She looks like a lovely little ship. I for one wouldn't mind seeing more of her if you have the pictures to share.

Wrong shade of blue to back, eh?

The estimated $600 billion in uncollected taxes annually because the IRS is short staffed would go quite a ways towards reducing that deficit.

We need someone from the GQP to explain what they mean by "less government" and what effect they expect "less government" to have on their lives.

I'm thinking of our super-red neighbor, Idaho (#6...

What exactly is it that your current oars are not doing that you want them to do? "14' skiff" "basic rowing" "10 times a year" sure doesn't sound like you need finely tuned spoonbladed oars or...

I've been digging into the "too sticky dough" problem as well. Two things keep standing out: 1) Too much hydration, I've seen pizza dough recipes with as little as 66% hydration and also read that...