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Looks great Ron!
Looks great Ron!
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Vey pretty, a proper little ship.Comment
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Oooh! that's nice, really nice.Yeah, I know. It should be above decks but everyone seems to have fallen into the bilge, nobody topsides running the ship.
She's been out for 2-1/2 months, mostly due to weather, partly due to yard mismanagement but that's another story. She had a couple of planks replaced. Then because she had been out so long, we decided to do a little extra prep to the bottom to keep her from committing suicide on launch. We'll have several pumps standing by and hold her in the straps for a while but as it is tidal, we can't leave her in the straps overnight. I picked up the carpets.
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A lovely looking boat! Well done.Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Leonardo da Vinci.
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Lovely!Jarndyce and Jarndyce
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Thanks for the pics of your boat.
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Excellent, Congratulations!There is nothing quite as permanent as a good temporary repair.Comment
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Just lovely. Happy for you.If I use the word "God," I sure don't mean an old man in the sky who just loves the occasional goat sacrifice. - Anne Lamott
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Sheesh! Every time I see your F/V SNOOSE pics, I immediately think about how lucky she is to have found you, Ron. Good work man!
FYI: I did my first ever plank,without anyone's help whatsoever, right there where the white covered shed is. My stock was just under 20' x 17" x 2+" of beautiful AYC. I had worked with shipwrights on eight or ten other projects and thought I totally understood the whole spiling process and had utter confidence... until I was cutting my own massive pile of cash! When you are just the helper, you do what you're told. Sure, you watch and learn. But you assume they know what they're doing and just go with it. My finished plank was 17' 9" and was the shape of an S after spiling. I knew enough to trust the process, but my brain just couldn't grok it. I ended up trusting the shape enough but could help myself from adding an 1/8" all around. I couldn't bring myself to cut it for two while I wandered around coming up with other stuff to do. When I finally cut, it was perfect. Almost. It was an 1/8" proud all the way around! I planed and belt sanded it right to my line and really learned that the process ferking works! Trust the process!Comment
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Very nice Thanks.I once thought I was wrong, but I was wrong, I wasn't wrong.Comment
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One of my favorites!“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”― Mark Twain,Comment
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Swell!
A lovely little ship Ron. Thanks.Comment
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Snoose is good for the soul. The real deal.Comment
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When I'm searching through boat listings, I imagine a wood fishing boat with so much livable space, but one that has not been so overly converted to have lost all its fishing potential.
Perhaps even a smallish hold, for perhaps a couple tons of fish and ice, or slush. Of course I don't want one much over 42ft either.“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”― Mark Twain,Comment
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