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Without fanfare, party or any fuss at all, the
book
slid gently into the water to-night, warts and all. That
is to say I released it.
Rob
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I have just completed a home-designed and made
trailer for my Truant dinghy, photos
are here.
John Beatty |
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Here's a new development with Jim Luckett, from
SailBoatsToGo: A sophisticated, high-performance,
cartop sailing boat for 1-2 persons. You can call it a catamaran
with outriggers, or a quadramaran, but it's really a W boat with
a pair of outriggers, since the patented W concept departs from
the catamaran concept by a number of fundamental features... Yoav |
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Traditional Small
Craft Association - Member Join/Renew. Here it is,
the site to join us at the TSCA with no hassles. Just open it,
type in your stuff, pay with your credit card and wa-la, you're
officially one of us. You may not really want to be one of me
but the rest of the old boat world are OK. Dave |
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I have a few Navigator pictures up on my
blog.
Wayne |
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Last sail of the season for Navigator
Slip Jig. Here is a short clip of my last sail.
Kevin |
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Route du Rhum
Race Commentary
You can follow regular race reports on the various boats and
their skippers at this link.
Chuck |
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Boat
Kit like this? 15 story building built in.....drum
roll please....2 days? I want a boat kit by these people.....
just need to read the language to understand the directions. Ignore
the City of Austin propaganda.
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Here is an interesting blog
post on a Tamar river sailing barge. Excellent blog
in general for folks who enjoy traditional woodworking and related
subjects.
Brian |
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For the proa nuts out there, John Harris of CLC
is back at it after a 10 year hiatus. Remember Mbuli,
John’s first real Proa? You’d think he would never
go back to proas again. Maybe he is on to something. Should be
fun to watch.
Chuck |
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Catboats
on Pine Island sound.
Dave Lucas |
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Guys, I manage the PDGoose website. A Goose is
just a 12' version of a PDR, but with a 12' boat, you pretty much
need to lengthen your plywood. I put together some drawings and
text for doing a Butt-joint, a Fiberglass butt-joint, and a scarfed
joint. You
can see it here. Feedback is appreciated. I know
of a couple other methods (biscuit joins, stepped edge, jigsaw
edge) but I don't see that they provide any more strength or utility.
Andrew |
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This winter, I'm modeling canoes and kayaks from
The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America. I'm first modeling
them in Delftship where I fair them, etc. Then, I'm outputting
stations and stems to CAD, where I'm cleaning up the plans to
post on my website. I'm aiming to release a set of free stem and
station plans for cedar-strip building every Friday. So far, I've
modeled five boats and released them. You can find the five plans
along with the other free plans I offer on my website here.
Bryan
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Sea Tow Services International, the world’s
leading on-water assistance provider, has launched its “Rig
Your Boat With $10,000” Sweepstakes, where Sea Tow is giving
$10,000 to one lucky boater!
Participants can enter to win at www.seatow.com/10000bucks
. The sweepstakes will run through Jan. 31, 2011, and is open
to boat owners nationwide who are at least 18 years old. No purchase
is necessary to participate.
Gary |
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Looking for something different.
Stewart Strik |
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JWBuilders Akaroa
Classic and Wooden Boat Show 2010. Warning: Bagpipes!
Dave |
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| With my thanks to all of you, the builders, owners
and photographers who provided the photos, I am happy to announce
that the calendar "Beauty & Boxes: Bolger
Boats 2011" is now available. This is a non-profit
project--no funds go to me as the editor or to those who donated
photos--which is how the cost was kept down to $12.49 + shipping.
Matthew |
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Shortcut to West Indies Mahogany.
A tree guy friend gave us a little piece of this, we thought it
was fire wood till Stan cut it up to make gaff jaws and found
fantastic wood inside. This was the first mahogany sent back to
the old world and all the best stuff was made from it. I told
Pat to be on the lookout for more, it's almost impossible to find.
David Lucas, Lucas Boatworks and Happy Hour Club, (941) 704-6736 |
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We're pleased to announce a new generation of Sit
On Top kayak: The Blue Fin. Please note the Blue
Fin comes with a CNC kit option as well as full scale paper patterns
option.
JEM Watercraft |
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175th
Anniversary Regatta at Sydney. Many of you will have
a boat that might be suitable to participate. Others might know
someone who has such a boat. Fred's email is an invitation to
participate in the regatta. Those of you who no longer have a
boat, or cannot arrange for it to participate, might consider
witnessing the yachts on the day. Mori [see some interesting links
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Just wanted to announce that I put the bottom on,
and want to claim the next hull number. I added a bunch of updates
and pics
to the blog. Enjoy. I've reached my goal for the
winter. Now that the bottom is on and glassed, I plan to move
her outside and tarp her for the winter. Then work on the sailing
bits inside. I hope you all are still enjoying your boats in the
warmer climes. Up here we've frozen over so, I'm hoping when the
ice goes out I'll be floating in a Laguna. Chad |
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We (Steve Bosquette and Bob Throne) need your input
.. we'd like to see your boat, sail with you - and maybe swap
tillers, and swap ideas, stories, and boating yarns .. preferably
over a good meal (potluck) by the water. So we've started a Yahoo
Group hoping we can put together a good time in 2011.
Bob |
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Just a little story about an afternoon sail, for
all you Northerners stuck in the ice belt.
There's a snapshot of lunch on our little cockpit table. Comfy.
Ray |
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Here is a nice looking boat, smoking
right along.
Chuck |
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Go
watch this. This isn't a clip of me, but these guys
are decently industrious and they got perfect conditions for this
kind of special multihull adventure.
Chris Ostlind
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I've got 3 pages on my site with Toon2 info.
John Wolf's completed Toon2
Scott Gosnell's in progress Toon2
My in progress Toon2
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