Is this too quick and dirty?

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Neat! Thanks. I’ll experiment....

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Talking of International Ten Square Metre Canoes, here’s ‘Ogaf the Unbearable”, K229 but wearing the wrong sail number, being sailed by...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Good point. But less stiff for the weight....

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

For anyone thinking of taking on one of these little jewels of wooden boatbuilding:

An Albacore rig, rudder and centreboard will fit. Indeed...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Floorboards (the battens) are out and the bottom is scraped. It may get another scrape. I’ve got a lot of 2” wide carbon fibre tape. The Plan is to...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

A close up of the area I’m worrying about; this was taken on the day that we got her back to Suffolk from Eyemouth

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[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

I love the kapok cushions and the anchor! She was owned for most of her life by Bob Tough, as in Toughs of Teddington, boatbuilder to the Queen, Trinity...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

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[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Thank you, George. You have divined my intent - to try to make tiny U channels. The centreline structure with the keel, hog and centreboard case is massively...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

The outside:

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[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

“Textbook” English boatbuilding. The inner planking is 1/16”...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Yes, that’s the idea. Considering that the only glue in the boat is the failing urea formaldehyde in the mast (to be split and re-glued) and some epoxy...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

I have a Cunning Plan: I will give the bilge area except where the carbon will go (half a dozen ribs) a few coats of Epifanes, do the carbon trick and...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

What you see here is a 1946 Uffa Fox built International Fourteen dinghy. As you see I am part way through stripping the inside prior to revarnishing....

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

I’ve done an awful lot of long distance tiller steering. Wheel is better! But there are (at least) three uses of a trim tab:
1. Hooked up to a...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Trim tabs are good. If you have a solid and substantial trim tab running the length of the rudder, as Leo will have, there is another trick that you can...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

I’m reading that Sweden is looking hard at how many Gripens it can supply to Ukraine. The plan is apparently to send some that are in service and to...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

I’m proud to say that I belong to an Organisation that is affiliated to an Undesirable Organisation! Specifically I am, and have been for donkey’s...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Korshak is back!

https://medium.com/@Stefan.Korshak/s...16-a95e2744a94...

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Ian is an Old Bold Singlehander. They do things differently and get away with it because they know their boat so well. I know this because I was one....