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I'm also interested in this technique of using edge-glued planks instead of traditional calking - has anyone else here had any experience with this technique? Can an old hull be converted with any...

Peerie, thanks - that's what I thought. It makes sense that she'll need *something* to keep her planks from working, absent the caulking.

Wizbang, thanks and please pardon my course language...

Hello WBers,

Several years ago I inherited a '47 Hinckley Sou'Wester that I've been lucky enough to maintain and sail. Lately (ok, really for the last several years) the bilge pump has been...

Crocker-design #100 Sea Dawn schooner here. India, formerly Wandaroo, formerly Charlene of Chicago. Built Chicago 1932, builder unknown. Hopefully she'll get off the hard this summer!

So,so sorry. But never forget, a good boat is worth saving. Our history is full of good wooden boats that fell to disaster but are sailing again. Somebody once said, "Don't give up the ship." It...

Ariel, a 1946 Hinckley Sou'wester, is named after Shakespear's sea sprite in The Tempest. In turn, the name derives from Ariel, a British tea clipper which in 1866 won the race under sail to market...

Hi, Ben. I never had the honor to meet him but I would like to have. Here's to the best of us; there're damn few of us left. Sorrow. Clint.

I hope all you forumites have a nice Christmas & a Happy New Year. It's been great to gab with you & looking forward to more next year. All the best, Clint.

Gronicles redux: Just a note on the valiant attempt by Margo to inform us about a certain type of gronicle: Her diagram is OK as far as it goes, but that's not veriy far. The trouble with it is...

All this confusion about gronicles could have been avoided if access to the only AUTHORIZED gronicle manual had not been interdicted by the Wayout Mongolian manufacturers because of frequent...

Could that stuff from India be jute?

Walt Simmons' book, "Repairs" is the best I've seen for clinker repairs. WWW.Duck-trap.com.





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See "The Boatowner's Guide to Gronicle Installation" by Dr. Mahmud Paradracian, Xanadu Press, Uulan Bataar, Wayout Mongolia. This is the only manual authorized by the makers of the only authentic...

Nat Herreshoff's 12.5, of course. Mine is vintage 1930 and I never get tired of looking at her.

When you fear sinking enough to stay aboard the first night or so after launching, go to sleep with a bare foot over the side of the bunk, and you will wake up when it's time to pump.

Big day!! She looks great. Well done.

Well Margo, you're getting close to the mark. Remember what I said a long time ago: don't rush it !!! Time you think is saved by hurrying turns out to be time wasted. After all this, what's a few...

To make a triple: Assuming that we're dealing with all-Merriman material and that you can get the pieces apart without too much damage: You could take a double block apart and add a third sheave,...

Looking for an old style Merriman #2 or #3 wood shell snatch block. Also a seam brush (narrow bristle brush, 6-8" long, for painting seams after caulking).

Hi Margo. Great!!! One step at a time, and don't let anyone rush you, including yourself. Launching dates are made to be ignored if she isn't ready.
Getting the mill in is a major milestone. ...

Pipe/tube bender.

John B.: Thanks. I am very happy to learn that Thelma and the other classic boats are in the hands of a capable and knowlegeable trust. Good luck to her.

It's so nice to see Thelma returned to NZ. She's a beauty, and I'm glad to see her being refitted. I sailed aboard her a few times when she was at Berkeley Yacht Harbor (CA). She was lively and...

Hi Chuck: Just add this to stuff you know already, but maybe someone else doesn't: If there's any danger of water infiltration up the threads of threaded rod, use solid rod, boring a smidgen less...

This thread got a bit away from part of the original question: how to remove the steel nut. You can start by soaking the nut with WD40, kerosene or some other thin oil. Next, try heating the nut &...

Great. great. great!!! You're sailin' along toward the last lap. I won't say "well done" until she's wet, but for now, GOOD JOB!!
CLINT

Hi Thorne: Yes, I have a couple of Simmons' CD's. They are quite clear and the photography is good. I have found his written work somewhat more useful since it allows for more detail and the...

I am replacing four 3/8" Spanish cedar lapstrake planks on a Shew & Burnham 12' Whitehall skiff. To refresh my memory on the procedure I consulted Walt Simmons' book on "Repairs" ...

I have made about half a dozen small boat tillers by laminating mahogany and sitka spruce, with no problems. The glue was epoxy. The top layer was mahogany, then about 9 layers of 1/8" alternate...

One of my sons has a 36' Sam Crocker schooner built in 1932. I was told by a former owner that the planking is swamp cypress, I think Taxodium distichum, with copper riveted sawn white oak frames. ...

Thanks, Duncan. It's just another example of an attempt to trade on the reputation of true mahogany (Swietenia spp.),
e.g. ,khaya, "African mahogany"). No doubt the cheaper price is justified.

What is "sipo mahogany"?

Those things are dangerous! Years ago I was on a race outside San Francisco Bay on a 50-footer. It came on to blow and the helmsman got a little nervous and went into a jibe. I tried to set up the...

Well, Phil, I was never famous for my wisdom. I was still doing work aloft until my late 'sixties. Then one day as I was varnishing a stick I lowered myself with a clove hitch. I missed getting...

Heck, Mr. Cleek, 58 ain't old as long as you kin git outa bed without groaning too much. Wait till yer 81 and then start complaining.

I would use Dynel, two thicknesses, for the cockpit floor. Paint each layer with epoxy. Lap it up about 1" around the perimeter and screw-fasten a 1" or 1-1/2" batten with bedding compound against...

I bought a 9.5 HP Evinrude in 1970. On a Crestliner 12' tin boat it ran up and down Mexican rivers, around estuaries and river mouths as well as along seacoasts, and took a trip on an ox cart. It...

Try asking 'Paladin', a frequent forumite here. He's had a lot of experience in those areas.

My seagoing lineage goes back to 1624 in Nantucket, home port for a whaling captain named Coffin. Beond that, ancestors in Somerset and Devon who may have gone to sea but no record. Then, no other...

Concordia 41: Hi Margo. You really don't have to worry about gronicles (at least for the time being) because female gronicles have been declared obsolete (see prior post this thread). In case...

Yep, Weldwood plastic resin glue. Easy to mix, easy cleanup, easy to remove the plug.. If the plugs are hard wood, e.g. maple, make the mix fairy thin and let the plug soak a few minutes before...

My preference would be to drill out the knothole, slightly oversize, following the angle at which the knot penetrated the plank. Install a slightly tapered plug from the outside. The plug should be...

Kon-tiki included Guadua, the "New World bamboo," not true bamboo but similar; used for decking and superstructure.

Some of the older meter boats (i.e. 20-22-30 squares) had pine or fir decks, natural or oiled, not varnished. These decks had good footing. You washed them with boat soap, no scrubbing with a stiff...

Despite the recent disinclination to discuss gronicles with Western correspondents, the true, authentic manufacturers of gronicles (made of wood from the rainforests of Wayout Mongolia) have offered...

It's very sad that Zaca fell on evil times and has not been properly restored to anything like original condition. She was the Nunes brothers' masterpiece, the largest vessel they ever built, and a...

Mavouneen-Mary looks much like the former Landfall II, a fixture for years around San Francisco Bay. We raced against her in Samarang during the '40's.
It's not all that uncommon to land the...

Now that you've learned much more than you probably wanted or needed to know about oak, take a chip of fresh wood out and learn. what it really is. It does look like oak but you can't tell for sure...

Mr. Cleek is right. Why spend more and fuss around with mixing a mess when the best seam compound comes in a can. The white lead-whiting-oil mixture was used before good seam compounds became...

You can buy cockpit scuppers with built-in rubber ball check valves. Most marine supply houses carry them. They do a fine job but are kinda expensive.