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Waiter! Bring me a dozen Camel's Asses! I mean Whalers.

No dice. Sassafras, white oak or locust, in your area.

Really nice. I feel like I am finally, after nearly 9 months, getting the gaff rigs on my boat organized enough for efficient in and out at the boat ramp. I finally did away with Herreshoff's...

The soul craves beauty.

updates?

I just found Alone In The Caribbean on electronic library. The book had been out of print and if you found one, high dollar--like $80 or more. Now it seems available for around $25 by a couple of...

I've found that rowing to dead to windward in my Coquina is a very unique experience, under mizzen alone. The boat is really effected, lightens and seems to fly along. It is a dog to row in a...

Regarding the alternate rigging, do you guys think that the sloop rig would drive to windward better?

Thank you, as always, James and Yeadon.

Great job! A real challenge, that hull.

I like your mast shaping tool Jim. You do incredible work.

What is the website? I would like to be a member of the group. It isn't going to be soon, but I am going to build some version of the Haven 12.5, and the lapstrake is a candidate.

Agreed. I would like to see more pics of both boats--well, all four counting Eddie's. I was at the Arques School docks today (I like to look at Black Cat, docked there, growing algae) and I saw the...

I didn't make it to the marina. Nothing to report. Weather was stunning, mostly.

This "joinery" hides moisture proof particle board, which needs no sealant at all to survive rain and snow:http://i.imgur.com/W4u9917.jpg

IT's OK. He studied shed building under this guy, before he started this "boat":http://i.imgur.com/sgy81V6h.jpg

I just read the sailing anarchy post. I am seriously thinking about driving by Loch Lemond tomorrow. I'm all for anyone building a wooden boat. That AIN'T a wooden boat.

I'm going to be out there tomorrow, off the Sausalito public launch. I'll listen for sirens and helicopters. We'll be in double paddle canoes if we don't get blown too far out. The net says around...

Thanks for the post, Jim. It looks quite a bit smaller than its sister, which I think is slightly over 18' (Roger, correct me if I am wrong), compared to 16'8". Coquina is right at 16'6", IIRC, for...

The Northeaster Dory will be much more of an allrounder, and can sail as well. It is a stunning rowboat. I suspect it has acquired the virtues of the CHamberlain (sp?) gunning dory, which Gardner...

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I've been on every section from Jim's Corner to Healdsburg to Jenner. I believe there is no longer any trace of thatevent--although maybe at lowest tide at just the right moment someone might be...

Great, great, great! I like a light green boat. Please post some more photos when you get them, of being on the water.

If this isn't a thread drift, I would like to see the mount for the Coquina. I can think of an instance or two where an electric would be useful on mine. The boat is a pig as a single in a bad...

I'm hoping someone from the forum will respond with a photo or two. Thad, you may be aware that Harry is quite accessible. My father has called him a couple of times about wood choice, etc. He...

I have found my lapstrake (4mm) 13 footers to be much tougher and rock hardy than I would have ever dreamed. They are glassed inside and out, garboards only, with 4 oz. I dropped one out of the back...

While getting ready to start working on a house I just bought, I ran across my plans for the 12 ft Fiddlehead, which technically I am building, since about two years ago my father and I did the full...

Must have been teeming with fish in those days. When I used to spend part of my summers there as a teenager in the late 70s it was teemingwith fish, and the locals always said, You should have seen...

What an experience!

Awesome Possum. See you on Natoma. I love to go out and watch the crew meets/races from the waterfront.

My suggestion for you is to ask the naysayers whether they have done the actual repair themselves, and secondly, whether they have actually built a boat. There are lots of pretend boatbuilders on...

I remember being warned to stay out of Papua New Guinea, when I lived in Asia, especially on "devil's day", when, apparently, a mood of vengeance and lawlessness is either tolerated or encouraged,...

Along those lines...

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it's worth it for the painted wheels

Congratulations. Great paint job. Wow.

Look at the typos in that post! I hate this computer. It's an ASUS and you have to pound the keys to get the damn thing to work.

When Ian posts wondering about what boat he should build, I am going to recommend the HV 13. Just saying.

I have a bright Okume sheer on my whisp. It has the same issues. I varnished over the neglected and eventually the varnish will begin to darken and you'll get another season or two of overall color...

PUt them on flickr or facebook,. right click, copy, then come back to the post message box here and hit control V.

That first Bronco is the epitome of the design. All function and virtually no ornamentation. I am occasionally tempted to buy a wrangler and then I do something dumb like read COnsumer REports and...

Just out of curiosity, Tim, did the plans in pot 229 come that size or is that a 1/4" loft that you did pior to build? Thosre are good sized plans if in fact they came from Reul that way.

Tom MOrgan's Gibson:
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I forgot about this one. About ten years ago my brother asked me for a Guild D28 copy I...

HANDS DOWN UNCONTESTED: SHE'S THE MAN, which I hvae had the fingernail-pulling, drill-bit-in-the-ear assault twice: captive on an airplane flight and the second incident not for public forum. I...

On my mother's side, Morgans back through NC , early 1700s, according to the oral history. My boy is named Thomas Morgan BRown, after my grandfather, on whose birthday I arrived. Then my brother,...

The first day I took my COquina out with both sails functonal, at Sausalito (1.5 hours each way, $100 in gas and tolls) I got out at the ramp, looked at the flags and white beards everywhere, and got...

Thanks for the photos. I wold think that NorEaster Dory would be a perfect boat in that race. Good looking Phoenix III. Were you two men in that one? Did it feel small, if so? I like the looks...

I think Southerners like skiffs and sharpies because of familiarity of use. I spent more time (in FL, GA, SC and TN) in a rowing skiff whne I was a boy than I did on a bicycle. I didn't really have...

Through the top? If it is on a plate area between frames (obviously the frames are inside) it might be an easy patch that will only be noticeable through some real scrutiny. The worst event I have...

The man the myth the legend

Will the permit ogres come at you at time of building, or is it an issue related to finance at time of sale? I'd build the damn thing and make it so that it is not permanent. In fact, I think I...