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WoodenBoat Show
Come see us at the WoodenBoat Show in Mystic, CT June 25-27. We'll be at booth 56A in the big tent, and we'll also be helping Family Build Weekend participants construct 8-10 Sassafras 16 canoes with our friends from Chesapeake Light Craft.
We're building a Sassafras
Recently, our blog featured the Chesapeake Light Craft Sassafras 16 canoe. We began building one of our own last week, and came a long way on it in three very short days thanks to CLC's exclusive LapStitch™ construction scheme. CLC's LapStitch is essentially a stitch-and-glue construction method devised especially for lapstrake designs. With these CLC kits you can quickly build a round-bottomed, traditional looking lapstrake boat without a using molds or complex rolling bevels. The result is a stiff, strong, leakproof and beautiful boat.
Maine boatbuilding
Soundings Trade Only magazine has a great write up on progress in Maine boatbuilding.
Career Opportunity
Gougeon Brothers Inc., the manufacturer of WEST SYSTEM® and PRO SET® Epoxy, has a full-time job opening for a Technical Advisor.
Sassafras 16 Canoe
The Sassafras 16 is a great family canoe from Chesapeake Light Craft (CLC). Its bow and stern are symetrical, and her slightly rounded hull is faster and more responsive than typical plastic or fiberglass canoes. Her hull is 6mm okoume protected with fiberglass, and her bow and stern offer watertight flotation compartments. This build-it-yourself kit includes ash-caned seats, sapele decks, mahogany outwales and an ash thwart. Her 450-pound payload can comfortably accomodate a family of four, and she weighs just 65 pounds.
Repairing Minor Cracks & Holes
Springtime is upon us and a lot of folks are finding minor cracks and holes in their fiberglass boats. Of course everyone wants to get these repaired in time for the first warm weekend of boating. Chapter 2 of our Fiberglass Boat Repair & Maintenance manual shows how to make these kinds of repairs, so we're reprinting it here. You can download the entire Fiberglass Boat Repair & Maintenance manual here.
Wooden Countertops
The February/March 2010 issue of Fine Homebuilding magazine features a great article by Dan Vos with step-by-step instructions for building beautiful, durable wooden countertops with WEST SYSTEM® Epoxy. It has everything you need to know from selecting the wood to final installation.
Stephens, Waring & White
Stephens, Waring & White Yacht Design has an excellent blog post about their W-37 daysailer design, now being built by Brooklin Boat Yard in Brooklin, Maine.
Getting the most out of G/flex
Are you the kind of person who just can’t get enough of a good thing? Looking for a better way to squeeze out that last little bit of G/flex adhesive from your tube rather than resorting to pliers, a vise or maybe even Grandma's rolling pin? Maybe you’d like to get a fatter bead of adhesive or your tube is a bit clogged. Boy do we have the some easy and inexpensive tricks for you!
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