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i was hoping you'd somehow work in the fact that they were Cuban cigars, then we could have gotten the customs guys involved. funny, though...

why wouldn't you just attack the frames with a sawzall and a demoliton blade, after drawing the bevel or saw-kerfing the friggin' thing or however you want to mark it, and get it close and then hit...

well, my legally uninformed opinion, based largely upon hearsay with a big dose of practical experience and a basically piratical nature is this -
from what i've heard of the story, CCSB 'acquired'...

those boats have been sitting there so long, i don't even notice them anymore, though i used to covet 'shoestring' a lot the first few hundred times i saw her...

jeez, can't a poor boatbuilder get older without the whole world knowing about it? it's okay, though, because as big doug mcarthur once put it, "old boatbuilders never die, they just spile away..."...

why am i not surprised? that's the bounciest kid i ever tried to hold on to...

rp

and here's another reason i hardly waste my time checking the forum any more...
i could, easily, after setting up the molds and jigs, build a riverside dinghy in a month, finished and ready to...

roger,
it sounds like bondo, or some resinous cousin thereof. it's time consuming, but try drilling into the stuff with a small drill bit, then drive a screw into it and a)keep going until the...

i attended the landing school in 1987-88, and have been building, restoring, repairing wooden boats almost non-stop since, but i don't think many of the people who attended during that year can say...

http://trumpyboatworks.blogspot.com/
my friend sigrid trumpy is maintaining this site, which may be of interest to forumites.

rick prose

http://trumpyboatworks.blogspot.com/
even though i'm somewhat associated with this project and may be accused of self-promotion, i think it's a good little web site to checkout, nonetheless.

rick...

i bought some bits from woodworkers warehouse a few months ago in varuous sizes designed to cut plugs a couple inches long in a drill press. they're perfect for trunnels that don't need to be...

if it's just a 16' boat, can it be hauled out reasonably easily? because you're going to have to haul it out to properly fix the leak, anyway, and then you'll be able to run some water inside it and...

all this talk about addiction and googe is fine and good, but i'm confused by the initial query.
are you saying that the boat can't be carvel planked because you'd have to keep it out of the water...

beautiful, bruce, absolutely beautiful...

just as it is always cheaper to repair an old car than buy a new one, it is always cheaper to restore an old boat than to buy (or build) a new one. anyone who can show me the receipts to prove...

cleek's right but also wrong, sort of. my boat's 51 years old and filled with concrete, lead, boiler punchings and bricks, and she's not rotten yet -knock wood, cross my fingers and rub my lucky...

you could make a new mast quicker and more cheaply than applying some space-age goop and googe, at least i could, so why bother. for that matter, why bother with fiberglass at all? why not wrap the...

steve,
the purple stuff is resorcinol, which is good glue, but not worth a damn as a sealant or whatever the previous numbskull thought he was doing by pouring it on the inside of a boat.
I've...

angle both pieces and you'll usually end up with the right amount of crown, though i favor the mid-line and give it a bit more bevel.

isn't there a forum run by a magazine called "PlasticBoat," or "NylonBoat" where you guys could discuss this?

my sawyer down in bath, john morse, sometimes has really good white oak, and if you tell him what you want, he'll keep his eyes peeled for it. i can't find good cedar much anymore, but have been...

my sawyer down in bath, john morse, sometimes has really good white oak, and if you tell him what you want, he'll keep his eyes peeled for it. i can't find good cedar much anymore, but have been...

my sawyer down in bath, john morse, sometimes has really good white oak, and if you tell him what you want, he'll keep his eyes peeled for it. i can't find good cedar much anymore, but have been...

what kind of mahogany runabout is it? if it's a chris-craft or similar type, with a double planked bottom (fore and aft caulked planks over diagonal inner layer)it wasn't made to be in the water all...

ken,
arundel's a little bit of nothing set inland between kennebunkport and biddeford, with route 1 running through the middle of it. the landing school of boatbuilding is actually in arundel,...

brian and the rest of you,
a piece of plywood of any size is not the same thing as a piece of solid wood of any size, and it's unsuitable for building a boat, uncovered by something, that's going to...

thanks, fixed it! the picture of the sea urchin is on the second page, by the way, the page headed
"history."

I built one for a customer years ago, I think only the second or third one built. You can see a picture of it on my website www.finestkindboats.com and I'll answer questions off-forum if you want to...

Joel,
Most Maine lobster boats don't have them even today, so I doubt they had them then. No lobsterman in his right mind wants to spend the time it takes to paint a boot top. I've been talking my...

i just wanted to offer words of support and encouragement for all forumites who are jumping the miscellaneous ship and signing articles aboard the ss people/places, but, where are we going to go when...

l-dude, i repeat, don't put that nasty 5200 anywhere near your boat. period.
i rebuilt an old town runabout a few years ago, very similar in style and construction to yours, and there wasn't a bit...

lumberdude,
just to throw in my 2 cents - don't put 5200 anywhere near a wooden boat for any reason and don't muck up your transom with plywood. If this boat's been around a while, it's been run...

had a visit from my friend edgar reed today. edgar's nearly eighty, and a gamer, more bantam-like old bird you'd be hard-pressed to find. now, as a boatbuilder, i've been hearing from ed for a few...

ed, my friend, don't let roshi bob lead you down the garden path with that west coast zen buddhist process malarkey. women are process-oriented, which is what makes them so good at spending hours in...

chad,
you won't find a lot of "purists" on this forum, it being sponsored by a magazine that is heavily into promoting plywood boats, but, for what it's worth, it's a plywood and fiberglass boat,...

i wanna see the picture when you fire the great guns in the cathedral at night...

i've worked a saw pit, and it really takes two people to do the job, so buddy up to your friends nice and close. even with a sash type saw, it'll go better with two, because once that blade gets a...

kate, there might be something to the boat 'not taking up' legend. deks #1 is, as far as i can tell, just sealer by another name. it's really meant to be used to seal wood before you put on the #2...

once again, and i'm not at all surprised, the cleek mon sticks his neck out in an effort to point you in the true direction. it takes about fifteen minutes to learn how to sharpen a plane iron, less...

z-spar captain's varnish is the only thing i use in high latitudes. down nearer the tropic line, you'd have to be a fool to varnish anything with anything...

once again, forumites, eager to parade their erudition have muddied the waters.
what the man wants is "decent, basic hand tools," which are available for very reasonable prices at his local hardware...

john, old man,
you can dull your putty knives and round their edges all you want, but DON'T go scraping around on a perfectly good canvas deck, no matter what your intentions or what kind of...

john, my solution to the rotten hood ends, if the boat is not historically-significant, is to shorten the planks by a couple of inches. depending on how much she narrows aft, you can sometimes...

in the spring i'm gonna pay ed back for helping me out this fall, and make him a door for the shed. or find one at the dump...

ed, barbara's french and i've never gotten so much as a free croissant, never mind plywood.

thanks for all the good suggestions, mates. i found a set of the kind i was looking for through mcmaster-carr thanks to someone on the miscellaneous forum, 15 bucks for a set of six - i only ever...

thanks for all the good suggestions, mates. i found a set of the kind i was looking for through mcmaster-carr thanks to someone on the miscellaneous forum, 15 bucks for a set of six - i only ever...

thanks for all the good suggestions, mates. i found a set of the kind i was looking for through mcmaster-carr thanks to someone on the miscellaneous forum, 15 bucks for a set of six - i only ever...

help me out, shipmates! the strong young lad i had working for me in the shop last winter broke my favorite screw extractor, and i've been unable to find another like it. it was what i always...