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Still, building by eye is a time honored tradition. Many of the boats featured in articles in the magazine were built by eye, thinking especially of the basket built boats in one of the latest...

The width of the blade on a bandsaw is often ignored. It is nice to have a collection of blades for band saws just the same as a table saw. A wider blade will track straight lines and broad curves...

flag staff? art deco flag staff chromed :-)

I once saw a pic of a Victoria 18 that had been converted to an open boat. It looked great.

Check with the insurance companies also. I think many requirements change at 38'. Automatic engine room fire suppression and such.

Couple of pics showing the engine box dash.


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The Viking I am working on shows no signs of ever having had a side steering station. For those of you unfamiliar with this boat, all of the engine controls and guages are in a dash built into the...

check out this thread from last week...

http://forum.woodenboat.com/showthread.php?119780-benthrift-trying-again!

Wow, I would imagine there are ways of doing it but maybe you should consult with a Marine engineer or architect. Since the previous 3 beams were cut out what is resisting the outward forces...

If it has to stored outside I think the best is to put it under a tent, not under a tarp. You can get those carport type tents for not a whole ton of money. Put a loose paint tarp on it to keep...

Placing the boat badly on the cradle is what cracked the glass. I have added keel rollers to the trailer (you can sort of see them below the wood blocks) so the weight of the boat is now born on the...

This is the repair area. The fiberglass was split along the lap with the garboard plank with most of the intrusion where the bare wood is darker. The dark areas on the hull paint is from contact...

I'll try to get some pics of the repair posted tomorrow. Thanks for the help.

I don't know why the original owner glassed the bottom, and I suspect that the OO did not do the job. Quite possibly somebody talked him into it back in the day of the 'miracle of fiberglass'. It...

chop heh :-)

Well, I'll tell you what has happened so far...actually quite predictable. I used the Craftsman tool with the sharp paint scraper and it worked like a champ....except one of the...

Wiz

You've got me intrigued...can you describe the technique?

It's the perspective of the shot, I can get the boat under it if I duck the trailer jack all the way down....but just barely :-)

Thanks for the replies, very helpful. I can get a grinder from work, but I have recently picked up one of those craftsman vibrating multi-tools. It might be easier to use than the grinder on the...

I wasn't intending to remove the exisiting glass to the wood, just to patch ontop of the existing. Yep epoxy. But there does seem to be a filler of some sort over the glass job that isn't paint, it...

So my basic question is how I should prep the existing bottom painted glass. My plan was to take the paint off with acetone and then sand the filler down to the weave. It doesn't need to be...

Would those not be the setscrews to keep the cutlass bearing in place? I think it only needs water for the lubricant. Is there a stuffing box inside the boat? Could be completely wrong however :-)

This is an interesting thread. I checked 'heat treatment' in Wikipedia and got this article (which includes a section on heat treatment) here's the link if interested...
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Can white poplar, popple or Aspen be heat treated also? Is this stuff expensive? I once cut bridge planks for a woods road out of our local poplar with a chainsaw. It is beautiful close grained...

Is yellow poplar also known as tulip tree?

At the boat show many of the boats will have only been in the water for a few days :-) They might be really really wet if they haven't swelled, or they might be completely dry if cold-molded and...

Remember, a properly adjusted stuffing box should leak. So the likelihood is high that any boat with inboard engines or rudders will have at least some water in it. Boats with significant draft can...

Generally, the primary reason for selling a wooden boat is because the hull is in need of repair. Or let me amend that a little, generally the hull of a wooden boat is ALWAYS in need of repair. ...

dont right click the url select it with the mouse (click and drag through the url just like in a word processor)...then right click the selected text and it will give you the copy option

almost...

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aha!!!!

on flickr you need to click the select size tab...

Me again. I just tried to look at your pics on flickr and neither your username boatbuilderchap or pics are searchable...maybe you need to check the privacy settings on your flickr account to open...

ahhhh, you might need to retitle the picture without using spaces...sometimes that can screw things up. Try changing
'shearwater building jib' to shearwater_building_jig

edit: I would start all...

In the end it might be easier to replace the bottom. Especially if the reason he put the Rhino Liner on in the first place was because it was pretty far gone. How does it look from the inside? ...

There is another reason to talk to a surveyor. If you are going to keep the boat at a private marina you will need to insure it and it gets progressively more difficult to insure a boat with age and...

I really haven't tried to post a pic to this site yet...but if you right click the image and go to properties it will give you the url.

here...I'll try it (just copy and paste the link)...also...

Reo, I checked out your link at Iboats. You really have done quite a bit of work on this boat already so I can see where you might be pretty emotionally invested in some of these answers. One thing...

Between the two I would chose the skilsaw but personally I prefer freehanding on a table saw (!safety disclaimer!). Although I have to admit my experience is with stage scenery not on lovingly...

thanks, sounds right

Unless there is other evidence such as cracks or rot I wouldn't worry excessively about the hump other than fixing the problem bunk. Wood boats are pretty flexible and actually pretty forgiving. If...

You are right, however this is why cold air satuarates out very quickly. As the temperature drops the relative humidity rises and if the temperature drops below the dew point it will result in...

I recently bought a '54 Century Viking lapstrake utility that had been painted. I was intending mostly to splash it and use it and tinker with it, was not intending to restore it. My first priority...