progress The false stem is on and waiting to be faired, same thing for the skeg. Outside of hull is mostly sanded but needs some fairing. Weather...
my strips are home milled and rather rough. The boat will be painted rather than bright finished, so I am tacking the strips down with galvanized...
progress first 11 strips are on after much messing with the molds. The shape looks good with only a bit of a problem at the stern ( tucks in a...
back bone is almost complete: laminated the stern knee this A.M will do final assembly tomorrow and do any fairing necessary on the molds. Might...
No race boat? Well, I said that, but the skin-on-frame boat I'm using to get my molds was my race boat for 6 years so I know it rows pretty good....
Molds now complete. set up soon then, finally building in a week or two. Don't know if I'll have a complete boat before cold weather ( building...
progress The strong back istogether, leveled and squared. The boat is on it and leveled up. The bridge is on the strongback and I'm ready to...
Finally got 3500 l.f. of western red cedar milled up. Bead and coves run, the bad spots all cut out, ends scarfed and glued into boat length...
Anne Not sure of the designer. I did a search for plans and came up with a boat named Anne at 20' LOA. I'll lool again and post the site if I...
back from the dead Well, 1-1/2 years after an operation for cancer and three heart procedures I'm going to try to get building and rowing again....
old engines Jon states that the engine is getting old. Just for the record, he is still the guy to try to beat around here. The stability issue...
old guys Keith, great report on your race. I love your description of holding off a challenging boat. Over here, often times, how you start is...
surgery surgery is for prostrate cancer so I should be up and around pretty quickly. the back pain is from years of working too hard and carrying...
river race Blazing heat: mid 90's and high humidity. Great day for a race! The turn-out was small due to the weather so we raced for time only....
paddling I've got the parts together to build two 12' double paddle canoes. Should be good enough to get me and my woman out on the North River...
keeping up our slow old skiff keeps up with many of the kayaks but the really dedicated paddlers will always beat us. A light boat with 21' LOA...
essex really dissapointed that I missed the Essex race. I don't know why, but I really like the course, it is very demanding; especially getting...
update Saw Jon at the New Bedford race last Saturday. He posted a time of 34minutes and change over a 3.5 statute mile course. There was a stiff...
Blackburn Just to try to clarify, the start is just north of the railroad bridge. When I scaled it out, I came up with almost 21 statute miles. I...
bad a baby seal walks into a bar room and climbs up on a bar stool. What will you have asks the bar tender? The seal answers: Anything but a...
