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Here's a couple old fireplaces. This soapstone stove is on a K Aage Neilsen yawl built in the 60's. I don't know if it is original but it looks like it would work well.
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Hi John, nice fiddle block. These are different. All bronze but with plastic (phenolic) cheeks.

Thanks, Garret, I'll keep an eye out. You remind me, I have dozen South Coast snatch blocks from the early days when this boat was raced. About half are large with a 3/4" capacity wheel.

At the...

I follow your progress, Chuck. Great job. I posted a group of Concordia yawl photos for their upcoming 75th year celebration. Beautiful boats to photograph.
You'll be here, at the docks, soon...

My 1961 Alden Challenger has many South Coast parts from winches to blocks.

I've wooded and re-glued my boom and had a couple bronze parts repaired at Rockport Marine.

My mainsheets shackle...

Whatever you use, try to get it as low as possible in the cabin.

That's one of the hardest things to do, but I for a radiant solid fuel heater, it's one of the most effective things you can do.

I do. 40 Winks is a beauty. I think it was designed for a client to sail in the Bahamas. Centerboard; 3'3" board up. It's cold molded on frames. Pretty spare boat; halfway between a daysailer and a...

Thanks Dryfeet. Here's a study in yawl designs I shot last night. 1938 Concordia alongside 2005 Bruce Kirby(36' LOA).

Sailboat design will change, but someone will always want a yawl.
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I've got 13 seasons on the first yawl I've owned. It's been MY experience, the rig falls somewhere between two extremes; the "magic sail" some enthusiastic proponents describe; and the rabbid...

A few more photos I took yesterday at the show. I can't think of a better old building for a boat show like this.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8374/8565156078_6dd21dae34_b.jpg

Half the fun is...

That's it! I learned to sail on wooden lightnings and a plywood Alcort Sailfish my dad built in the basement.

But the oldest memory for me, is being below the small foredeck of a 16' Lyman...

Wow! Great photo. Glad to be ashore on the coast of Maine today.

It blew hard here in Rockport and the wave action was like a Cuisinart to the ice we had.

I'm experimenting with urethane fortified acrylic porch and floor by Rustoleum. I've used it a bit on high traffic floors(construction) and liked the way it held up. I painted my glass decks and...

We have 3, 40 gallon monel tanks on our yawl. We usually don't fill the bow tank because it sinks the bow a few inches! But with a family of four off for a couple weeks, we do fill them all, and I...

No flotsam is safe from my wife. Our dinghy sometimes is so full, I can hardly get in it. If we go for a few weeks, I have to convince her to leave stuff behind(I never win). She's an artist and uses...

Dogs are like kids. If you take them sailing as puppies, everything gets figured out easily.

Size of the dog matters to me on a boat, smaller is easier all around, but that's a personal...

I was given the book Maine Sail by my wife, an artists journal of a typical downeast sail. But it turned out to be a gift that gave more.

Almost at the end of the book(watercolors and few words),...

You might try one of those small digital movie cams that can be pushed through small channels.

My boat yard has been using one to go through the masts(spruce and metal) to see where there are...

You're welcome, I hope it helps. I use Flickr, a free website hosting website, and I've found it easy to use. Once you get some photos upload, just click the SHARE button, then copy the URL, and...

I'm not so much a fan of Boatlife as comfortable with it's shortcomings(I've made all the mistakes now,...) In my boats case, the trim is a bit delicate. I had to cut it all out new when I rebedded...

Nice series of photos. Looks warmer, much warmer than it felt here in Rockport today.

If the frame trim pieces are small, I don't think the tape type bedding will give you the squeeze out you need to fully seal all the joints.

And Sikaflex I have found, is permanent when it comes...

I would use a hard antifoulant paint for an under coater. Then I'd add coats of ablative, when needed, of a different color so that you can see(the base coat will show through), when it's getting...

I would take the old paint off. First, I'd try a heat gun and scraper. Because it's easy to move around, maybe paint remover if the heat gun didn't do the job. Sanding would be my last resort.

I...

Maybe you mean that the surface which is rough now, is that of old peeling bottom paint? My bronze board is a little rough due to bottom paint that probably should be stripped off. I haven't done...

Yeah(ayuh). I lived in Vermont for over 30 years and now on the coast of Maine for 14. Both states have so much to offer, but finding the right place to live your life(a lot of variables for every...

I was given a tour of this nicely built(Brooklin Boatyard) Cy Hamlin design. This is the owners second Cy Hamlin boat and he's very happy after a first season....

Some wonderful photos posted. These were my best sunset shots this season. We enjoyed a spectacular sunset in the Eggemoggin Reach off Woodenboat School this past September....

It was moored in Rockport Harbor last week and left on a trailer. http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8200/8153431397_55b329b81c_b.jpg

Thanks for posting this boat. I'm a fan of the "new" daysailer designs(many are not :) ). One thing some rail against is the cost. I don't get that. What does a new 36' custom coastal cruising boat...

Ernest Hemmingways fishing boat PILAR was a Wheeler I believe. He commissioned them to build it and the whole builder/client process as well as Wheeler history, is documented in the biography,...

Here's your photo on Flikr. http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8450/8059155732_d2a705d4d4_b.jpg

I'm just amazed by that series of photos. Is that the power of winning, the fear of losing, on display, or just inattention?

I can't believe the race is that important so I'll think positively...

My wife is no old codger, but she loves to row. http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8310/7976059151_76347f477a_b.jpg

With my yawl of more than a decade, what you say is true. It's fine sailing off the wind jib and jigger up to a beam reach.

She'll go to windward a bit, if conditions are good for it. If I drop...

We spent a memorable night last week on a Woodenboat school mooring. The sunset was the show but while we enjoyed that with several other boats in the harbor, it was the sounds around us that seemed...

That's the best part, it's self priming. I never would believe that and still use a good primer for a sandable build and adhesion, but in this case(a reasonably quick deck job), I'd found the self...

Yes. A few years ago I started using the new acrylic/polymer(whatever it is) latex porch and floor enamels on a project. I've never found a decent water based anything over decades. This stuff is...

Sailing into Pulpit Harbor is almost as much fun to watch as doing it yourself. Your first tack in a southerly is a short starboard until you get as close to the rockweed as you dare.

Then it's...

I haven't read this whole thread but I think you should think about an older boat, that may well be glass, or wood. They are a good deal right now with few that can sell for anywhere near what...

Great photo! Nice to hear bits about all the countless nooks and crannies on the New England coast. I'll have to get there next time I'm in the area.

Isn't that the truth. They all have their load limits, dinghys, and when you reach that limit, it's "nobody moves, nobody gets hurt".

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I considered building a Shellback years after building the Nutshell. It's a better performer under oar or sail. It's has a more slender shape at the WL that gives it a better glide and track than the...

True enough and I followed your travels so you have good experience with your dinghy.

Our first pram was 8' and worked well for a decade. Then we raised two kids in the last 20 years in our...

It sure does under the right conditions. We're coastal sailors that will overnight occasionally so I can get accurate weather forecasts for our time frame.

The usual fix is a bowline connection to...

Then I misunderstood your towing priority. If it's simply drag and not heavy weather, a well designed Pea pod, Whites Shellback and many other great performance(under oar or sail)
dinghys would fit...

I'll put in my 2 cents because you twice mentioned, tows well.

I don't think there is a tender that tows as well as a pram. I've towed prams up and down the east coast from Canada to the Exumas,...

Great photos. Where do you find the results?

I think the ADVENTURESS will be at the MBH&Hs show in Rockland. She left Rockport a few days ago. WHEN and IF to port and BOUNTY starboard, just out of the sheds.

Been quite a launching feast...

We've had a few boat dogs, here's our current two, short legged, long haired, Jack Russell and a rescue of unknown ancestry with big doe eyes. Nobody gets near the boat unannounced....