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Pless - it's all good in those categories. Also - it wears like iron and resists rot quite well.

I see this thread popped up again, and it reminded me that I meant to comment on the waxing/not waxing issue.

I think maybe the wax as contaminant problems stem from what exact wax is used.
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When I get a chance - I'll upload the fotos of how the boat looks now, and the slight bit of messing with it I've done already.

Connect a cut, eh?

At least once a week, eh?

I know... I know... fire the domestic help!

Richard - do you mean his Kachemak?

http://www.spirainternational.com/hp_kach.php

I just adopted a half-finished Kachemak, and plan to complete it as I have free time this summer.

This quietly turned into a heck of a series. I'm still rooting for the Spurs... but won't quibble if it goes the other way.

I applaud every effort to build one's own boat.

Not all turn out well. And not all such efforts (let's call them 'rough drafts') should be left to stand... and provide a potential hazard to life,...

NO, Tulsy, not THAT Roy Rogers ----


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW08Rc802MQ

Yes, as I understand it - this will be the first of several that will stay moored as B&B units. No plans to make them mobile at this point. Very pretty stretch of river there. I'd stay there, if I...

Some people never learn.

Hey... it's my birthday... you, and Tulsy, and the whole mob, and all of everybody's friends... can drink all of Lefty's beer you can handle!!! <G>

I'm just hoping one of my mismatched,...

Tulsy... no supermarket produce will be as good as what you've grown your very own self, picked at the peak of perfection, and upon which your very own dog has peed!

I've been pushing it hard for...

A foto is far better than no foto - but it's still hard to tell some things. Is it fir? Could be. Are there a lot of holes from the mast track? Yup! Are they a problem? Not necessarily. Poke at them,...

Coffee sounds good.

Coffee sounds good.

There are a number of syndromes - rent-seeking behavior and the related crony capitalism among them - that are with us always to some extent... but that tend to blossom during times when the pendulum...

Man... our poor little garden looks mighty puny by comparison. It's barely warm enough to plant stuff here!

Happy Anniversary, Lefty & Pancho (oops... wrong dynamic duo - but Congrats nonetheless). Isn't it amazing how we eccentric boat-types still find beautiful women who not only put up with us... but...

Might be difficult. Palladin has passed over the bar.

I didn't get to watch... but I was rooting for the Spurs. I always root for them. Unless they're playing my Trailblazers.

I'm in the mood for a nightcap. Couple fingers of good rum ought to do the...

Yes, I've done something similar.

In general terms... weight aloft - esp. in a small boat - is to be reduced as much as possible. Because of the multiplication factors afforded by the long stick...

The mast is wood? Spruce, fir, or??? What was the original? Is your new one solid or hollow?

Does your Folkboat mast spec include a weight for the stick?

My first thought is that I'd definitely...

Not much blood. Fair amount of fish-guts & stuff.

I still prefer flickr... even after they've mucked with it.

Same difference, eh? <G>

I like the autowrap suggestion. I have a client who did his diesel dodge in camo, and it's held up to an amazing amount of backwoods abuse!

Well, that's just...

Say - have you renamed your shop "Redneck Boatworks"?

I like some of the changes flickr has instituted. Buy it really is a lot of new controls to learn - when it already worked ok for me.

OK Tulsy... I know the winds are out of the West, but you can...

My attitude has always been, "All women are beautiful, and some even more than others".

Same, same, pizza.

Coffee sounds good. And the Oysters and sourdough toast. Today's the day I deliver the adopted dory to the boat museum... setting it aside until I can get some paying work done, and two other of my...

Tulsy - I thought your fine town was hot and dry, dry, dry... except when it was hotter and drier. Are you more like Austin... hot & humid sometimes? That combo about killed me when I lived there!...

tizzie - if you've got a kid stout enough to be toting around a cow... well, I'm impressed!

Lord help us... it's true.

<and the truth shall make you... crazy!!!!!>

Yeah... that's the ticket. Try that one! <and report back>

G'morning ladies & gentlemen,

My attitude always was the the fighting just warmed ya up for the women stealing. But, these days, I've got a woman I'm happy with, and I heal up from such scrapes a...

In that size, I'd build something lik Welsford's "Tender Behind"

http://www.jwboatdesigns.co.nz/plans/tenderbehind/index.htm

I don't know enough about trading to adequately evaluate Norman's articles, nor peb's assertions. Just in general terms, though... I'd find it quite surprising if this wasn't just one more area where...

My money's on this one.

Peb - so are you saying that it's your belief that the status quo is best practice? That the big traders have NOT used political influence and other tools to game the system in their favor... and...

Thanks!

I was waiting with bated breath for your permission. Not much of a leap, though... as it was my working hypothesis based, all too often, upon your prior performance.

Oh... and you still...

Yes, as Jay reminds us, it's important to do the proper prep. Knock off any lumps. Flatten any runs/sags. Scuff with sandpaper... everywhere there'll be paint. I use 180 grit for that duty, but...

What's your budget, and what 'look' are you after? Yacht grade? Rough workboat? Somewhere in between? Where? There are a lot of possibilities. I'm not a huge fan of the 'boat soup' (pine tar, oil,...

Persiflage.

The two questions were:

First - the level of accuracy of Norman's statement:

Isn't the foundation of the financial markets the idea that it can only be a fair market if everyone...

I can't disagree with you more. I'll certainly go along with the notion that l-f capitalism is not the equivalent of crony capitalism. Two distinct bits. Historically, however the further we move...

My understanding is that his immersion in the church inspired his thoughts and power and corruption, but - as a historian - he generalized that understanding more widely. No?

Of course it's impossible, in the absolute sense.

And... I believe if you dig into the discussions around the topic of market regulation in order to curb excesses - for instance the founding of...

Joe,

Finishing is a complicated subject, and it's easy to get the details wrong. But it's hard to discuss if they are. In this case... I do not believe Brightsides is a linear polyurethate. That...

I believe the article is accurate. I also believe that it describes the normal consequences of allowing our economic system to swing too far away from the middle. In recent years, that swing has been...

Two coats of varnish should make a perfectly good primer for an oil-based paint.

Not true. You can heat the area with a heat gun, peel off glass, open up joints, replace bit and pieces, then button it back up with minimal destruction. The ring-shanks CAN be dealt with, as erster...

I've only bought black locust in the form of urban forestry-sourced street/landscape trees. It doesn't really grow here, normally. It's tended to have punky centers, but plenty of clear, straight,...

I always preach reversibility in small boats. For later repairs... epoxy alone is far more reversible than something put together with ring-shanks. If you're building rough work boats that you expect...

Showery and 65 degrees here today. I love it, except I have a half-finished boat hull sitting outside <sigh>