I'm getting new standing rigging for my Seafarer 29 and after being in touch with four riggers I'm feeling... uneasy. I bought the boat 14 years ago, (I'm not sure how much older the rigging is) and so far I haven't seen any corrosion or signs of weakness. All hardware was made in England. Now I...
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I'm in need of possibly the impossible! I came across a 21ft Arrowhead Sloop, originally designed by Charles Mcalary (spelling?), and was originally published in a series of articles in Popular Mechanics in 1936 and again in a book Popular Mechanics released called "20 Boats You Can...
This lobsterboat hull motorboat I designed and built was perhaps the only such craft ever made here to have been sold & exported to the American continent. Here in his home Carribeans
we over-built? this Pilot Cutter 32 ft LOD hull in routered strip planking to 2 1/2". Douglas fir under LWL; and White Spruce topsides; barbed bronze nails fastened ; glued in West System epoxy + three layersx3mm mahogany veneer.
Pilot Cutter epoxy strip planking and cold molded; was built in Institutul de Ape Bucharest Romania 1999; for American Randy willard.Rudder laminated.
Spars were laminated in white spruce.No engine was installed.fastenings siliconic bronze.Bulwarks cold molded mahogany.