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With the m'n'f'ing cover gone, and the bottom painted all one color.... gosh, Gepetto, it looks like a real live boat! Actually, it looks completely ridiculous without a bootstripe, but there were barnacle husk marks halfway up the old stripe, so I decided to let this first season tell me the waterl...

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That looked like fun!

Man, it sure is a pretty sheerline when it's all naked like that. I'll bet your juices are really flowing now!

"You see, Mr. Excavator, I really need you get out here fast, 'cuz I just cut the top off the boat and you would not believe the difference......"

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Should the intake for the bilge blower feed from the top of the engine compartment, or the bottom? My instinct says to locate at the bottom, as lighter-than-air gasses should theoretically find their own way out, but instincts have been wrong before.... I also splurged on an automatic fire suppressi...

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Our Maine contingent is quiet today.

hmmm, wonder why.....

weather.com tells me 77 degrees, 16knots gusting to 24.

I wonder if the boys have blown off work to go sailing???

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I decided that a little bit of deadline-motivation was in order, so I made the call. I'm scheduled to launch one week from today. I put an APB out for all the boys to lend a hand this weekend. No responses yet, but I'm optimistic. I'm about to go to lunch with a guy who owns a sweet 6" RO porte...

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Tim wrote: I used 4" of Homosote (polyisocyanurate), which has a high R value. Cheap at Home Depot.

Polyisocyanurate is roughly R-6 per inch of thickness. Awesome stuff. Definitely the most bang for the buck.

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the telltale of genius in design....

every one of those little thruhulls is juuuuuuust high enough to piss out onto the dock and get it all slippery.

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overthinking again; Ok, I got a little bored last night. It's rerun season after all. My new main halyard line and shackle had arrived, so I decided to see if I could remember how to lay a splice.... http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid64/pa3cd7062e1e4aebf01f741b013468cdb/fbfd75ec.jpg After I'd...

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Yeah, I'm a broken record, but..... the Nester design by Dave Gerr is, in my opinion, the most well-thought-out nesting dinghy design I've seen. If memory serves, it is designed to carry sail, though I'm not sure if anyone's yet built one to sail. As for the height of the mast.... there's no law req...

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Perpetuating the quotefest..... Triton: The Boat Wine Built. Hey, if you're going to build a boat with wine, it might as well be portugese!!! That portugese wine packs a wonderful whallop. Waxing nostalgic....... When I lived in Bristol, my next-door neighbor was portugese (spoke no english except f...

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3M "PerfectIt II" rubbing compound. It's in a black bottle, probably $30/quart. This stuff is just a liquid miracle. it cleans, it brightens, it protects, all without rubbing til your arm falls off. There's no need to wait for it to "haze over" before wiping off. How awesome is t...

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Unfortunately, Tim, the design world is rarely a start-from-scratch operation these days. I'm sure that the above pictured abomination is the result of hundreds of "design tweaks". tweak a little here to get more salon headroom tweak a little there to get space for a wine fridge in the coc...

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#78's head discharge had a mushroom on the outside, but still the flange of the seacock was set in 'glass on the inside, just like #100. No lagbolts, though. I swear, if the previous owner hadn't indicated that this seacock was responsible for the partial-sinking incident, I would've backtracked and...

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Hey there Tim Taylor! why not just go for one of the new 24-Volt units?!!! PorterCable fell out of the running today. The link to the $100 price I found was a fraud that jumped to a chicago electric $25 junker. Lowest price I can find on that one now is $140, and I read a few reviews that complained...

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That's why I chose the 12V version which while working at the boat I use without it's ownthe battery but with a self made wire connected to the boat's main battery. Oh, that is just BRILLIANT!!! Ever tried jumpstarting the boat with the drill's battery? ;) Seriously, though; I love that idea. You j...

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So you've established that the less heavily loaded Dasein has a speed advantage over Glissando in light air, however slight. It stands to reason then that you'll be able to exact your revenge once the Daysailor is finished, as one might assume that this boat will be lighter still! This got me thinki...

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in "Tools and Techniques".

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(tim asked me to explain my general dislike of cordless drills) I don't mean to get off on a Rant here, but...... #1 Size: It seems that whenever i'm using a drill, either as a drill or as a screwdriver, I'm using it up under the dashboard of a car, or inside some kitchen cabinetry or other furnitur...

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Yeah, but boats floating around with no chainplates and therefore no rig don't do anyone much good either! No one but myself to blame on that front. I decided to continue the OverKill by overboring the chainplate bolt holes, filling with epoxy, and then redrilling to eliminate the bolt holes as a po...

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With a bit more distance on the actual process, and a few weeks spent working with the results, I think this is worth adding..... It was stupid, stupid, STUPID of me to cut the existing rotten bulkheads free the way I did. I sawzalled through the shelf ends and vberth ends to free the bulkhead. Now ...

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hey, man, I'm tryin'! If only life would quit getting in the way!!!! A lady here at work is in the beginning stages of divorce. She's getting hit pretty hard. Hocking her jewelry to pay her lawyer. She asked me for a quote to move her to her new apartment (Moving is a little side gig I do for cash)....

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The discussion of mast beams and posts in the Boatbuilding Techniques catetgory got me wandering through the Glissando restoration site... Tim, your mast step is epoxied plywood?? Is that typical? Mine's cast aluminum, and was corroded enough to lead me to assume that it was original to the boat.

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I guess it's worth mentioning that my mast beam has become mostly cosmetic..... It's just a chunk of wood there to conceal the 1/4" steel plate that's going to be thru-bolted to the bulkheads. I suppose it also contributes to the bearing surface of the mast step onto that steel plate, but that'...

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A member of my club made a plug for his well a number of years ago. I've forgotten what model of boat it was, he's since moved onto another boat. He made a blank out of styrofoam, stuck it in the well, and then faired the bottom to the rest of the hull with one of those "surform" cheese-gr...

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While speaking of sheaves.... Do you guys lubricate your masthead sheaves?

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I'll back Tim on the tabbing thickness. In my bulkhead demolition, the typical tabbing was 1/4", with some spots as heavy as 3/8" thick. Severe overkill. For an alternative to tabbing as a method of rigidly fixing post to bulkhead, I'd suggest buttering the back of the post in thick epoxy,...

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Keep hunting, Nathan. There are thousands of small boat designs out there. I'm certain that you'll find one that lights your fire and suits your needs. Strap in. I feel a ramble coming on...... It could also be argued that one should build a more utilitarian "paint-grade" boat to gain expe...

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It would seem that my main halyard evaporated over the winter.

Any reccommendations on line type and size? how about the terminal fitting?

Length?

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Depending on the weight of cloth and type of resin used, you might actually be able to pull this thing off. Using System Three's Clear Coat resin (see "epoxy" thread) I've been able to get 12oz of cloth (3 layers of 4oz) to go totally clear. It just looks like a really really really deep v...

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I actually read through the fat guys site a number of times as I was setting up for my mini-acorn, and I thought they overcomplicated it. Each piece of wood on the boat is not worth its own melodrama. But they illustrate another side of the issue.... building the boat for the sake of building the bo...

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Nathan, I hesitate to be this preachy, but I must urge you in the strongest possible terms to get the wife fully on board with the idea of whatever tender you decide to build. Building any boat is a remarkable investment of time, and if she resents that time in any way, building the boat will quickl...

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I managed to assemble the mast on saturday. Reassembling that which was disassembled by others was an interesting exercise. As a matter of habit, I wrapped all connections that invoved a cotter pin or ringding in rigging tape. Later on, looking at other boats on the river, I noticed that not many ot...

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oh, jealousy is setting in quite firmly. That looks like a great setup. I can see why you wanted it in the originally proposed location, but I don't think you're giving up much with this fallback. Look on the brightside.... that extra little bit of distance will help keep the boat barn from collecti...

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I too have plans for the Acorn. I was in the process of building a scaled-down Acorn as a fun alternative to the ubiquitous Little Red Wagon for my buddy who was expecting his first child. Then I bought the sponge-for-free-time known as the Triton. So, if you're looking for 1/3 scale station moulds,...

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So what's up with the broken scanner? I'm dying to see this site plan.

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I first tried System Three when building a cedarstrip canoe because of good things I'd heard/read about their "Clear Coat" formula. This turned out to be an excellent product. It cured clear as day, even in my shop's less than ideal conditions. To me, this is the true virtue of S3 products...

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Tim, A small frame under the twart is certainly a solution that's on my list, but I think it will be my last-ditch effort just because I want to leave a clean inner-bottom to be able to hose this thing out as easily as possible. Weight..... I'm waiting until after paint and oarlocks and other bits a...

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Another dinghy design I should've mentioned above was the nesting pram by Dave Gerr. I first learned of this design in his book The Nature of Boats . http://www.downeaster.net/nestor_dinghy.htm Though a bit more time consuming to build (basically you build two smaller boats) I think it should be no ...

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(followup of this thread http://www.triton381.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=94 ) As mentioned in other posts, I had to float test the new dinghy in order to best determine the primary thwart location. Today was reasonably nice weather, so down to the club we went..... http://www.imagestation.com/picture...

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"T'aint cheap" is right! since that would more than double the current material cost of the boat, I think I'll continue down my current El-Cheapo path.... I'm thinking foam waterpipe insulation at $0.35/foot and some craft-store (I'll let the wife handle that estrogenic paradise) canvas fa...

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Only after devouring All this and Sailing too and spending HOURS pouring over Lines did I recently learn that a special autographed, numbered, and sleeved collector's edition of Lines is available for not much more than the base cost.

DOH!!!!

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Please understand, I ordinarily shy away from goofy looking ergo-riffic tools like this http://www.powershot-tool.com/tools/staple_guns/images/product3.jpg but Big Orange must've been running an irresistable promo, because I bought one a few years ago. It's been worth every nickel I paid. This is on...

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D5!!!! Thank you!!! I was trying to remember the name of that one, but I just couldn't recall it! Yes, I actually liked that one better than all mentioned above. They seem to have really worked all the kinks out of the plans (it's really just a refined version of one of their older designs), and as ...

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Tim,

That cushy rubrail on your Fatty Knees.... is that canvas or rubber? stock item, or did you install?

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Tim, Thanks for the info. I actually was able to contact the designer about this issue, and it turns out that NOBODY can say where to locate these things, as to his knowlege I'm the first to build the design. I need to float-test it this weekend to determine the best position. Actually, I'm looking ...

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well, a week has gone by with no informed responses, so I'll blather for a bit. TEN GALLONS of epoxy and FIVE POUNDS of woodflour!!!!! YOWZA! that's like.... a whole fleet of canoes just waiting to happen! seriously.... I've never used or even heard of "epoxy plus" before. In your situatio...

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I detest cetol. Having said that.... at the moment I LOVE the stuff! Prior to the incident which spurned #78's three years of neglect, the brightwork was cetol'd. I thank god that it was. From the appearances of things, I thought I was going to have to scrap all of the woodwork and start from scratc...

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Let's remember that there is such a thing as an "instant classic".

this springs to mind.... (Rumery's Frost 38)

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I'm starting to appreciate the genius behind the magazine title Good Old Boat , as it's inclusive enough to gather everyone who has a loveable "classic", without begging definition of "classic". Personally, I don't think one can use "cult following" as an attribute of a...

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For all those with rigid dinghies as tenders.... What's the fore-and-aft location of the middle seat and its oarlocks? Of course, I lust after a Nutshell for a tender, but this spring I had neither the money for plans & good materials nor the time to invest in a lapstrake hull. Instead I got som...

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