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If they have a Willamette (rhymes with damnit) heritage, I'd be interested in building one as well. It'd be nice to have a little bit of home up here in sunny Spokane.

That picture looks like...

I've had mine out in up to 3 foot wind waves, and I'd rather she had a flat bottom personally. Super stable under foot, and there's 2 ways to deal with pounding:

1) Slow down, you'll get there, no...

The 16 is a huge little boat, so I could see building the 20 only if you were going to be carrying bigger payloads of humans or needed LOTS of space.

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Just a little tidbit;

The 20%-30# hp reduction is for outboard pumps (water has to come into the foot, spin around the volute, and out the nozzle).

Rated hp is applied much more efficiently by...

I can tell you (being the "guy" that Spira says he designed the Tillamook for) that the PC dory shape isn't ideal for some uses, as they get the nickname "slam-bang" skiffs in a chop for a reason....

Pick up the plans for the Lumberyard Skiff from Old Wharf Dory. It's a great pickup truck of a boat, simple build, rugged, and reliable.

http://oldwharf.com/ow_workskiffs.html

Mine's a beast,...

Roseburg Lumber produces MDO on 1/4 ply

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Would anyone be able to comment on the T-top as it sits being strong enough? I'm getting ready to build a console into a boat, and have been trying to figure out how I'm going to do my T-top without...

Tons of Atkin, some Westie Farmer, there's lots of boats in that size range for low power and the 8-12 kt range.

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Pro-Set is a house brand of WEST. It's good stuff, just doesn't have as high of physical properties as WEST. Depending on what you're going to do, it's probably going to work just fine. They produce...

Tad Roberts sketched it, and it's designed for plywood, so I'd say it's going to go together just fine. He's pretty handy with a pencil and has a rather long track record.

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Some days I wonder how you aren't insanely wealthy Tad...

You're a dream merchant when you put photos like that up. I'd just about push my 23 foot Uniflite project aside to build that snazzy...

Use the link next to each photo that has the tag attached to it. Just click it, copy and paste to the reply box here.
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I'm here in Spokane and even more isolated, I know how you feel. If a regular schedule gets developed, let me know, I'd stop by.

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All I can say is variable load. For example, leaving with 400lbs of ice and coming back with 600lbs of tuna tends to make the tabs convenient in asking the boat nicely to plane when it might...

Tad I'd sure like to talk more about interceptors in the semi-displacement speed ranges of small craft (12-20 kts), but not sure if this thread is the place or should a new one get started?

Mainly...

If you've identified that they're really bed bugs, great.

In our neck of the woods, it's generally Hobo Spiders that provide the bites in outdoor places with bedding around. Just a thought to...

I now have two of them, the one you see there is still around for butchery and bludgeoning, another like it is for indelicate work on ply, and I have a much nicer dozuki saw for cutting things that...

Yup, mine is the LYSS, decided to have the extra rocker as it gives me the ability to be very heavily loaded and still easily beach. I think that it'd be just as good of a boat with her bow down a...

I'll be anxiously awaiting your upcoming posts and info Carl. I think that'd really be a great boat for inland waters as well, especially where we are in an area of large lakes.

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Ninigret can be built self bailing, but it isn't as-designed.

She's efficient at low power (I can't get the damn thing to trolling speeds for trout at idle), and tolerates being overpowered to a...

J, it'd be a ton of extra work v. building her as designed and hanging an outboard. Plus you lose the beachability, shallow draft, and uncluttered interior. I'm with some of the others, if you want a...

If you go the Tolman route, build the Widebody. It is far better for holding a little cabin than a standard.

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I have had it out in a solid 2 feet, and it just bobs along like there's nothing major afoot, bearing in mind I'm not on a plane. It's plenty seaworthy for a sensible seaman that knows when to pull...

Why don't you hop in the car, drive over the hill, and come take my Lumberyard Skiff out for a spin so you can honestly feel and drive the boat. I like it, it suits your needs, and since you're not...

Nope. Not something that I wanted to add because it eats up space that I need, and it's used as a work boat, not a pleasure craft, nor was it built from a production facility that has those...

Had her Volvo counterpart in Tailgunner, it was remarkable how big of a load we could put on the boat and she'd just keep going. The torque output of that motor is remarkable.

It's gonna make...

Thanks guys!

Nice work ChrisBen. I couldn't find an image of one anywhere. Wish I could get more info on the boat itself (LOA, beam, etc).

Planning on planting that rig in a SummerBreeze,...

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Hey all, I bought this 60ish sq ft sail a year ago on CL for $50 with mast, boom, crap halyard, a daggerboard, and a rudder. Sadly the schmoe that was selling it didn't know what the boat was that it...

Cleared my cache the other day, and nada.

Just logged out and logged back in, good to go!

Thanks all.

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I keep getting this error:



I can't hardly read anything, have to switch browsers to make the forum work.

Thanks

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Ran 25 all day today with 600lbs of human in the boat. It wasn't an issue, even on big boat wakes.

Good seamanship is the key.

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They're in all 50 states, and as I've come to expect, of a very good humor.

No USCG group on the Oregon or Washington coastline has had issue with tribute boats, including Bartenders painted as...

Meh, you're in Kansas, I wouldn't sweat it.

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Ease up boys, his isn't the only one:

http://www.berkeley-engineering.com/images/MohicanFinalForWebsite.jpg

I think I'd leave it as it is, then cruise on over to the nearest USCG station and...

I can get my LYS to trip, but it takes a steep powerboat wake (like those monsters coming off wake surfing boats) that's over 18" tall, and I have to hit it hard, moving really fast, at just the...

Glass over MDO is just a waste of MDO. If you're going to glass, get regular ply and cover it with glass.



Condescending, but my point is that the '60s vintage boats I've worked on (in my not...

Don't waste epoxy on MDO. Coating the paper with epoxy is just throwing away epoxy, all it needs is primer and paint.

The primer does a good job of filling the paper up rather than going directly...

I have done as much as physically possible to maim, destroy, and otherwise damage my LYS made out of MDO. I used it on everything, even getting 1 sided MDO for the transom and laminating the wood...

I'd say it might be a knock-off of one with no splashboard, and a pancake-flat bottom.

Ironically, she's decided that she isn't too interested in remaining in one piece. Yesterday the mast...

13'6" LOA

5' beam

Flat bottom, sparsely framed

Dagger board, all steel

Rudder fixed, all steel

It is roundabout 15 feet long.

The keel is warped well over an inch above the sole. The board case literally flops side to side with the flick of a wrist. I think there's a BUNCH of work, and I...

I used Pre-Kote a while back and it never hardened on the epoxy. Never use it again.

Pipefitter, the S3 high build primer is a 2 part, epoxy based, water soluble primer. Why I like the high build...

So there I was, needing a little trailer for the Lumberyard Skiff and flipping through CL for trailers, when I stumbled on the right one for the right price, holding a little sailboat off the ground....

That S3 epoxy is sweet, a bit pricey but customers like it.

The S3 primer is the only one I use, and if I can get them to bite off on the S3 LPU paint as well, it's a dream to work with.

I...

Terry, I've used Brightsides on a few of my boats over here in Spokane, and I can tell you what doesn't work, that's for sure.

I tried paint directly over epoxy, and don't recommend it. It sticks...

Don't forget the John Gardner books that talk about specific designs. They are all more of a case study type presentation (similar to the beginning of Gerr's Nature of Boats book), and are provided...

Walt Baron, the LYS designer and builder at Old Wharf Dory.

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Your chine method is sound.

Walt's method is much faster.

Idea being least hours of build is good for production work and for workboats (like mine).

Keep it up!

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