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Comment on Closing in on splashdown by dpahle

dpahle — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:21:34 +0000

Larry:

She is a real beauty!

Which I appreciate even more now that I’ve completed my week in Brooklin taking John Brook’s Glued Lap class.

Will send you a summary about that later (assuming you don’t mind).

Dick

Comment on The philosophical tiller by Steve

Steve — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 04:42:32 +0000

I met Tim after spotting him sailing around Eagle Harbor on his Winter Wren. He was nice enough to allow me aboard after hearing I was planning to build one as well. A beautiful little boat.

Got my start-up project, a Flapjack skiff, going this week. Frames and strongback built, even started a thread on the Wooden Boat forum so I guess it is “go” time.

Steve

Comment on A question of integrity by Ralph Cohen

Ralph Cohen — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:46:19 +0000

You did the right thing coating the plywood; I’ve left scraps of plywood outdoors over the winter exposed to moisture and they grow a nasty mold by spring. You wouldn’t want that going on behind the scenes on your coaming. But, where to draw the line? Epoxy coat every screw hole before installing a screw or through bolt like Sam Devlin recommends in his book using pipe cleaners? Yes, I suppose so if its a big enough hole and water can intrude. We wouldn’t want the next generation that gets our boats after we’re long gone to think we were slackers would we?
Your boat is looking very sharp.
Ralph

Comment on A question of integrity by Dave Dickmeyer

Dave Dickmeyer — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:11:48 +0000

Larry,
Looking beautifuler (my granddaughters word) by the minute. I’m enjoying your postings quite a lot. My boat project still sits waiting patiently. I often walk by and caress it!
The bathroom remodeling is on slow. Nothing seems to be getting done as fast as I (or Dee) would hope. I just keep saying the boat will get my full attention this winter. I can only hope at this point!

Are you planing on finishing your boat for the 2011 boat show. If so, I’ll have mine there too.
Hope to see you then.
Dave

Comment on Sole Music by Stephan Regulinski

Stephan Regulinski — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:11:58 +0000

Larry, I love your grate and firmly believe that your emotional calculation is spot on. To speak to the rational mind, however, consider this: over the life of the boat you will use, look at, stare at, glance at, talk about and get compliments for that grate thousands of times. Spread the cost over each of these events and it costs you mere pennies. How many possessions in your life can stand up to the same calculation? The heart is more reasonable than at first we give it credit.

Comment on by Kathy Kansky

Kathy Kansky — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:51:51 +0000

As always Larry, your adventures not only involve the task at hand but the ever occurring life lessons. I am amazed at your building, but more thankful for the life lessons you so freely share—-simplicity and peace are of much more value than the material object that is so obvious.

Thank you for sharing and for nudging the rest of us to ponder our place in life.

Blessings and Peace,
Kathy

Comment on by Ken Leisher

Ken Leisher — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:29:41 +0000

Great job on the boat and sharing it. Thank you.

Comment on October 2009 by Steve

Steve — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:58:21 +0000

I’ve been following your and Peter’s progress for some time now, waiting for the time enough current projects have moved out of the shop to start a boat of my own. My most space intensive project is a frame-off restoration of a 1968 Ford Bronco. I thought progress would be swift after getting the body back on it’s frame but the number of details left to do is remarkable. Getting at least a couple of hours in every day, just doing something on “The List” keeps the momentum going.

Keeping the plans for a Steve Redmond “Flapjack” pinned to one wall of the shop helps too…

Comment on February 2009 by Sailing & Yachting

Sailing & Yachting — Thu, 21 May 2009 19:31:55 +0000

Sailing & Yachting…

[...] Even though this is my fourth wood-fiberglass composite boat (two kayaks and a sailing dinghy before), I still struggle to make decent fillets. These are the thickened-epoxy coves in the interior of the hull where any two structural … [...]…

Comment on April 2009 by Boats

Boats — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:02:54 +0000

this is a great story.: “April 2009″. Just subscribed to your feed Yes, very true ~boats