Time, apparently, is a somewhat elusive concept where work and boats are concerned… The other day someone was telling me about a guy who’d taken 12 years to build a boat. As it happens, I built the same boat and it took me six months of work spread out over a year. So, the question …
Just one of the reasons I’m a huge fan of Atom Voyages…
I’ve got a couple of pieces of wood that have been sitting out in the open for the last couple of years as sort of a “when-will-this-stuff-rot/fall-apart” test. Now, I’ll admit it’s not a serious scientific test and more a simple bit of satisfying my curiosity but it has been enlightening. The wood in question …
Why your local lumber yard might be your first stop… Read More »
It’s almost always easier to build rather than repair…
WoodenBoat has an excellent article online by Reuel Parker (of The New Cold-Molding Boatbuilding fame) about an interesting way to build a mast… Really a must read.
I take stuff for granted and, I suspect, so do you. Which can be problematic if you happen to live in interesting times… For instance, just a few years back the simple act of hauling your boat for a week or so to do some work and bottom paint was simple. All you had to …
So, you’ve been looking at the Michalak scow Boxtop and saying to yourself “I could knock one of those together in a hurry for not a lot of money…” So what would it cost to build? Well for starters, you’re looking at around 50-sheets of 1/2″ plywood which, if you go marine, is a chunk …
I went shopping the other day and with just about everything I popped in my basket I felt a certain “I’m-sure-the-price-on-this-has-gone-up” twinge. It’s getting a lot more expensive these days and if canned tuna goes up you have to know that so are boats and boat related products. Seriously, have you looked at what good …
How long does it take to build a box? Well, to be truthful, it all depends but with any sort of work ethic not all that long which is why square boats tend to be attractive to some people… T26X7 Slacktide They’re simple, easy to get your head around, and most importantly, people feel they …
