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I've used these a bit . I find them much more useable if I tape the needed (81/2 by 11) pieces together with clear tape ;even if I then have to fold the resulting chart.

I liked the adze work. Splitting the pencil line 8:12-8:20 .

Ian I assume you've seen some of the large amount of live oak at Mystic ; brought up from the South after Hugo if I remember correctly .It's had time to really dry ; sweeping curves on some of...

I finally signed up with Off Center after receiving free videos for a time . Their 100th video ,Manard Bray touring Shaw and Tenny's shop, is a ripper . The 100 plus year old lathe and attachments...

Peter I laminated a 7 ft. stem out of Doug Fir that has proven to be sound . Made a number of other laminations with the same material . My approach to keeping the clamp pressure as low as possible...

The lake is rising quickly . http://lanier.uslakes.info/Level.asp . The weather's getting warmer . Time to fix my rudder, refinish my oars ,and overhaul my sailing rig !

I stay off the lake on...

I could not believe my eyes when I saw this on the back cover of Woodenboat ! I mean - the current New Yorker . Fashion degenerates into unwitting self parody it seems .
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Other forum ladder threads here:...

So;you could tap the hardwood block with a standard metal tap ? The pin looks like it has extra coarse threads on it. I may try your way.

Maybe sail as fast with a reef?

Todd ;I intended to ask you the same question ; and I also thank you for your generous posts over the years .

I'm going to try a lugsail on my Ducker ,and am leaning toward the standing lug .I've...

Clint here's a useful aid for figuring reciprocals while getting bounced around ,with no hands free. From 0 to 180 degrees : add 200 to the course and subtract 20 .From 180 to 360 : subtract 200 and...

Thanks for the beautiful posts kc . I some how missed this in 06 .

Here it is Bob . Includes comments by Bob Smalser in the discussion at the end .

http://www.woodworkforums.com/f152/few-stanley-78-tips-25657/

Here's what came in the box :...

There's a very complete tutorial on useing the # 78 available online . It's not necessary reading ,but worthwhile I thought .

sail-fan ; you say the hollow spar adds strength . Actually eliminating the inner wood improves the strength to weight ratio dramatically but weakens the spar somewhat . If you’re trying to...

JD your wooden rack is amazingly sleek .I've been carrying my 15 foot Ducker in my small pickup (6 foot bed) for several years .I see you have a receiver hitch already . I use a store bought bed...

Great stuff. Are there threaded inserts set in the concrete floor or just holes to accept lead lag anchors?

Thanks again Rod . I'll save these more carefully .I still have the prints of course ,but the old blueprint machine at Mystic did not produce a very clean print as you know.

Jenny Wren was...

I love the stuff and have used it for laminating fir and white oak just as it comes from the jug. This is a big convenience -typically no additives to mix in and it cures clear,even if it's filling a...

West does have the product in it's online catalouge.http://catalogs.westmarine.com/WebProject.asp?CodeId=7.7.1.5&Search=starports&BookCode=wma&from=2

Very interesting .Here's a link that worked for me. http://www.railblaza.com/products/view/starport/8/59/ Sold here by West Marine according to the website .

Jeff I think you're going to use a small sprit sail for your mizzen and plan to brail it up? That's what I have for my Ducker's Main ,all worked out in the 1800's . As you assumed it's done by...

It doesn't seem like you would need to carry both a spinnaker and a squaresail ; maybe Strange was showing options? You can just make out the centerboard gear ; a burton tackle on the house top that...

A recent poster has been looking at some old Albert Strange threads and asked me for the Augustina Sailplan he saw had been here .So it seems to make sense to pull this thread up and repost it here ....

I began to experience Strange symptoms back in the 90's and bought the book new. A price of 25 pounds is on the dust jacket from that period ,just to give some idea of price .

Donn I've found use for 2 winged slot cutters in my 1/4 in.router. These ,with matching straight bits , serve me in lieu of a bisket joiner . In fact one of the slot cutters is sized to work with the...

Your boat will have a long life Jim .Because of her beauty she'll always find a friend .I also think that your build blog is going to inspire some other builds .Congratulations to you .

I really like the look of the threaded coupling for the drain plug on a small boat . I've filed that idea away , thanks . I was thinking the nipple and cap plug detail you mentioned might be closer...

Grigg ;that initial newscast is great ,like meeting you at your shop .

The forward placement of the centerboard on the boats leaves about 7 1/2 ft clear aft of the case .You could bed down on the centerline ,on the floorboards .That could be a nice little world with a...

Maybe a shallower pitch prop should be tried .In the video Miss Sue charges off at what sounds like a pretty low RPM.

Angling at less than 20 deg. is more typical of what I've seen .Never saw the 45deg. sugestion .It would be best to go down and look at the boat , but to generalize : as your photo shows the plank is...

" No problems with West System, my understanding is the 5;1 ratio reduces the nasty amines by 80%[/QUOTE]


I'd like to hear more about this . I understood that all the brands share the same...

She looks incredible on the trailor . What a beauty . What a journey.

Bott; here's a piece of hardware from Duckworks that might work for you till you cast your own .http://www.duckworksbbs.com/hardware/p-g/rl494/index.htm

If Lattee is Lateen ,then what is Latine ?A boomed spritsail is what I've got .Good to seee it doing well .

What is the standard optimist rig?What is Lattee?

James; I agree that omitting the jib makes allot of sense on unstayed sail and oar boats , but now we're talking about the advantages of the cat and cat yawl rigs , independent of the lugsail's...

Roger you might be interested in a booklet by Leonard Popple called Advanced Ropeworking ; available used through Amazon .He worked some of his career in the naval dockyards of England .

He has...

I had to switch back to manually entering : paste URL The automated process stoped working for me some time ago .I lost spell check too . Don't even see the icon for that anymore.

That foredeck is a beautiful piece of work . Did you use the Auto Cad to make a full scale pattern ?

I don't know if you're thinking about deck hardware yet but I find a pair of cleats placed ...

Thanks for the post. That's all interesting .

Sayla ;this is one of those posts I'll print off and put in my "real" (paper) boatbuilding file . Have you now built such a transom? Food for thought .Thanks

I see what you mean James .You cruise inside the boat , adjusting sail as required and hiking out for extended periods is optional .Do you bring her up to hull speed from inside or does Rowan's added...

Back to the Oughtred boats : do you men have to hike out on the rail much? It seems that would be more comfortable with a bit of side deck (wash board).I've seen pictures of Ian (got the book ) hiked...

The footage of the schooner being sailed hard in the movie is of the L.A. Dunton , built in 1921 in Essex Massachusetts; absolutely for real and afloat at Mystic Seaport.

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White Pine has sometimes been used .Its' range extends South along the Blueridge .Sassafras is also available . C.A.G. lumber in Gainsville is listed as haveing both . I've...

Here's a lugsail (318 sf) on a 28 foot whaleboat .The yard is controlled at it's lower end by "a parrel around the mast",which seems most practical. I guess there was a parrel where the yard crossed...

Danny this is Otter; 24ft. by 7ft. by 1ft. 8 in. .She’s a crossplanked v bottom type sometimes called a filebottom , with lapstrake topsides.The type evolved in the Chessapeke and I built her from...