David emailed me: he saw the photos in my previous post and said he’s been admiring this design for a while. But doesn’t understand the buding method.
It can’t be that difficult to explain I thought, so last night I got out pencil and paper. Here’s how it works, all fiddly detail – daggerboards etc – [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Build a boat in 7 easy steps
Posted in Uncategorized on 17 September 2009 | 1 Comment »
An elegant building method
Posted in Uncategorized on 14 September 2009 | 4 Comments »
Just about to fit the seats – which form the tops of the side bouyancy tanks – when I remembered I needed to treat the insides of the tanks first.
As the wood preservative is pretty smelly, and the garage has a door to the house, I took advantage of the great weather this weekend to [...]
North Berwick Traditional Boat Muster
Posted in Uncategorized on 7 September 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I had hoped to be at this event on Saturday, but the weather was against me. Several interesting new and historic small boats were going to be there. No report from the East Lothian Yacht Club yet.
The organiser emailed me:
We did manage to run the rowing race, but it was hard work in a bit of [...]
Opening the garage door…
Posted in Uncategorized on 4 September 2009 | Leave a Comment »
…for my Walkabout to see daylight for the first time:
and for me to have more space to fit the second planks from the bottom.
This was a couple of months ago. Since then, the planks you can see have been tidied up; the stringers at the top of the planks planed down to give a flat [...]
