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Ah, I looked over my *own* Sailing Canoe pages and Chris, there in B&W is the poop on EEL at the Ches Bay MM. You just have to get down to the Canoe Yawl biblio section to see it.

I've added a...

Great stuff! Keep the comments coming... I will follow along on each of these.

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There is also another stash of plans at the Swedish National Marilime Museum from a Swedish designer whose name escapes me at the...

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The folks at Rockport Marine, Rockport, Maine could write volumes about one of Chappelle's designs gone seriously wrong.
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Probably the Colonial Schooner.

Sorry, not from American...

Have you built something from Chapelle’s “American Small Sailing Craft”?

Know someone who has?

I’m thinking about writing an article on the “influence” of this book and I’d like to get an idea...

Have you built something from Chapelle’s “American Small Sailing Craft”?

Know someone who has?

I’m thinking about writing an article on the “influence” of this book and I’d like to get an idea...

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The Isle of Shoals boat has a crane too .I think independent adjustment of the leech tention might be had by shifting the attachment point of the halyard's end on the gaff , tho you'd have to...

I suspect someone already posted the link:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~fassitt/canoe_mirror/canoe_yawl.html

... which is something of an annotated and illustrated bibliography....

Nope. GS15 is ... ? We're still trying to figure out how to build a couple "Sinepuxent" or rather Seaside Bateaus.

Yes, I know. Sigh.

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The geniuses at my ISP insisted I start using "www2.friend.ly.net" several years ago, and now they have decided to do away...

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The geniuses at my ISP insisted I start using "www2.friend.ly.net" several years ago, and now they have decided to do away...

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The geniuses at my ISP insisted I start using "www2.friend.ly.net" several years ago, and now they have decided to do away...

I sent someone thumbnails of CP Kunhardt's drawings; he said he'd link them here (I'm just too lazy to figure out how to link images; sorry).

The O'Brien topsail concept is findable by using the...

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Todd, you're right, way different smells in sanding, duh. I'll be checking that out next trip.
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Sanding or grinding polyester smells like airplane glue (styrene).

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Beats me. I can see where being able to raise or strike the sail while underway would be great, perhaps the only reason the two sails' systems are kept completely seperate, but I'm not sure the...

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I'm still a bit confused.
The poplar we have in New England will rot before your eyes on a damp day (small exaggeration). It's strength is, at best, in line with its weight. The only good...

The Phil Bolger "Peero" shareware design is a great little 12 x 24" sailing canoe ... well, nano sailing sharpie since it does have a transom stern; you could continue to a pointy stern if you want...

Brian,

you can use this same idea on a lugsail. I prefer that after trying it... I think it makes keeping the luff tight easier.

Conor O'Brien showed this, also, in one of his books and I...

There's probbaly a more specific answer to the question someone asked ...

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"Short gaffs reduce mast heights and are hoisted with single halyards - a 2-part throat hoist and a single on the...

Kayaks, Canoes, Rowing Craft all invited. We won't even chase away the small sailboaters who show up...

There will be a race in the morning, but you don't have to race to enjoy participating.
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Although it's not called a Messabout, there is one on August 2 in Rock Hall Maryland. Rock Hall's on the Eastern Shore about 1 hour from Annapolis, 2 hours from DC.

I'd love to see some other...

Well, we're bi-creekular, and the boat is a trailer boat ... or a canoe depending on our mood. Knocking on lauan, the Birdwatcher should be rehabbed and floating by July 12 !

That is to say our...

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I'm not going to waste much time arguing sailmaking with someone who isn't one, never has been one and probably never will be one <snip>
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Owww. I think we heard two different questions...

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Sorry Craig, but that's just plain wrong. It is damned near impossible to build small boat spars that don't bend in use and it is something that any sailmaker that's learned how to build small...

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Lace the foot to the boom. A loose foot = more bending.

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Everything being equal a lugsail yard, boom, and mast should not bend at all. Not at all. Any bend in the spars just contributes to a slack luff.

Stiffen your mast as the first order of business....

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'Tis very like a gunter...a balanced lug with the yard peaked all the way up, to make a sort of extension to the mast. Saw one on a Bequia whaleboat down in Grenada. I don't know anything about...

We're about 2 miles from Still Pond Creek -- well, at the head you can't raft up unless you're an egret -- the bird -- three miles from Betterton on the Sassafras.

We're also about 300 yards from...

"never noticed any even small thorns on the black locust trees around here, but next time I'm tramping about the woods I'll look more closely. "

Some black locust doesn't have thorns. Honey locust...

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Should be the right size for your goat as well.
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I find my goat needs about 30 extra square feet to head upwind reliably.

Seriously, you can find the Canoe Sailing Resources 2003 page from...

"Eel" had maybe 2' draft with the board up. It was sharp-keeled, not flat like Steve's Elver, but had a steel (bronze?) centreplate. As they called 'em. Some ofthese "canoe yawls" had a plank keel,...

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Hey Craig,
Wasn't that an Elver you did the polytarp sail for a couple of years ago at MASCF?
Ron
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Yah. Bob Cavenagh's Elver. If we'd a had wind we coulda sailed!

For those who were not...

I've been looking through the Chapelle photo collection at the Ches Bay Maritime Mus for anything interesting covering several boat types.

I'm principally researching the "Sinepuxent Skiff" or...

All seriousness aside, the Elver is a nice little boat.

Coincidentally, HIC's ghost and I have been going through the Chapelle photo collection at the Ches Bay Maritime Museum in search of...

Now what's all this about skiffs and sharpies? Francis, you should be *ashamed* of yourself coming up with that complicated leeboard sharpie.

A pretty boat, but neither cheap nor easy to build...

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however, I have the mast and the flashy pink sail. Any good for attaching to a canoe??
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Mast, most likely. Sail, depends how large it is. Also, you'll certainly need a boom for the sail.
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Picture NAUTICAL NAMES ABOUT A BOAT,larger image,

correct address is:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~fassitt/
canoe_mirror/miller/illo_01/Names_lg.JPG

I think I fixed it, but I'll...

Damn,

I'll miss old Uncle Pete. Am I the only one?

I always found his column far, far, funnier than "humorist" Kasanof.

An update to the Cheap Pages:

http://www.friend.ly.net/~dadadata/short/gandy.html

Garvey by Gidge Gandy (ca 1920)

Yep, Rock Hall is a nice place. Somerset and Dorchester Co's have even more workboats scattered around in various small communities.

Gotta say though that the definition of "deadrise" in the...

Hi Brian,

Miller calls Wee Bee a ketch rigged bateau. It is somewhat Bolgeresque.

I thought about only posting the canoeing stuff, but the book is interesting enough in general that I included...

Where are you? I know the Maryland area reasonably well.

The Library of Congress may have bound issues of MotoRBOATing, or however they spelled it...

The US Naval Academy Library has many of...

If I'm not mistaken the "Delaware Ducker" rig -- a ducker being something akin to a beamy canoe -- uoften used a boom with jaw on a spritsail.

Todd Sez:

Sprit-booms are subject to the "bow and...