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    caulking planks

    Don't forget centerboard trunks. Even the trunk posts in a plywood-and-epoxy boat need caulking if the builder had the wisdom to mount the trunk...
    Post by: Bob Smalser, Aug 8, 2011 in forum: Wooden Boat Building and Restoration
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    yet more rotten wood.

    http://forum.woodenboat.com/showthread.php?71429-Brown-Rot-White-Rot-and-other-Wood-Pestilence.&highlight=pestilence Why? Green lumber used in...
    Post by: Bob Smalser, Aug 3, 2011 in forum: Wooden Boat Building and Restoration
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    Ten Years of Hard Use, Exposure and Neglect -- What Worked and What Didn’t

    I've talked to the local Naval shipyard salvage experts about the 50-tonner. Besides being 2/3 buried in three to four feet of mud and humus...
    Post by: Bob Smalser, Jul 22, 2011 in forum: Wooden Boat Building and Restoration
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    Ten Years of Hard Use, Exposure and Neglect -- What Worked and What Didn’t

    The only rot was immediately above the average waterline where the member either had too much end grain involved or too many unbedded fasteners....
    Post by: Bob Smalser, Jul 20, 2011 in forum: Wooden Boat Building and Restoration
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    Ten Years of Hard Use, Exposure and Neglect -- What Worked and What Didn’t

    I'm not a big fan of splining. More difficult to repair. Splines are weak unless you use quarter-inch plywood, which would turn to mush in these...
    Post by: Bob Smalser, Jul 20, 2011 in forum: Wooden Boat Building and Restoration
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    Ten Years of Hard Use, Exposure and Neglect -- What Worked and What Didn’t

    [img] The salvaged bronze bilge pump ($30-50 on eBay) is mounted so the discharge spout can be rotated inboard, and the entire pump can be...
    Post by: Bob Smalser, Jul 20, 2011 in forum: Wooden Boat Building and Restoration
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    Ten Years of Hard Use, Exposure and Neglect -- What Worked and What Didn’t

    Bilge Pumps [img] I originally mounted a small Rule plastic pump in a basket and kept a 12V battery in the dock box to pump the rainwater out...
    Post by: Bob Smalser, Jul 18, 2011 in forum: Wooden Boat Building and Restoration
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    Ten Years of Hard Use, Exposure and Neglect -- What Worked and What Didn’t

    [img] New and old parts are blended and faired using block plane and rasp, reprimed as necessary, and every seam, check and void is filled with...
    Post by: Bob Smalser, Jul 18, 2011 in forum: Wooden Boat Building and Restoration
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    Ten Years of Hard Use, Exposure and Neglect -- What Worked and What Didn’t

    [img] This is a much faster technique than transferring each fussy angle using bevel gages and pencil marks to a power saw, which won’t easily do...
    Post by: Bob Smalser, Jul 18, 2011 in forum: Wooden Boat Building and Restoration
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    Ten Years of Hard Use, Exposure and Neglect -- What Worked and What Didn’t

    Rope Bumpers. [img] They can both lengthen the life of the sheer guards by providing padding from bumps, and also shorten the life of those...
    Post by: Bob Smalser, Jul 18, 2011 in forum: Wooden Boat Building and Restoration
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    Ten Years of Hard Use, Exposure and Neglect -- What Worked and What Didn’t

    [img] Over a decade ago I built the John Gardner-drawn 12’ Dion Punt below to use for swamp-logging in beaver ponds; a tender for setting the...
    Thread by: Bob Smalser, Jul 18, 2011, 19 replies, in forum: Wooden Boat Building and Restoration
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    Are Your Glue Joints Repairable?

    The 5200 fails in saturation only if it hasn't had sufficient clamping pressure. The PL Premium behaves similarly.....it won't stick at all...
    Post by: Bob Smalser, Apr 18, 2007 in forum: Wooden Boat Building and Restoration
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    Are Your Glue Joints Repairable?

    Here you go: http://www.woodenboatvb.com/vbulletin/upload/showthread.php?t=6799 BTW, that test layup is still soaking today and there is no...
    Post by: Bob Smalser, Apr 15, 2007 in forum: Wooden Boat Building and Restoration
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    Are Your Glue Joints Repairable?

    [img] The WRC heartwood test layup that included resorcinol, West System epoxy, liquid polyurethane, 3M 5200, and PL Premium polyurethane...
    Post by: Bob Smalser, Dec 4, 2005 in forum: Boatbuilding