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That's a nice looking boat. I especially like the baked-in electric pod, which is a very slick touch.



Thank you! I thought I had read all of the various small catboat threads. Tidbit is...

That's a great looking boat you have there, Mike. I don't love the original Bobcat, but yours is a great improvement on it.



I've looked for Dogwatch, but I can't find it on the web. I know...

While I didn't love it in the plans, she certainly looks great in the flesh. I think I would want to take out the galley and enlarge the cockpit, maybe lowering things as Alan suggested.


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Hello all!

I'm looking for plans for a particular style of catboat.



16-18' (bit of a range, yes)
Trailerable (beam under 8'6")
Large, comfortable cockpit with room to stretch out
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Does anyone have any experience with marine cork decking? What are your thoughts? I’m not installing a deck or anything, I just stumbled across the concept today. I’m intrigued!

For example:...

I have nothing valuable to offer, but I (and 649 others) enjoy watching your work! Please keep posting!

I can't help with your beech question, but I was at Liberty Hardwoods (19th & Center - what is that neighborhood, South O? Southeast O?) the other day and asked about WRC. They had some lower...

Since it's super late there, I'll give him a hand - he dropped an S.

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Hey Chris, I really enjoy your writing, and I hope you won't mind if I add a little information.

While I don't have experience in your part of the world, I spent a fair amount of time hailing...

To piggyback Boats here, larger vessels are often less maneuverable and definitely take longer to stop - measured in miles for some of the really big boys out there. Being able to pick them on radar...

You can always run off a page on A1 and check the scale to see if it's correct. Regular 20# paper should only cost a few bucks.

If you don't have a good printer nearby, I used Blueprints Printing...

A word of caution - some of the local loggers working on groves of black walnut here in Iowa have been known to help themselves to many extra trees in excess of what the property owner authorized and...

We're going to need to see some pics for that one!

The venerable Bob Smalser posted some good info here, here, and here on our forum some years back.

Derek Cohen in Perth posted his method here, a combination of stones, a grinder jig, and more...

Don't forget the Flinders bar on the big steel ships, which compensates for inherent vertical magnetism. Unless you're on my first ship, where it was inexplicably missing.

Another post or two and that's about it for the Marine's Museum. In fact, here's the last boat (that I took pictures of, anyway) from the ISCC:
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Let’s check out a couple sides and sterns this evening.

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To me, the Sperwer is one of the coolest boats in the...

I think I saw this the other day. Very impressed. Those gents are giving their freeboard a run for its money.



Nice looking little boats, though

The collection continues with tonight's installment:

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The Seaflash, a 1956 runabout from Aristocraft in Georgia.
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It's definitely straight, but it sure looks curved! Mostly because I took a panoramic photo to get the whole thing in the frame. I was wondering if anyone would notice.



Just your average 38'...

Thanks, rbgarr! On that note, here’s some more Dilemma.

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Yesterday, I had the pleasure to walk through the Mariner's Museum in Newport News, Virginia. If you're not familiar with it, it was designated as the National Maritime Museum by Congress, and is one...

Those are gorgeous and wildly beyond my price range.

A few years back, Popular Woodworking did an article on how to make the Bridge City try square. They've obviously come quite a ways in design...