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[JimConlin]

https://www.offcenterharbor.com/drea...boats-for-sale...

[JimConlin]

Certainly poly. The top of a well-used table has a hard life. I roll on the stuff that comes in quarts. Clear for the build coats and whatever for the...

[JimConlin]

I really like that and will use them. Being flat-bottomed, they’re less likely to start a split.
I see that the flush countersunk washers’...

[JimConlin]

Hold off and a better idea will come.

[JimConlin]

For reasons that don’t involve boats, I have an umbrella liability policy. I don’t know whether it would cover liabilities related to a boat of ...

[JimConlin]

Maybe it’s stuffed. Sometimes the people are, too....

[JimConlin]

Wonderful boat. I’m looking forward to more about her....

[JimConlin]

No wood?

[JimConlin]

I’m glad that there are people who’ll keep such fine boats so well....

[JimConlin]

Thanks for that, Garrett
Jim

[JimConlin]

I just looked at the pic above and understand why it works so badly. Rudder needs to be much bigger, at least 1.5 ft^2. Get other sources for this....

[JimConlin]

Sixty years ago, that was everyone’s tender. They did the job very well and had a finite life. Keep it going as you can, but look forward to building...

[JimConlin]

+1.
Russell Brown is an absolute wizard. Watch his video. All of them. The small cost of OCH will be paid back in ten minutes....

[JimConlin]

How about something skin-on-frame, like Platt Monfort’s Cricket 12?
http://gaboats.com/boats/cricket12.html
It’s light enough, long enough...

[JimConlin]

I recall someone’s opinion that a feather trailing edge is not necessary (and impractical) and that a trailing edge of practical thickness that was...

[JimConlin]

You’re overdoing it. The glass sheathing only adds a good moisture barrier over the wood and a little impeach resistance.
Give the plywood a...

[JimConlin]

I’d ask the kit supplier to replace the part. THis thread has given them some bad press. If you were to report that he’d made it good, it’d help...

[JimConlin]

I’m not sure about this inflatable business
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/shark-...a-192342085838...

[JimConlin]

Isn’t cavitation what happens when too much horsepower is applied to too small a propeller, the low pressure on the leading side of a blade is enough...

[JimConlin]

Catboats, being beamy, develop asymmetrical hull shape as they heel more and want to head up. This requires more lateral force from the rudder to maintain...