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chris craft continental maybe?

Oh, and I forgot to mention. The steps are more important than access to storage spaces any day. Ease and safety getting up and down trumps having to fiddle around a bit to get in a locker.

Here is the last set of stairs I made.

http://www.flaniganbros.com/Projects/images/john%20c%20(1040).JPG

See how the pitch of the two legs are different? It makes for an interesting build.
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Sometimes I get frustrated with my shop because its so crowded, the whole boatyard sits on 5/8 of an acre including the railway, and the shop is only 60 feet long. Now that there is a boat inside...

my shop...

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I use a router and a normal carbide roundover bit to round the edges of bronze, brass, and Aluminum all the time. In fact I was rounding over some just this past week. Of course, I also cut pieces...

Thanks.

I have been lurking, but too busy to do more than scan through threads. I had no problems during Sandy, but a lot of people around us and a lot of our customers had problems. Also my...

The owner wants to put a centerboard back in her. I am not sure it can even be done at this point. The old centerboard well was capped on the outside(sort of a common thing for oyster schooners...

Having used and removed just about every type of screw imaginable I personally prefer slotted wood screws. Its just a personal preference though, I find I can drive them without messing up any of...

I do that when I only have a couple spikes to drive. Anymore though, if I have a bunch I use a giant air hammer with a special end I made that is hollowed out a bit so it doesn't slide off the...

at my location sandy did more damage to houses and property than to boats. My sister lives on Mystic Island Little egg harbor and she lost both houses on her property as well as two cars and a jet...

I carry nothing but a pencil. Working on a yacht with stuff hanging off you ends up scratching stuff.

If I am working on something like planking where I am outside the boat all the time I have a...

I just reread what you wrote last.

Stick a pulley hanging from the center of that there gantry you built, slap a strap through it and all the way around the boat and back again and then get rid of...

The nylon strap is supposed to go from a pulley above the centerline over one side, down below the boat and back up the other side to the pulley. Then the boat just rolls in the strap as the strap...

Beautiful. It makes me wish I was currently involved in a wooden boat restoration instead of an aluminum Burger.

I put anything with an outboard motor under the heading small. Course I hate working on outboards and tell anyone who comes in my shop wanting work done on a boat with an outboard that I don't work...

I don't have a problem with it. I actually like the Pettit better than slick seam. Slick seam just seems so dang messy to me.

Just a couple quick questions.

Are you keeping your planking stock covered up? The sun will cause it to check quite badly. Also, something I have found to stop checking is coating stock with a...

I have tons, I pick them up any time I see them, but extremely large phillips were never made, and the widest brace bit for slotted I have seen is still less than 1/2" wide.

Nice work. I have always been partial to the looks of a curved bench with vertical joints under it.

You used a quite funny saying up a bit, "rusted screws held in place by memory".
I submit mine...

Maybe I will just weld an adapter to a cut off brace bit....

Oh, I want one!

Thanks for the idea, I am going to make a couple. There is nothing worse than trying to get a stubborn screw out when you can't use a brace.

How stiff is it? Do you have...

One tip for the anchor pulpit. If you are going to sit at anchor with the chain running over the pulley you might want to do two more things.

1. The aft fasteners in the pulpit should be bolts....

I know. I just bought myself a bottle of Johnny Walker Blue to celebrate not killing my family while on a cruise. That was 200$ My Favorite right now is Balvenie DoubleWood 12 Year Old Single Malt...

did you buy it yourself? I am constantly buying myself scotch to celebrate this and that. I don't need much of an excuse.

That's what I thought it was. I just polished off a bottle a couple weeks ago.

What is in that bottle?

Sharp bit and some wd-40. I also like to lightly touch the edge of the drill bit to the grinder so that it won't grab. Its hard to explain, but if you hold the drill bit in line with the grinding...

Raising the blade shouldn't be a problem. You start with the blade low and cut all your panels at the same time, then raise it, then cut them all again, then raise it. If your saw can be fitted...

You might find that cutting panels in that manner is a bit easier if you angle the piece to the blade. I also normally cut with the work on the other side of the blade. That way the blade doesn't...

There are large holes in the bottom so no.

Those pics were from the last two years I believe...

Current ones or older ones?

Oh, by the way, I'm the railway in Fairton, NJ.

Pt-3 is just sitting in the front of our yard. Its a shame. Currently we are trying to get the owner to remove it from our yard or sell it to someone who actually wants to work on it.

Plan b

What application?

Its been used in boatbuilding.

A better way would be to fasten the router to the arch and slide the arches fore and aft, this would result in a long cut instead of short ones that change depth constantly. Your jig would need a...

No rings, no gasket set from the local dealer, they said I can probably get them from someone online which I already knew, but I like to buy local first if I can.

Now for the bad news.

I took...

Bad news, only 20 lbs of compression. So far I have purchased a rebuild kit for the carb, and found a place I think has the piston rings, I will know on Monday. I think the head gasket is obsolete...

Are you going to caulk the garboard seam with cotton?

For future reference, something we do when we take an engine out and relaunch the boat is put 55 gallon drums of water in its place. Especially if its a twin engine boat and we only take one out.
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Oh, I picked it up with a rope tackle, made entirely out of rope. No pulleys, that would be too easy. I used what we call here a hay or farmers knot. Mostly used to pull rope tight over bales of...

I am not sure whether I am going to build it right side up, upside down, or on a frame I can spin in any direction. I have a welder and plenty of steel, so I was thinking about making a frame so I...

Oh, its not going to be a yard boat, we don't really need one.

It going to be traditional. I own a boatyard and our specialty is working on old wooden oyster boats. So I pretty much have an unlimited supply of mahogany both Philippine and Honduras, white cedar...

I found the plans here. http://www.by-the-sea.com/bakerboatworks/pdf/yawlboat&alaunch.pdf

This is the engine I have.
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Mark it careful and hew to the line.


Just kidding, that's what my grandpop always said when I asked how to fit something. I usually make a pattern for closing planks. Are you going to put the...

I really enjoyed your flash gallery. Working in that area requires an incredible amount of fiddling around doesn't it?

I use Pressure treated for posts and deck beams. That is all. We air dry it for at least a year if we can. For ribs and frames we use something harder, usually Jersey white oak, or mahogany.