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My understanding is that Roger Barnes has many many feet of anchor chain under his floorboards. On my Gartside 130 I have an old stout deep wooden drawer full of a spare grapnel, some chain and spare...

Good to know about the German one. I couldn't afford the Reineck one myself. Lovely but half the price of my boat!!
I will happily have a galvanized anchor.

3 lbs is really enough for a 12'...

The price of the German one is more manageable. 1.5kg 3.3lbs.
That would be for a pretty small dinghy.

They also have these which seem reasonably priced...

I sure hope that megayacht goes down. When we see them in the Arm here they look ridiculously out of proportion and ostentatious.

Uber derail!

Which one holds better on your arm?

Yeah get the Manson one, maybe center of forehead

I knew there were several iterations of the fluke anchors but frankly don't keep up on them.
I'm imagining a scenario where someone wants an anchor tattoo and they look up anchor on the internet. ...

Wow!! That picture blows my mind! I guess I'm a ^%$^%$ socialist because I would never vote for someone seriously posing with a %^$^% assault rifle for a political promo image

Wow!! That picture blows my mind! I guess I'm a ^%$^%$ socialist because I would never vote for someone seriously posing with a %^$^% assault rifle for a political promo image

I was jokily wondering if people got tattoos of other types of anchors, other than the yachtsman/fisherman type..and lo and behold they do!
Wow!
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Yes you're kind of on the east coast right. Lot's of marine history there! I am deeply envious. Not as much here on the West coast of Canada and any little fisherman anchors end up being sold for...

Slight derail
Where can one find a small fisherman/yachtsman/herreschoff/kedge style anchor (Sub 10 lbs) without paying an arm and a leg?...or half the price of my boat!. Certainly doesn't need to...

Please put up more photos and info on this boat when you get some as it is a fascinating craft.

I have a question or two for Mr. Bradshaw if he has a moment.

Regarding my blue jib (above) that needs luff reenforcement. (I was trying it in some light airs and it set very nicely, in stronger...

I just made a flat bag and impregnated it with paraffin, did my sou'wester at the same time. After the paraffin the bag was like a board and my sou'wester was a helmet.
I made it to fit my little...

If you want to try it out do what a previous poster said, Get a piece of ply (6x8" ish) and cut a sculling notch in it and clamp it to your transom in the position you want. Make the bottom of the...

I have a center notch and I kind of wish I had an offset one on the right (I'm right handed) . The center one works but feels a little awkward.

My sympathies are with the whale

Milk crates are great. I use them for all sorts of storage, sadly they are largely too large to fit comfortably anywhere in my boat.
I wasn't going to affix a line to the grommet. It would be...

I'm making an anchor bag for my 12' clinker dinghy.
Primarilly to contain the anchor and keep it from mangling the boat.
The material is somewhat watrproofed but it seems like it might be prudent...

I certainly wasn't questioning what it is, I was just curious. I alreaady said it was a lovely boat. You are welcome for the sailing picture.

No problem. Interesting that for a schooner the foremast is taller than the main. I always thought schooners were often defined by mast height, with the aft mast being the taller of the two. Could...

No problem. Interesting that for a schooner the foremast is taller than the main. I thought schooners were often defined by mast height.

Pretty damn fine looking...needs a Canadian flag though
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This is your boat. Have you seen this picture on flickr ?
Looks like it's sailing all right
https://www.flickr.com/photos/14943728@N08/3950732705/in/photostream/

That's a beautiful and unique boat, Lot's of fun strings to pull. Centerboard?

Wow, cool!
Do you have anymore photos? Interior?
And why no floor timbers?
This seems like it should be over in Designs/plans,

Did the gentleman have a copy of the survey for you to peruse?
Did he haul it out and not paint the bottom while he had it out?
The topsides are glassed but not the hull?

I ran into an...

Is this a strip planked boat and you want to join strips together with angled scarfs that you want to glue with crazy glue?
Is that right?
My experience with super glue is that it doesn't like...

Bingo! But you forgot lacking credible interesting stories and intelligent dialogue. THere's a LOT of recycling in movie making these days and it is not saving the planet.

Well I was having a %$^% migraine this morn, however I stand by what I wrote and I don't feel I was ranting

. I have worked in film for some years, behind the scenes making sets so I'm not...

You can also go join imgur for free. drag and drop your pictures there and then copy and paste the conveniently supplied links to your posting here. You can post up to 6 pictures, full size.
It's...

Great stuff! Thanks for taking the time to post it.

An ex-girlfriend/lead singer's (oops) family used to own a small island on Georgia bay and we spent a few summers there. Beautiful area. I wish...

We are the evil in the world.
Everything else on this planet just exists
Evil isn't some outside force that manipulates people.

We are the only species so confused as to think we need to have a...

Organized religion seems to be all about power over others, control and money
Some say the catholic/christian church lost its way when it received its first land and $$ donations from wealthy...

Top Gun deserves an Oscar?? Isn't it just another patriotic military action movie? Basically a remake of the original? Besides box office $$ What makes it worthy of artistic merit?
It seems these...

I only know that because I was looking up the mirror 14 in the last week. Precious little information online actually

Probably around 8-10 knots at that point. That would be the top end of the wind I would use a foresail this size in . I have a couple of smaller ones (one is quite tiny), and of course, just the...

I contacted him when I was doing some restoration. He very nicely supplied a light scan of some of the plans. Haven't sent him anything recent. Maybe I will.
He understandably wasn't keen on the...

I agree , that's why I suggested a line of holes gets trimmed off and re-punched. You need a 1/8 - 1/4" gap prior to stitching tight (post soaking in warm water). I use the glue as it doesn't hurt...

Cool and much thanks as always. I have some 1" wide pieces cut out and creased.

I had it out yesterday for a brief sail as is and the leech was fluttering. I was thinking it was sheeting angle as...

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Mr. Bradshaw
For 'taping' up the leech. Does it require extra thickness/strength or is the intention primarily to keep the edge from unravelling/tearing?

I'm only asking because I happen to have...

I'd take them off, rough up the finish beneath them with sandpaper(if not already done) and then slice off one line of holes to make the leathers smaller, repunch new holes, soak in warm water for a...

Looks better than imagined on the boat. Almost matches the fire red of the brightsides 'bottom paint' and my Canadian naval ensign

Seems to work quite well. It was 8-12 knts gusting up to 16...

Ahh, Thanks. I'll look them up for fun.


Hey is it fine if I'm going to add a little tape to the luff of the sail, to do it ina few pieces, overlapped maybe 1/2" I have nothing that long and no...

2 very different sails the blue one is basically a right and triangle and has some wavy stitching though it has a sailmakers logo that's a kind of Star Trek logo shape with an 'R' in it
And there's...

Here they are. Humourous how bright they look next to the tanbark. Not exactly a match...
The red one is Holt sails made in England
https://i.imgur.com/TxKJwLZ.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/L0FbUuX.jpg...

Thanks. That's great to know.

Probably If I just attached my haylard to the yard with a topsail halyard bend I wouldn't be fussing with this problem.

But I have this bronze loop metal mast...

This is very interesting. I revisited it a few times.

My sail has 2 parallel reefs

I was setting up a downhaul system and trying to set it so I had enough travel to fully tighten the luff...