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110$ damn...... I passed up one for 20 euros because I already had bought one for 12........

Around hare both straight and lippad adzes can be found but the shipyards closed down 100 years ago and...

As a union worker I want to thank fellow union men for doing the right thing.

I think that extremism is a religion on it's own. When I compare the gospel of the christian hate groups and the...

Aye. I like that song.
Brits have an amazing ability to write good songs about political matters......... whatever side they are on......
The interwiews would of cause have been more...

This one?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk18ZY318os

So that's the silk sail I have heard rumours about. Did it work?

I know that the old ballads regularly mention "silkisegl" but I have always seen it as a poetic metaphore for fine sail cloth of...

Looking at the British Isles from across the North sea it seems likely that Peerie Maa is right. Hard to say as I have never visited his country. However what worries me more is that since then...

Maybe that is what I should do with the little boat that lies upside down behind the fire wood stack.......rent it out to participants in Raid Finland......... a 13 or 14 foot square sterned...

I always feels good when I see a boat or a machine or a house with evidense of extensive well made repairs. Those marks show that the owner cares for it.

Tattoos is an art like any others. There are great artists and not so great artists and barn painters who falsely believe that they are artists.......

In general I have nothing against well made...

Just a fife....... barely a bad substitute for a fifie.......BY:D
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Reaper_in_sail.jpg

USA seems to be overflowing by fine secondhand bandsaws made by companies like Powermatic and Silver and Cresent and American and Tannewitz and Walker-Turner and many others. High quality machines...

I know what kind of car you are talking about but unfortunately it is getting hard to find new ones theese days:...

We have that kind of road problems in Finland too. Blue clay that becomes bottomless mud when the ground thaws in april. Mud season hasn't really started yet but it isn't far away.
We have a short...

Yep but Kotka is some 200 kilometres away. I wrote about it only to spare you the search for a museum that no longer exists in Helsinki.

-There was a maritime museum in Helsinki but they moved to Kotka near the Russian border a few years ago so there is nothing to see on Vrakholmen any more even though some tourist information still...

Scandinavian gutter adzes are often but not always sharpened on the outside. The handle has to be just right and the bevel angle has to be the same after every time it is ground. All straight adzes I...

First I found the site rather amusing and then it struck me......... there might in fact be people believing in this......

Wood does burn in a lava flow and the Schroud of Turin is produced more...

Insanity........... Just like if somebody actually built an accurate copy of Der Allmacht. The ship that was so big that her riggers had to make her threstletrees and caps extra long in order to make...

The Billings model depicts the fifth Norske Løve which was built at the Nyholmen royal shipyard to design by master shipbuilder Knud Nielsen Benstrup. She was launched in 1735 and passed sea trials...

More facts extracted from various Danish internet sites:

The life span of the six mayor warships that went by the name Norske Løve

Norske Løve (1634–1653)
Norske Løve (1654–1666)
Norske...

I would nail up some simple roof trusses from 4 inch boards and frame the walls with 2x4. Preferably recykled wood from concrete moulds or industrial pallets. Round unbarked poles directly from the...

Her name should correctly be spelled Norske Løve. ø and o are two different letters in Danish.

It means the Lion of Norway. The crowned lion figurehead is a symbol of Norway which was then under...

In all honesty I want to add that all Scandinavian ships weren't old leaky yonkers even if there were plenty of them. Many ships were well built and well maintained even though they had windmill...

.....Which is a barque in my humble oppinion. Astern of it is a ketch which to me looks like if it was built in Denmark or southern Sweden.

Judging by her sheerline I think that pump was rather busy most of the time. She looks hogged to me

Shipping timber to England was usually the last thing an old ship would do before being cut up...

There isn't much weight forward so the loaded boat floats with the bow as high as the stern. The overhanging bow has this shape to facilitate ice breaking and to be easily hauled up onto ice. Just...

The keel protrudes only about 2 or 3 inches below the garboard. The rest is a false keel. I have been told that there wasn't much left of the false keel after a two month long hunting trip.

What...

In the perfect rowing boat thread I realized that sea conditions that are normal to one person may be considered extremely harsh by another.

Therefore I will post a few links concerning a boat...

The lack of small boat pictures is mainly because I was in a hurry when I did the search but also because the bigger sizes are more popular theese days because they suit modern uses better in our...

The scandinavian boats would surely be left behind. I was thinking about this kind of criscrossing short waves we have on our bays around here. The kind of whether when you can go where you want...

Please calm down.

I think it is time to quit barking about government and the cost guard and insted do what the oldtimers would have done by now. They would have written a shanty about the heroic...

The barque Sigyn which now is a museum in Åbo (Turku) har it's windmill pump still in place. Windmill pumps were a surprisingly late invention but most Scandinavian ships apparently had one the early...

I have tried to find some excamples online....... but please do not listen too much to my oppinions because I am no boatbuilder nor boat designer.

Faroe...

I do not like the shape of the Hereshoff very much. It has neither flare nor high ends and as far as I know you one of them to stay dry. Boats with little deadrise in the garboards which in this case...

I have been taught that the rope grommets or "håband" as we call them should be made from twisted birch withies. This prevents them from sticking to the rather splintery surface of a well used oar...

I am even worse at making myself understood Especially in English) but I tried to explain that all those parameters depend on the water where the boat is to be used and on the amount of load it is to...

In Scandinavia most people consider our traditional double enders to be the best rowing boat. Unlike American peapods ours have quite a bit of deadrise in the garboard strake which make them row...

I wonder what those through bolts with big square washers on the engineroom ceiling actually are? I am just a house carpenter with an engineering education (life takes unexpected turns at times) but...

I look for the best technical quality I can afford or lay my hands on. That includes factors like steel quality, fit, balance but also that the tool fits in my hands and fits my way of working. Very...

The most important thing is that you found out what was wrong. Planing away that amount of wood should be no problem at all when everything is in good order. I know very little about those new fancy...

To me this whole discussion seems to indicate slightly inderdimensioned machinery. You are removing 10mm and want both sides planed. When I do joinery work I normally resaw to finished thickness plus...

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My father is resesearching about the American branch of our family. We have good reasons to believe that my second cousin William was the skipper of the charter fishing boat Pearl C which...

If you are going to build boats on that scale you will surely need the means to plane your wood by machine. Planers and jointers of the larger kind have a tendency to take up a lot of space for...

There is something I do not understand here.
Why people talk about "cheap" and then go straight for over-priced store bought materials like plywood and sawn timber. I wonder why people have became ...

-For electronic gadgets I would say a calculator which was discarded from the office where my father worked in the 90-ies. Probably it is from the early eighties or late 70-ies. Theese days it is...

Wow..... I am deeply impressed by this project of yours. From my Scandinavian point of wiew it all looks like a very good boat.

I live in an area where the sea is choppy and the boats traditionally have very low freeboard. By comparing those more or less traditional boats with imported or modern boats I have found ut that...

I should have double checked my facts on the state of the Chineese shipyards.

Procedure Handbook Of Arc Welding published by Lincoln Electric back in 1942 goes through recommended welding practices of the day. After reading it I think I understand why those early welded ships...

I was expecting a thread about huge tilting band saws and 30 inch planers and adzes and steam boxes....... or maybe gas torches and gigantic generator welders......or rivet hole punching machines and...