Or, is good, good enough? I'm no genius, as many will be quick to agree with. But I have a very high mechanical aptitude and I think I am good...
My two objections to the traditional rowing rig is that you face backwards (drift boats and river dories excepted) and the oars stick out so far...
I haven't visited this site for a while. I've been riding my bike and repairing the Hyde drift boat that I bought last year. But I'm seeing a...
There is a show on the discovery channel called (I believe) Doomsday Bunkers. It is about preppers preparing for a breakdown in society when it's...
I was on a boat building forum about a year ago and there was a guy wanting advice on a canoe/kayak he was designing that he planned to build from...
Is this the worlds biggest, widest kayak, or a whloe new category? This boat is about seven feet wide and over eighteen feet long. Too wide,...
Now that the light bulb finally came on in my head and I figured out the easy way to put a deck on a boat, I can do what I wanted to do long ago....
I just checked out a new book from my library called 'The Wave', about giant rogue waves. Stories of freak waves over eighty feet, three times...
A lot of my posts have been about boats meant for other people, not myself. River dories for the Grand Canyon and drift boats for fishermen. I...
Suppose you were designing a canoe for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Because it is a performance flatwater tripping canoe, you put...
What just happened? Increasing the LWL and the beam both increase stability, but what affects stability more? Does increasing LWL 10% incrase...
OK, maybe this isn't an entirely new thread, but I thought it would make more sense to start a fresh thread than to tack this on the my pervious...
I've seen magazine ads for white water kayaks with flattish bottoms that seemed to be implying that they were planing hulls. I've always assumed...
I already have Skene's (the revised edition) and Yacht Designing and Planning, by Chapelle, as well as about a dozen books on construction and...
This should probably go under a previous post. I've been told a couple times now that I shouldn't worry too much about some design element, such...
From reading some of the threads and posts at this site, it seems to me that one of the most fundamental questions in boating has not been...
I've been playing around with ideas for a realistically trailerable sailboat that is seaworthy enough for Puget Sound, the great lakes and even...
The confluence of the Green and Colorado Rivers is in Canyonlands National Park, Utah, just above Cataract Canyon. Above Cataract are two the the...
Before the weather turned cold, I was working on getting the seat and oarlocks possitioned on the boat I built, and I was struggling a bit. What...
The sigle chine, flat bottom boat has three potential (notice I said potential) advantages. 1. It is easy to build. 2. It can be shallow draft....