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Jamie, in the matter of Ian's dare [#39]: feel free to spare us.

Well, that's how I use the block plane. I'm not good enough to get the fit right on the bench so I'm always trimming a little in situ.

But he does not mention the left handed block plane.

Actually Nick has a slightly different take than I had in mind but I've done as he describes in some places. If the thin part of the screw hole is through good wood, there really is no reason to...

Very nice porportions, reminiscent to my eye of Capt Pete Culler's "high hatted" schooners. The crossing of what amount to topmast stays makes very good sense and does not add to any problems...

Got it. Just filling holes and not joining plank to frame.

I don't like covering screws or their moral equivalent with epoxy. It'd harder than the surrounding wood and thus very hard to make a...

Well said, BrianW. Every bit as convincing as Rep. Gohmert.

Both the 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) are non-profit tax exempt and both are forbidden any more than insubstantial participation in political campaigns.

Both may keep their donors confidential, an...

A fine traditional boat well sailed. Clear to me that the weather shown was stabile and the somewhat wet, by modern standards, boat safely handled. It's all in what you're used to.

So, how'd...

Let us hope you now know the difference between a bung, in this not-a-barrel context a round plug cut across the grain and meant to cover a screw head, and a trennel. I have planted a few thousand...

On Leeward - the gunning dory - I put the board at standard down. I had rope around the gunnels for steering with cam cleats on each side handy to the center thwart on each side so I could lock the...

" . . . but uniformly not liberal, pro-abortion, non-jewish and union labor groups who applied...." [#10] happens to be flat out untrue. There were over two hundred 501(c)(4) applications...

As Chip and Eric have pointed out, my remarks about 'ferrying' were both imprecisely misleading and actually off-point. Some of this is an issue of what we're trying to do when rowing. I don't row...

Metaphysical claptrap, all this hunting or target stuff. It's nice to be good at the sport but that does not carry the day.

People, especially guys, find fine weapons intrinsicly fascinating. ...

ALL the wooden masts I know that failed for reasons other than rigging failure or rigging mal-tuning were due to rot. This happens where moisture can be held - at the compression blocks. Mya's...

Too complex. Use the ball type fenders. They won't ride up. Have a bow and stern line to keep the boats near each other and nice long bow and stern springs to keep them from moving fore and aft. ...

Eric, "ferrying" is a river term for dealing with eddies. In open water, dealing with wind is different. Yes you present less windage straight into the wind than if you are diagonally into the wind...

TransAtlantic and back non-stop sounds a tad odd, to say the least. Are you sure you're understanding him? A small gaff cuttercould be very hard pressed to make this in one season so one wonders if...

A Texas original, Bible thumping Christian con man, Estes tried to revenge himself on LBJ for that President's failure to protect him from prosecution by claiming that LBJ orchestrated a plot to kill...

That's it TomF. They are taking DNA tests from a stain on Susan Rice's slip.

It's like the sneaks that light up with every step - the very thing to help cops follow a fleeing kid.

And tell us about the design. If a standard design by known designer, those names will help. At least some pix of your plans.

Your choise of cedar heartwood is inexplicable. There are plenty...

Good graphic.

One of dogs' many gifts to us is how to face, how to live towards, loss and death. Your realization of compassion and sorrow is Fifi's lasting meaning and why you can go on, including the...

You should be well regulated by now. Get strong. G'luck.

Not a chance of the deck fitting. Really for the same reason that AirHead does not provide a solar/battery fan vent: just adds too much to the cost and too many folk make too many different choises....

Of the roughly 300 groups that the Inspector General noted got the extra attention, 202 were NOT flagged due to a conservative sounding name. The inspector general is mum about what those others...

But wait, there's more. This from The Raw Story indicates that this whole bit may be a simple as a bunch of righties being treated like everyone else. They thought they were special.

Liberal...

An interesting take:

Published on Wednesday, May 15, 2013 by The Guardian/UK

The IRS Should Do More, Not Less, Scrutinizing of Political Groups
Since Citizens United, the super rich are using...

Water resourses is a huge and rapidly growing international issue. It makes sense for up and comers from other nations to take a look at a wonder like Quabbin.

I like the board idea so much I added a side board to my $10 tender. That boat slides sideways so well that with the board up you have to allow a big arc in any rowing turn. Makes landing broadside...

Reducing windage is nice but you need some molded depth for seaworthiness if there are waves, unless you're paddeling a kayak with your spray skirt on. I found with my gunning dory Leeward that once...

You can always kneel on a plank if you really want portability.

I bought that dink for $10. Ripped off the decaying aluminum gunnel and made a nice wooden rail and new wooden transom so by investment porportion she's more wood than frozen snot.

Already a cause of resentment for package store owners anywhere near the New Hampshire boarder.

Most online sales are not such big ticket items that it matters much, but buy a boat in a sales tax...

It was incredibly tone deaf of that IRS unit but it was non-partisan. There's been such an explosion of 501(c)(4)'s for dark money and as it happens they are not by and large liberals. Still, it...

30 gpm is about tops for a short handled pump designed for mounting under a cockpit seat. the Edson will move 55 gpm and has the long handle to match. If permanently mounted it must be where you...

Just rowing Phil ashore. Then I went back to commune with Marmalade. The hatch was open until we turned back upwind from Chatham Roads to Harwich, when I closed it to keep spray out. I have the...

Well said Keith. A hotel cannot now refuse a room to a gay couple who are not married. Why should they be allowed to refuse to a couple who are (or might be) married?

I'd have to look at the boat, but 3" or so as I recall. It's standard with AirHead hose.

That was exciting enough but then we saw that almost all the moorings were not yet rigged. I grabbed the only mooring with a pennant - a nice mooring shoot if I say so myself - and discovered that...

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The wind built and I kept reefing down. By Bass River we were doing 8 knots triple reefed and as...

We shook out to just one reef in Lewis Bay, danced free of the ferries Ianough and Gay Head and off we went.
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Monday morning we sailed for Chatham and Marmalade’s Spring Spa, my friend Phil as crew. Marmalade’s engine is in Yarmouth, so we sailed off the dock. Triple reefed to put her in low power.
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Reminds me of the Hindu shennigans, except at least with Hindu there was a good guy.

The standard mushroom vent is bronze and plenty step and kick proof. Just be sure you get one big enough. Especially with the low power computer fan you want no constrictions.

Even though...

It's brilliant and we heard it first.

Thank you David. (Yeah, I know. Your parents had more to do with it but you know what we mean.)

There are stock saddles with horns, but most are without. The standard stock saddle model is a good comfort fit for the rider, almost as good as the McLellon or that late nineteenth century English...

Now we're getting at big government waste. I'm sure the Tea Party folk are on it.