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Thanks for taking us around the world with such great pictures and details!
Festival looks amazing!
I was once there after a Sydney-Hobart race (86/87) and they said the area around the docks was...

Good luck with your recovery! Elevate, elevate, elevate.

yeadon's rec +1

Boat looks great! Glad your back is mending - as we age our back gets arthritic too and the facets get bigger and can shift with extreme rotation and/or bending - My advice is to use your mirrors to...

Re: #14, I think a draw knife does this job the best but you can whittle it off with a blade

The power company controls your hot water?????

Thanks for all of the great information and photos!

So with the pivoting design, you just tighten the cheeks on the blade enough so it only pivots if hitting the bottom?

I understand the...

From pictures it seems like it goes into a slot on the deck like a dagger board...?

I know they are largely FG/GRP boats but some have been made out of wood and I am interested in how the rudder works in terms of pivoting (? control ines), removal for grounding out etc. Thanks...

Nice pic in #26. The Bow Wave tells the tale.

Watched it a couple of weeks ago. Lots to ponder on. Two thumbs up. Some good lines "I'm good but I'm thinking about being..." insert laughing emoji

Just re read this great thread. Beautiful boat. did you go back to the curved tiller you had at first?

Thanks for the updates!

Grahm at B&B yachts has worked out a pretty cool self-steering vane design for his Core Sounds

Looks great!

from what I've seen these plastic hatches typically say "only use with silicone".YMMV

Have you launched yet?

there's a lot of boat aft of the wheels. sometimes water gets in bilge and once it starts moving aft... seesaw

lookin sweet!

your hatch with cars is intriguing. My first reaction was: will it move too fast and too easy? Most hatches I've used move with a little shove and then stay there until pulled back. Not trying to be...

we'd love to see your skiff and deck. look for the "framed picture of a tree" icon in the small tool bar of the quick reply box. click that and it is easy to post pics from your computer

JM - I had seen pics of the GG years ago but it had fallen off my radar - thanks!

11 foot waves in a lake. yikes!

Wow! Thanks for all of the great responses and photos!
I will have to give the push pull steering more consideration. Safety points noted too.
Many thanks!

Sorry about double post

Recently there was a thread about sitting comfortably in "very small boats". I often need to stand for back, butt whatever reason and have been wondering about cockpit design to allow seating and...

Recently there was a thread about sitting comfortably in "very small boats". I often need to stand for back, butt whatever reason and have been wondering about cockpit design to allow seating and...

For trailer boat 304 is probably fine but there is this-
IS 304 STAINLESS STEEL A GOOD CHOICE FOR MARINE ENVIRONMENTS?Clinton offers SAE 304 stainless steel, which can also be found under the name...

Will have to check it out. That was the summer after my freshman year in college and I was driving launch and managing the moorings for Oldport Marine - although we lost the cup - what a great...

"Build a sailboat that is light, strong, easy to trailer, have as little rigging as possible, (hence, freestanding mast) and be a simple design." - OP
Look at the Goat Island Skiff

I like the physics of the forward tiller but why not do without a tiller ala Herreshoff's Coquina?

Looking forward to your launching pics!Y>

I'd wait until done and you have had the boat in the water long enuff for nature to tell you where the WL is. And white may be the hardest one to keep clean...

Incredible! Thanks for continuing to share your work - and please, if you can, put up a video so we can hear the sound of all those brass parts moving when complete. :)

Absolutely Beautiful!

I know you must be very busy but I was wondering if you could comment on the dimensions of the cockpit seating/ergonomics and seat drainage - from pictures it looks very...

Good point,Wiz. That's why yours are on the deck? One thing I'm wondering about is if the boat is "half sunk", doesn't that likely mean your batteries etc are under water and electrical system and...

Cool looking boat. I'd keep the sticks painted above deck.

I don't know how important it is on these light boats but many recommend that the bow roller be just above the U-bolt in the stem to help prevent the boat from surging forward and up if you have to...

Maybe you could laminate and shape your center keel rest to match the rocker of your keel - that's what I did with the wooden bunks for my Shellback. The composite timber now available is really easy...

sweet and sturdy Y>

As Tolman said - "Build a Better Boat Than You Can Buy"

very pretty. Looks like a lil Galway Hooker

Lovely! Y>

are bubbles coming from outgassing from raw wood surface? Or are you applying to cured epoxy?

nice! what did you catch it on? In Lake E?

I think what happened is I went over the site's allowed 5 pics per day. Will try to post more later

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Launched 7/16/22. Nice day and gathering of friends and family.
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