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Looks promising,I hope we see some reports from the R&D programme.

Please let us know if you have a video crew lined up the next time you race your 505 in a gale.It would be nice to have the opportunity to see the techniques you find effective in such conditions.

These planed:
http://www.puntclub.co.uk/history/limelight.jpg

In fact a chap called Stewart Morris sailed one before moving on to more widely sailed classes.Even before the adoption of a trapeze...

Surely in the literal sense the toilers in the political sphere are the servants,selected by those who vote for them.

I would suggest that the best answer to the original question is that nobody currently builds significant numbers of wooden boats for offshore cruising.In the past a good number of builders had their...

That amount of money could buy a much better car without a Hollywood connection.

If I find myself in the neighbourhood I will have to give the collection a look.The list of car museums to visit is extensive and will require a lot of time and travel.

It certainly doesn't look like even spacing.It would only cost your time to spend a few minutes with a rule to eliminate one area of possible doubt.Did you run a fairing batten over the moulds before...

Never heard of the man and have no idea who he is or what he stands for.I will continue to use my tools in the way that I see fit and leave him to do the same.

The vertical strips will be a better choice than plywood.The small possibility of flexing can be eliminated by applying a very light glass sheathing,but even a plain rudder with no sheathing will be...

I think a more comprehensive description would help us to visualise the concept you have in mind.Better yet,a sketch.

They arrived before the DTM,be interesting to see which does best.

Some good suggestions already.I think AC/DC have a good claim but unlike earlier posters I would choose Thunderstruck.
I might also have gone for Bruce Springsteen with either Born to Run or ...

I would have described it as a so-so race,with a few entertaining moments.It looks like the guys from Enstone understand a bit more about getting performance from the Pirellis for a lengthy stint...

This will be my final post on this thread.A pivot below the boom will work if enough attention is paid to the engineering.A pivot above the boom is a bad idea that is unlikely to work and somebody...

The world is full of used boats and in the current financial situation they can be bought for much less than they would cost to build.Why not just buy one and get some experience?

Best of luck with the refit.I hope we soon see news of a transition to a greatly improved state.A piece of trivia;the replacement hip was invented a couple of miles up the road.

Revolution" [/B], the documentary on Global Warming and Ocean Acidification, I recently reported on.

In the past I justified F1 for the innovations it gave rise to that advance the cars people...

Stopped by rain?In a few weeks the world's best and biggest race takes place and they just deal with rain.Sort of obvious that I am not referring to the Brickyard I suppose.

I do enjoy reading these partisan threads and I usually gain a bit of an insight into using a different operating system.It seems so much simpler to type apt-get update and hit the enter key.Costs...

The Portsmough Yardstick for Merlins has been a bit contentious for a while.Due to the nature of the scheme the performance of the more recent boats with carbon spars and laminate sails has not been...

I have done this sort of thing with a D shaped false base on the bottom of the router.It helped to leave the blank well oversize to allow enough wood to hold it in a vice.The other edges were dealt...

I could try to sugar the pill but really its not a good idea.Something will break and probably quite quickly;in addition you will find it nearly impossible to hoist the mainsail.Earlier in the thread...

I own one that looks just like this:
http://www.srtools.co.uk/sip/resources/wet-n-dry-grinder.gif

It was a freebie when I bought a very cheap lathe and lay unused in its unopened box for a couple...

I don't know if the brewer came here for inspiration:

http://snowdomes.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/11_10_01-old-farts.jpg

I am similarly being nudged into "upgrading" my account,like Nick I am connected via BT to Yahoo.When I checked their site it seems that there is really no need to do so as I use Thunderbird to...

I would be entirely happy to use multiple layers of veneer rather than a single layer of 1/4 inch strips.The varying grain directions will definitely help to resist puncturing.If you have rocks to...

Best of luck with the build.You will have a very lively boat when you get it sailing and I hope we will be allowed to see more of the build process here.

I disagree;prior to carbon most postwar International 14's were cold moulded and none that i know of were glass sheathed.Some of those built by Souter or McCutcheon had longitudinal outer veneers and...

I live reasonably close to two offshore windfarms-Scroby Sands and Sheringham Shoal-neither of which are audible from the shore.I have a suspicion that their greatest long term benefit will be that...

Its the day when some of our local morris dancers go out and do their stuff at dawn.

The hull looks much fairer now-nice work.It might help Jay and some of the other contributors to this thread to watch this video of similar boats in action.
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I'm sitting about fifteen feet from one of these:
http://www.imcdb.org/i203220.jpg
Only two wheel drive and it needs finishing.I need to finish it or give it away to somebody who will finish it.I...

I have seen those elsewhere and they look like a lot of fun for all involved.I have wondered whether the inspiration for the roadster came from the pre-war Napier-Railton....

I have never yet seen a slotted wooden tiller,so the cleat would go on the bottom.I have used a metal rudder stock-marketed by Rondar-with a tubular tiller,which allows you to locate the cleat...

Every cleat I have seen has been screwed to the tiller when an all rope downhaul has been used.I have also seen a hybrid system where the rope exited the rudder stock and joined to a length of shock...

All very familiar!The rope downhaul alternative takes a bit more work at the construction stage,but isa bit more positive in use.A scheme such as this will work (other part of rudder stock omitted...

Prepare to be ignored!For years I have been beating the drum about using shock cord or a length of rope and a Clamcleat CL257.Those of us in Britain will have seen tens of thousands of...

I wish Bruce Kirby evey success in this matter.ISAF should be on his side,as should the courts,in due course.I had heard rumours of varying quality and speed according to which factory the boats were...

At the risk of appearing pedantic,the result of the test programme will be an indication of the way that fuel is used in your boat,with your sterngear and the amount of fouling on the bottom of your...

Is this stock movement symptomatic of a more widespread change http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/04/the-end-of-the-home-computer-why-pc-sales-are-collapsing/274899/ .How many of us...

My grandfather was a WW1 signaller and he told me about his experience of being taken up in an aircraft and having to lower a length of wire with a weight on the end to act as an aerial.I wish I...

Two nails,used as rivets,prevent the pivoting of the sides.A rectangular metal band would also work.

You might struggle to purchase red lead paint in the UK.You may be able to find red lead powder and some of the other ingredients of paint,but a friend who is an architect operating almost...

The most elegant solution I ever saw for this job looked like this:
http://i578.photobucket.com/albums/ss226/John_Meachen/Coastal%20scenes/lapcramp.jpg

You could pick them up by the handle on the...

A few that should be in this thread;1941,Waterworld and the dreadful Driven.

On this old laptop I currently have no firewall.I do have spybot and since I run Firefox,I added NoScript to keep the risk of intrusion low.

I have a benchtop mortiser on mine.The very cheap copy keeps a few paint cans off the floor.

No,missing a chine and a jib.
http://www.rtna.ac.th/english/CadetActivities/Yacht/100_1232.jpg

Since the thread is about recommendations,I would recommend not buying a bandsaw that has an unbalanced table.Too many modern bandsaws have a lot more metal between the blade and the frame than on...