Lazy day. So here are some videos to watch.
It was one of those days today. Nice autumn weather, lots of chores still outstanding but I figured that I had better things to do. Instead, Denny and I went out for a drive to explore an area that...
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Boatbuilders skills course
Ran it last weekend. We had a great time! I enjoyed the happy, friendly group of guys I had here for the weekend, there were lots of laughs, a lot of pertinent questions, they paid attention, learned...
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A look at my Pilgrim design.
Pilgrim.Its Thursday today, here in New Zealand anyway as we get the new day before anyone else. I’ve promised myself that I’d do my best to get a post up here every Thursday, even if its not about a...
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Long Steps, a preview/
Long Steps.I think that I’ve mentioned before, that in my plans range we have “Tread Lightly” which came from a little poem about how we should treat the earth on which we walk (metaphor), and...
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I've started the build, here's the first piece of Long Steps.
On Sunday I got started on the build of my very own adventure boat. I get lots of emails from people who are out there having way too much fun, and its time I was out there with them. Now, I’ve...
View ArticleI've just run the second "Essential Skills for Beginnner Boatbuilders" class
Three students this time, Thanks Reg, David and Matt, that was a great couple of days.We had one Pathfinder builder, one making up his mind, and his family visited us while we were having a little...
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Progress on Long Steps and a few other bits of news.
Progress on Long Steps.Stem, frames one and two are done, frame three is close. Number three is the one on the forward side of the cuddy that has the big hatches in so it wont be completed until I...
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Progress on Long Steps and some other things.
Life has ambushed me a bit, so my work on things boating have had to fit in between other things of late. But progress is happening, I’ve another frame for Long Steps about done, that’s four. That...
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Wintertime, a good time to work on Long Steps.
Wintertime. No blues though. Well, only a few.Its been a wet week, high winds, thunderstorms and torrential rain. Even my little dog hates going out in this, so apart from the usual engineering jobs,...
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Its warm and cozy working in here at the drawing board
But the workshop is ok too, at least in the afternoons when things have warmed up a little.With the winter weather having arrived in spades its nice to be inside working on the drawing board, and I’ve...
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Getting ready to set the frames up on the building jig.
But I have to build that building jig first. I wrote the text below on Friday evening, went out today between showers and bought the two long pieces and enough for legs and cross pieces for the jig,...
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Long Steps stem and frames are being stood up, the shape is starting to be...
The shape is beginning to appear!Woohoo! So far the shape that was in my minds eye, developed by appplication of theory of hydrodynamics and such, modified by analysis of stress paths and loadings was...
View ArticleGone Walkabout.
Blog for this week.Its late, I’ve been otherwise occupied for a couple of days, so the blog has had to wait. So heres’s a little thing to keep you occupied until I can get into the shed when there is...
View ArticleGone Walkabout.
Blog for this week.Its late, I’ve been otherwise occupied for a couple of days, so the blog has had to wait. So heres’s a little thing to keep you occupied until I can get into the shed when there is...
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Long Steps is taking shape, all the frames are up.
Slow progress, but progress nevertheless.I’ve altered a couple of things, so had to remake one frame. But that’s done now, and I’ve all of them stood up, glued and screwed to the bottom panel, and the...
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A piece at a time.
Building yourself a boat is not so much a huge job, as a whole lot of small jobs. So I've done a few of those over the past week and the project is looking better all the time.Started the epoxy...
View ArticleSouthern Cross is in and sailing
Here's the proof.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgGnVkpLvQ0&feature=em-subs_digestFor those not in the know, "Southern Cross" is Howard Rice's customised SCAMP, built specifically for a voyage of...
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Mast box, plus some work to get SEI ready to sail.
Oh yes, and the first few days of spring.I’ve not had much time in the workshop this week, so there has not been a lot of progress in there. I did though have a nice three day stay with Denny and our...
View ArticleHoward Rice's SCAMP is in and sailing
You can check it out on the below40south.com website, that and other video clips are under the "Media" heading at the top of the home page.He's going to be living on board for much of the next month,...
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Springtime weather and other stuff. Long Steps progress, sailing SEI at last,...
Its raining. Not a howling horizontal fire hose kind of rain like yesterday, or a misty just enough to get you wet before you realise it but an honest, steady soaking into the ground to get the spring...
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