Calendar Islands Yawl Modeling Continued

Fleshing out the Calendar Islands YawlModeling the InteriorWhile I am actually breaking out the geometry of the final 3D computer model, the interior of the "in-the-flesh" model was glued in yesterday and Ill prime it today.Cutting out quarter scale bulkheads for Calendar Islands Yawl interior.It never ceases to amaze me how everything just fits. Paper...

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Misty Moonbeam

Misty Moonbeam a unique yacht which was designed and built by the late Michael Corbin. For many years Misty Moonbeam was a familiar sight on the Medina River in Cowes.A previous owner writes "If you would like to see more of the interior of Misty Moonbeam - heres the link to an Album created April 2010 - which can be viewed page by page without purchase....

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Voice recognition software

I am writing this short post in order to test the voice recognition software embedded in Windows 7. It is my hope that I can write posts more frequently in this way and also answer my backlog of emails.My primary work is boatbuilding and design and I am finding it difficult to keep up with the administrative work which articles, emails, and the blog...

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This blog is being moved

This blog is being transferred to my own website. All the posts have already been copied over ...http://www.storerboatplans.com/wpThere is a good search function on the top right of that page.For discussion, podcasts and more on boat design, boat plans, boat building, boat repair, plywood, epoxy, amateur built boats, sailing boats, canoes, kayaks, rowboats, yachts and more.Best wishesMichaelfor General...

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First Mate Side Seat Rails

At the end of June 2011, I published a post about my idea for moveable side seating in cruising dinghies. The idea is that side seats can be used if prefered (although I like to sit down low in the boat with my weight near the windward turn of bilge) and can also be removed at a moments notice. Most importantly, if they are slid into the centre of...

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Answers to a couple of recent comments

Here is comment received regarding Fleet:-How much does she weigh?What I like about flint is that the center of balance is over the center thwart making her easy to carry and light enough for this senior citizen to car top.Well, I cant tell you how much she weighs because we havent weighed her yet, but the material thickness is the same as on Flint...

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Love Love by Julien Berthier

French artist Julien Berthier created this boat. According to him, "Love love is the permanent and mobile image of a wrecked ship that has become a functional and safe leisure object".Im not sure the Health and Safety Executive would agree with him about the last part. Heres what the gallery that displayed it said. "For this piece he adapted an abandoned...

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A Dory for Gazela Primeiro and at the end tips on glass application

A while ago I received a nice email from Tony Souza regarding construction issues with a new dory he intended building for the old Portuguese barkentine Gazela Primeiro.Hello Ross,Thanks for your recent article "Stems and Trailers".  In that article you discuss natural timber vs plywood construction and show the merits of plywood glued lapstrake...

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About something you really need

Something you might want to think about, a bit of asshat humor, and in the "Wrong then Wrong now" department...I dont, as a rule, make pronouncements of the "everybody needs to have this" sort but every boat really needs some sort of emergency rudder that works if youre sailing out of cellphone range.Ya think?Fact is, building an emergency rudder that...

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Peter Duck

Peter Duck is a character in one of Arthur Ransomes famous children’s novels, in later life he commissioned Jack Laurence Giles to design a comfortable cruising ketch which was named after the character. The design was commissioned just after the war in 1945, built by Kings of Pin Mill in Suffolk she was completed in 1947Ransome is alleged to have...

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Sailing Model AMYA Star45 Class Construction Deck s Hatches

from John Fisher:Attaching deck to hullJohn Fisher photographerHull with deck mounted:John Fisher photographer--------------------HATCHES:From Phil Geren:The simplest hatch cover solution I have found for Star 45 is to cut a piece out of Presentation Cover vinyl, which cut-out is shaped like the hatch opening but 1/4 or 3/8 of an inch larger on all...

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The Goat Island Skiff Project Begins

Michael Storers Goat Island Skiff is a GREAT boat. We decided to build one for ourselves and use the boat as a test for producing high-quality, perfectly fitting kits to sell to amateurs and other professionals with little time on their hands. The goal for these kits is that they produce a hull with perfect lines that have been adjusted by a professional...

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Knud Reimers Tumlare or Tumlaren

unattributedGokstad Faering courtesy Vikingskip og norske trebåterKnud Reimerscourtesy SwedesailAn original Reimers drawing of TumlareunattributedunattributedunattributedAt 10,000 pounds of Nordic pitchpine and steam bent oak frames, Egret shows some power in a breeze. This photo was taken on Clear Lake in Northern California where she served as the...

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Boat vs Whale

A couple of days ago a sailboat named "Luffin It" entered the harbor under tow. It was a Pearson 367, a 36 foot cruising cutter that is slightly larger than the Honcho. I have downloaded a couple of photos of a sistership, which I got from Yachtworld.com to give you a sense of the size and shape of this boat. Or you can visit this web site for a lot...

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Fairey Atalanta

Decked out for the Royal Jubilee this Fairy Atalanta has its origin if not precisely in the Coronation year 1953 but is certainly a product of that post war period of English enthusiasm and innovation. Fairey Marine applied hot moulded wooden construction developed in wartime, to production boat building, the technique enabled light weight and...

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