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Yes, a good friend of mine did build one, but now I am living in Pa. It is fast, and I think the sprit rig is handy.

However, Tom Jones does not go crazy with the details in his plans. If I wasn't...

Many, many old Jersey boats were planked cedar on oak, with a ply deck, and by no means were they just the small ones. I had a 37' Egg harbor that was essentially done that way.

As far as fixing...

I was thinker more along the lines of clinker cedar on oak.

I want something with sweet overhangs, maybe a round transom.

does anyone know of a set of lines for a 18 to 20 foot launch, built of traditional cedar on oak?

I am looking for a small fishing boat to utilize a small 5 hp diesel I found for sale.

no more...

I don't know, when I see the purple glue line, I see it as a mark of quality.

-Thad

I have some of my underwater seams compounded with a mixture of concrete and roofing tar, a la George Beuhler (god bless him!).

He has got a collection of ideas that have been gathered from the...

Igot my bronze thimbles from classic marine.

They took about 2 weeks to get here.

-Thad

Igot my bronze thimbles from classic marine.

They took about 2 weeks to get here.

-Thad

Igot my bronze thimbles from classic marine.

They took about 2 weeks to get here.

-Thad

Bolger's tortoise.

I just threw one together for a friend in 2 evenings.

-Thad

It looks amazingly like a chris craft dory....

I was thinking of using this on my heart pine mast.

anyone ever do this?

-Thad

hmmm, was it the baby snake that tried to craws across the rudder I was epoxifying on the ground, and became a fossil...

I have gotten plantation teak from pallets, hondoran maoghany (with knots?) from pallets, as well as assorted indonesian wierd hardwoods.

locally the are all made of red and white oak, ash,...

In my boatbuilding classes (of which I only spend 3 hours on lofting...) I recommend for the complete novice Geoge Beuhler's boatbuilding book.
After that is read, Steward's, McIntosh's, and...

The hull is pretty tight...she has been in the water since last August.
I tried to flip over the front engine mount mounts on the engine, and unfortuneately I can only flip over the back ones...the...

I thought Cape cod shipbuilding had the exclusive on the Herreshoffe 12 1/2's...

What company out there is making them?

Northern is more resistant to splitting. Personally, I Use atlantic white 99% of the time because I buy it locally for $1.20 a BF.

I would use local northern white cedar, It grows up by you, you can buy it at a mom and pop sawmill, and pick through the piles.

It's better planking wood, anyway.

-Thad

hmmm.... in 1958 my parents were in grade school...

I myself wasn't bornfor another 19 years...

43 days... Hope you are all still in!

-Thad

Oh my god! I knew I wasn't drinking enough, I can flip over that front plate thing!!!!!

My friend built a Dobler 16 and we sail it all the time. Tom Jones lives down the street in Tuckahoe, he's a great guy, but his plans don't show a lot of rigging detail.

What I did to my friend's...

Have any of you installed a new engine, and had it so far off that it takes days to get the thing even close?

my new engine is as far south as the mounts will allow (in the frount), and it is...

NICE elbow!!!!!

I'd like to have one of them...

mine was supposeably rebuilt recently...

It had tredendous compression untill the head gasket went. I couldn't hand crank it without the compression release at all. after the head gasket went, I...

By the way, Moray at Classic Marine has those bronze thimbles...I have several on my cutter they are very yarr!!!!

-Thad

Sorry, But I am leaving in 4 weeks for 7 or 8 weeks on the Chesapeake.. It's the reward for being a teacher, you know!!!!!
;)

-Thad

Thank you guys for the help. I just ordered a head gasket from Torresson Marine. Hopefully it will be here in a few days.

I did check out the head and cylinder and did not see or feel any cracks....

I have a 1978 YSM-12. It's a horizontal single cylinder yanmar.

I blew the head gasket, and removed it already, clearly it had been going for a while.

But, here is the issue. There was grey...

Steven, my shop is 7 miles from OC and my boat is 1 mile from OC. but I will be out cruising for all of july.

Mark,
I would appreciate that greatly...very greatly!!!!

I can be reached at...

Thank you. :D

Any of you know if this cool business in Trenton New Jersey is still in business?

I want a bronze starfish for the end of my bowsprit and boom, and some neat samson post covers, but can't find...

There is a whole fleet of 110's at the Ocean City Yacht club, and some one told me that there is a few 210's racing.

I had heard that there was a series of these boats built going upwards in...

Have any of you used Kirby's red copper?

I was thinking about it, but I don't know how it works.

-Thad

the douglas fir on the Bahama Mama doesn't seem as though it would have very large loads on it. But, oak is available for $1 a board foot around here, and ash isn't much more...If you know where to...

the douglas fir on the Bahama Mama doesn't seem as though it would have very large loads on it.

I decide to use a large windsurfer sail set upside down as a topsail. do any of you know how long those sails last? It is purple, pink, clear, and yellow dacron/mylar.

-Thad

OK, some specifics as to how I'd do her cheap.

Instead of doug fir (which goes for about $9 a BF around here, I would use atlantic white cedar, which goes for less than a dollar a board foot.
...

I just bought a fynspray pump for my saltwater. Has anyone used on for that?
-THad

I just bought a fynspray pump for my saltwater. Has anyone used on for that?
-THad

I just bought a fynspray pump for my saltwater. Has anyone used on for that?
-THad

Fort Lee, ehh?

down here around Ocean City, many of the boatyard guys don't know the difference between a yellow brass screw and a silicon bronze screw.

Even the ones that somehow learned to...

Ahhh, It's not just on this side of the pond!!!!!

personally, I like getting near plastic boats that have no rubrail with my boat that features a large , roughed up rubrail, and pointy round...

My boat sounds a lot like a quay punt...
I have been trying to find out what my cutter is.

all I know is that she was built in 1923. she has very little mast above the gaff jaws, but she has a...

Other than the vertical staving, I have seen some old work boats with the "bread and butter" sterns.

They were pretty much blocks of 4 by 8's, maybe 1 foot long, drifted and bolted to each other....

I did a sharpie with an eliptical transom once.
I made upper and lower frames, and planked the trnsom up like a barrel. I had to use pretty thick planking stock, though, because those planks...

when I used to show at the wooden boat shows, Gary used to always stay on his meadowbird. When he guest lectures for my boatbuilding classes, he does a slide show on the construction of it.

That...

I am actually using a prism from ABI. bronze rectangular frame, and an acryllic prism....

If the acryllic sucks, it is the same size as the one sold through classic marine, soI could just switch...

Ishmael,
I could be slightly one sided on this, but Gary, the guy you bought the plans from, is a good friend of mine. He sometimes guest lectures in my boatbuilding classes.

we have discussed...