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Lucky and talented both?
Given the stout chain, you must have some hefty friends porch setten.

So, what's the boat? Work boat, rode hard & put away wet? I'd use whatever the real work boats use. Yacht? Use the good stuff, the pretty stuff, mahagany, ash, w-oak... screwed on , not glued.

Thanks Mike. 'Sheaves" popped into my head late that evening. Really annoying sometimes.

A 25' or 30' planing sail boat with clipper ship scantlings.
I can'r wait to see it in action.

True enough Mickey.
I wasted some time roadracing a Yamaha 250cc race bike. The cost was as much as I could afford at the time. Later rather than sooner It dawned on me that the guys with more or...

Winning in all sports (playtime unless you get paid) is expensive, but there's always the Friday evening pick-up races - beer and trash talk afterward.

Didn't someone say, "If you have to ask, you...

Have you loooked at bench designs? Google maybe. Library books like The Workbench Book. Searched the Forum.

Michael's (professional NA) opinion is worth far more that the electronic "paper" it was written on.
If I were you, I'd take his advice to heart. But then I tend to suppose that listening to smart...

Our Beloved Benefactor's 2013 Small Boats page 31 upper right corner, has a picture of the Finnish Savo 650S row boat w/ home made but nicely done different take on sliding seat mechanisms -...

Yes it could be done.
Yes there are various ways to manage it, some a lot of trouble.
My brother has to raise his mast with a sort of jibboom contraption. A whole lot of trouble and occasionally...

So, are those seats like Hamilton's supposed to tend to keep you centered in the boat? Nice price.
Store bought cane is way faster than scratch weaving if that matters.
Camping stores sell...

Phil Bolger once commented that there was a guy who invented an elaborately engineered gizmo for yanking out screws unaware that a screwdriver was called for....
Hmmm.

I wonder why that often seen lashed/scarf keel piece isn't one piece?
I get it that these were made from whatever fetched up on the beach, but we/you can get most any length we might need for one of...

Or a gaff yawl with short masts.
Better yet, a boat suited to your area as Thorne said.
We all want what we can't have don't we. Perhaps happiness is wanting what you can have.

The new ballasts are electronic.
The 8 in my shop and 18 in the basement (yah, I don't like dingy and they were loss leader cheap) are 6 or 8 years old and going strong, but I'm only occasionally...

Thanks for that.

All true enough, I suppose, but the given warning was about overheating which is quite the opposite from what I'd learned way back when. That (overheating) was what I found odd. The warning was...

The local paper has a bit about small motors being damaged by E15 (E10 suposedly ok) overheating the engine. Messing up the fuel system wasn't mentioned. Spring gardening advice.

In my motorhead...

Sure there's alternatives. Carvel, trad. clinker, glue & screw ply. wicker baskets and ox hide, lashed wood frames and walrus hide or polyester/paint kayaks.

You wouldn't catch me out in a boat...

IMHO Woodpeckers stuff is insanely expensive for ego driven tool collectors to impress their buddies.
But that's just me.
Be that as it may, I'd do them in what amounts to a largeish box joint jig....

I think I'd go for the skeet boat and buils a small hydroplane for it just for the fun of it. Theoretical pluses or negatives be damned.
A gentleman's runabout might be happier with a stronger...

I have not seen Michael here in a while, but he's a NA who has designed and overseen the building of fire boats, tugs, etc, IIRC.
Sorry, I can't remember the last name. From and works in Canada, I...

Googe Bros do a roughly triangular mast on DN's IIRC. It ends up more or less teardrop shaped.

Dave Erskine, Seattle, 206-354-0875.
One of the good guys.

With a start like that, no telling what the kid will grow up to be.
Really nice, BTW.

They'll give you a start on learning skills.
The facility is a hoot. The staff is great. A nicer place to spend two weeks would be hard to find.
If you want to walk away as a journeyman...

If it's to be ply, what are the frames for?

An OZ boat with a keel sporting an end plate took the America's Cup away from the NYYC.

It gets stranger every year.
Yes!

Bent? Sawn/fabricated?
You can, you may, use whatever you got.
Do the best you can for the use envisioned.
Perfect is an unattainable goal of course.
How long is it to last? One claiming race,...

My son has had both bad and good luck with professionally applied epoxy floor sealing. Quality of prep may have had something to do with it.

As above, the shop cries our for the wood floor. Your...

Spoonbooty?
Seriously, someone called their town Spoonbooty?

But back to the subject at hand, - Greg's comments may be a touch offfputting, but he has a point. Learn the limits and...

Thx:)

Port Townsend's Fall season (after most of the tourists go home) Kinetic Sculpture Race gets won by a peddle powered canoe that goes straight from the street and into the water. His wheels have...

Gives new meaning to Marina Queen.

Where are the on the water pix?

When your so called friends hear that you're building a boat in the house, they laugh and say you'll have to tear down the house to get it out. Man, don't be that guy.
Civilians think we're crazy...

A battery powered pump to use when swamped?
I think I'd take a 5 gal. bucket with me. And one of those bicycle pump style hand pumps to finish off.
+1 on the controlled capsize experiment! Less...

The Chandelry (sp?) Port Townsend, WA (a function of the Wooden Boat Foundation) sells ones made there by local craftsmen.

Unless you want vast quantities of sawdust for bedding or mulch why not order bead/cove strops from one of the several purveyers of same? Are you planning to fell the tree, split out the boards and...

I'm given to understand that paint may show mistakes more than varnish. With varnish your eye goes to the color and grain. With paint you see the surface - perfectly fair or lumpy as may be.
YRMV....

You can try to game the system for a few dollars and take the risks noted above, but why add to that sort of grief in an already difficult world?
If no boat was built, build one if you like. If you...

I think you adore complexity for its own sake.
Good luck with that.

Ditto. Same experience. If you're strong and acrobatic enough to climb out with a rope ladder, you probably can manage it with no ladder at all.
What sort of rudder on your cat? If it's one of...

You'll probably want to keep the finished boat out of the weather. Why not make some sort of more permanant shed addition to the garage? And never, ever, let the family put their junk in the...

Guys (not me for sure) who restore old cars. Guys who work for collectors. Jay Leno's garage people.
I expect it could get absurdly expensive to blueprint them - as in rebuild to perfect specs....

I know a really nice family that was held up and abused some by pirates. He claims not to think pirates are kool or funny, but rather murderous thugs.
I take his point.

However, nice work if you...

Properly aged, huh?

Are you thinking of a Dispro type boat hull? They used to make them just across the Sound from you (well, sort of) in Poulsbo.

What's wrong with rivits? My old 250cc TD-1 Yamaha roadrace bike with an Italian aftermarket magnesium 4-shoe front brake had rivited linings that worked like the hand-of-god and never a fade or...