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Viewing entries tagged with 'boatbuilding'
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!
So stands the mighty oak
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| The Druids waved their golden knives and danced around the Oak when they had sacrificed a man; but though the learned search and scan no single modern person can entirely see the joke. But though they cut the throats of men they cut not down the tree, and from the blood the saplings spring of oak-woods yet to be ... from ‘The Song of the Oak’ G.K. Chesterton |
Wood-Epoxy Demystified
You can tell a book's importance and value by where you find it. The Gougeon Brothers on Boat Construction is no exception. Tattered, stained copies are found in the shops of virtually every boatbuilder or repairer worth his salt. It's found in libraries and reference rooms, and within easy reach of a legion of amateur boatbuilders and repairers. My own copies, a 23-year-old, dog-eared fourth edition, and the newly released fifth edition, are tucked in with my prized Oxford Companion to Ships and Seas, Nigel Calder's Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual, and Chapman's Piloting, Seamanship & Small Boat Handling.
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 Zogo underway. Photo by Billy Black |
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