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[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

I don’t like questions which start by asking me “What would you do if some young man raped your daughter?”

This is only in part because...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Why on Earth would you want Watson (still alive) and Crick? A pair of ****s of the first water. They stole Franklin’s work and set out to discredit...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

My younger son is a medical student and a member of his university’s Officer Training Unit. His chosen specialties are surgery and emergency medicine...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

A point that iirc is made in the book is that one grows used to a particular varnish and sticks to that one for as long as it is available.
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[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

I should like to thank everyone who has posted in reply to my question. In the nature of things, some say it’s too quick and dirty and others differ....

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

I listened to a programme on BBC Radio in which the hypothesis that he succeeded, lived a number of years, quietly, and then failed in a second attempt,...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Standard Uffa Fox 14 . Known history. No repairs apart from the one that I did. The things holding the two layers of planking together are turned copper...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

[QUOTE=Scary Borg Craft;n8948969]

This isn’t a Fairey hot moulded boat. Or even a cold moulded boat. She’s held together with turned...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Peter Schuyler Bruff, civil engineer, entrepreneur, yachtsman.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Bruff

And if we are having...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

[QUOTE=long time lurker;n8948671]

I did think of that, but in that case the replacement ribs would only be bonded to the inner, diagonal,...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

At some point you missed me saying that this is a reversible, temporary, fix, to get the boat sailing next summer. You also missed me saying that her...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Yes, it’s an excellent textbook....

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Boatbuilders of Scotland, form an orderly queue…...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

[QUOTE=long time lurker;n8948385]It seems to me that floor timbers of whatever sort, bent, sawn or laminated, would net the desired effect far better,...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

“Coffin board elm” aka English Elm is not the same stuff.

The ribs are Canadian Rock Elm (“CRE”) which was generally used for steamed...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Certainly the planks will have been spiled and then ripped. Given that this was series production of a dozen or more dinghies each year and that I think...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

These boats were built on a form.

If you have a copy of Uffa Fox’s “Sailing, Seamanship and Yacht Construction”, the first of his five “annuals”...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Do I spy a Fife dragon at the forward end of the cove line?

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

I’d say that’s probably OK, because there are hard points (the keel and hog, with the centreboard case and the mast step, on one side, and the (1945...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Thank you Brian. I’ve found a supplier and will get some....