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This is one of my favorite buildings in the Seaport. It's a life saving station, one of many which were located at intervals along the Atlantic coast. A permanent crew would have lived here,...

Here's one that Tracey took in the upstairs of the boat shop. I'm seeing some cordage, a few molds and a couple of models, stuff that everybody here likes...

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Very cool, Emily. If you find any more pictures I'd love to see them. Nice project, thanks!

If it had damage to only one side it might have been a dredge boat. Hand tonging doesn't damage the topsides unless you're really clumsy That said, it might have had a lot of additions over the...

If that's a royal Lowell boat, Emily, it was probably built in Maine. From the look of the boat in the link it's a dredge boat, used by companies with private bay bottom. On one side would have...

Is there a crab pot on the end of that chain?

Scribble away, Dadbod.

Have you got a picture of it, Emily? It's too bad you couldn't make it but we did enjoy your posts on the various threads.

...and Long Island, we driv 'im all over.






It's true, you do need to keep up.

New Tacoma?

Manual or automatic?

Never crossed my mind, Chippie.

Anyone I know?

They would let me do that, Craig? The wee catboat? At Mystic? Alrighty then, a coupla years. We all wish you could have joined in the festivities, Craig. There's always next year.


Here's...

Thanks for the great post, Steven, we're so glad you guys could make it. I'm especially glad you have a shot of the conversation in the cockpit on Monday night, it's the first time a group of...

Did you ever wonder how lead flashing is made?



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxywudfRvTE

Here ya go, Chippie. This is one machine in use, There's probably others




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glY2wULF7KU

Youtube has a lot of fascinating production machines, as well as...

That's really kind of you, Rob. Tracey and I enjoyed ourselves tremendously.

The EBS itself was a multi-day event, from Sunday afternoon after the boat show to Tuesday morning when most of the...

Kev, pm'd you.

We missed you, Emily, and let me just say that Paul was a fountain of good cheer throughout.

I dunno Rich, but we'd all like to see you, myself especially. Gotta be a tough choice.

It's off to the show tomorrow and I'm looking forward to seeing old friends and making new. So, just a reminder about the post boat show get-together, in case anyone's missed it and would like to...

The Ledgers will be there.

First you steam out, then you set two miles if heavy gill net. The next morning you haul those miles of net in by hand, you and your mates. Then it's back to Yarmouth where your wife guts them on...

This guy has some interesting ideas on the Mars Colony, and he's no fan of Elon Musk...




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9YdnzOf4NQ

It would have been nice seeing you again, Mickey. There's always next year!

We'll look forward to seeing you there, Cris.

I think that 7 in 10 is the theoretical maximum.

Kevin, we're all looking forward to meeting you in person!

Jim

Peter, if you go into the advanced reply there's an icon that looks like a short section of film. Pressing this icon opens a box with a space in which to paste the Youtube address. Then the video...

I'm sure they're grateful for that, Chippie, your explanation was concise and to the point, and if nothing else it saved them the time of wading through mine.

Lemme tell ya, Craig, it's just like every day's Sunday.

We're counting on that.

We are having a handful of Forumites over after the Mystic Show. The itinerary is that individuals will be trickling in here on Sunday afternoon, the 26th, and staying the night. Here in this case...

It turns out that that might not be such a good thing, Jake.

Have a good one, Paul!

Jim

Well thanks, Chippie, it's all clear now.

I'm like a blind man in a dark room sometimes, just feeling my way along.

Jim

Let me explain just how I ended up measuring the thickness of shavings with a digital caliper.

Here's the problem...carvel planking, you scribe a plank to the one either above or below it, take...

Nah, Chippie, I bit my lip and didn't cry, as I was taught.:d

Truth be told it was numb. Pulling it out with pliers was a bit sharp, though.

Jim

Perhaps, Mush, but maybe one day you'd walk down to the beach and see your sweet boat floating on a mooring and all of a sudden you'd see her as others do.

Yeah, nah, Chippie, I was just trying to get away from the Japanese shavings thing and back to some relevant boat talk. But you were right bringing it over to this thread if you want to explore the...

There's a tendency, when making a mast, to let ones hands slide along the mast while walking from one end to the other. Don't do this, especially if it's a Douglas fir mast.
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I enjoy pushing a plane, Chippie, although I do have to stop more frequently now than I used to.:d


I'll explain what I was up to in a while, it's not as ridiculous as it may seem. Right now,...

With all due respect to MushCreek, I think that there is some relevance here. What's in question is the early stages of setting up molds, transom, keel and stem. After that the plans are less...

Yeah, Nick, and who actually looks at that stuff, hanging on grandma's wall.:d

Let's get back to some cool boats.

How precious is that, then!!!:d


Calendars for the gift shop?

Doug fir is just a splintery wood. Can you take light passes and climb cut? Both of these methods will reduce splintering but might not eliminate it completely.

What does a BM router bit look...

That's just making shavings for their own sake, Nick, a rather pointless endeavor, useful only for exhibition.

There's an apparent obsession among tool aficionado's with the micro-thin shaving. ...

Well, not so much the individual shaving, Jake, but, say a stack of three so it averages out. Turns out a three thousandth shaving is pretty coarse, depending on your definition of coarse, of course.

That's a good one, Chippie.:D


But to that point, Chippie, there was a day last winter when I was doing just that, adjusting a plane while measuring the thickness of the shaving with a digital...

Happy Birthday, Thad!