An interesting link…
Just maybe, catamarans don’t have to be sillly expensive… Read about it here.
Boatbuilding
Speaking of VolksCruiserish boats being built…
Here’s a guy doing it right…
Working on boats…
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 …
a great small boat…
Just one of the reasons I’m a huge fan of Atom Voyages…
Why your local lumber yard might be your first stop…
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 …
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An important point to ponder…
It’s almost always easier to build rather than repair…
A quick link…
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.
On taking stuff for granted…
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 …
Some simple addition…
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 …