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Category Archives: Building
The Dungeness Crabber, A Boatbuilder’s Legacy
The human brain is a facile machine that can pump out an ocean of ideas. Some are gold, some are dross and fate may have it that some will fade into obscurity. A designer’s legacy is that portion of his … Continue reading
Posted in Building, Designs, Sailor's crafts, Uncategorized
Tagged boat, boat-building, carlsborg, cutter, Dungeness, gaff, John Magner, magazine, pocket, Port Townsend, sailboat, sailing, Straits of Juan de Fuca, washington, Woodenboat, yacht
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Heritage Boatworks: My Newest Favorite Podcast
Yes, I am crazy about podcasts, especially if they center around sailing and boats. This is a narrow field so I take what I can get. You can find a number of them on iTunes that have faded long ago … Continue reading
Posted in Building, Podcasts, Uncategorized
Tagged boat-building, catboat, dory, Lowell, museum, New England, sailboat, sailing, Stur-Dee
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Off Center Harbor Features A treasure Trove Of Sailing Video
Television does not have a lot to offer a sailor. There are fleeting glimpses of sailboats and occasionally attractive Hollywood types posing in the cockpit of a fantastic plastic lavishly trimmed out in teak. The dialog is busily engaged in … Continue reading
Posted in Building, Sailor's crafts, Video
Tagged boat-building, boatbuilding, sailboat, sailing, video, Winter, Wooden Boat Festival
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Clarity And Depth – The Chester Yawl Chapter 8
The beauty that is in the eye of the beholder demands clarity. It is never more pleased than when it penetrates the blue sky or sees fish winding among eel grass below the surface of clear water. When we who … Continue reading
Garage? No Cars Allowed: The Chester Yawl – Chapter 7
I have had three garages in my adult life. One of them sheltered an automobile for one night. That seems more than generous to me. I look upon cars as practical transportation fit to live in the outdoors much like … Continue reading
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Tagged boat-building, chester, garage, sailboat, storage, varnish, yawl
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Christened By A Fine Rain, The Chester Yawl Takes to The Water – Chapter 6
A new boat comes to life by degrees. As individual parts come together the construction takes on a form that makes it’s function apparent. It becomes a vessel gradually. A boatbuilding project can take a long time and bring doubts … Continue reading
Posted in Building, Sailor's crafts
Tagged Chesapeake Light Craft, chester, CLC, Olympic Peninsula, Straits of Juan de Fuca, trailer, water, yawl
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It’s A Festival, It Has Wooden Boats. What More Could You Want?
I call it my annual pilgrimage to the land of my people. I love to walk the docks and talk to other people who are in some degree obsessed by boats,especially the wooden kind. You can’t do better than the … Continue reading
Posted in Building, Events, Sailor's crafts
Tagged boat, boat-building, Chesapeake Light Craft, CLC, Edensaw, kayak, MAS, Port Townsend, sailboat, sailing, Wooden Boat Festival, Woodenboat
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It takes A Lot Of Grit To Smooth Things Out – Chester Yawl Part 5
Typically it takes a week or so to get one of these Chester Yawl chapters posted. This one’s taken longer than I wanted to show up. My life does not allow time or energy for steady writing but that gives … Continue reading
Details and Thinking Outside The Box The Kit Came In: Chester Yawl Part 4
A boatbuilding project breaks down into many tasks varying in importance. Smaller components are completed and brought together with other sub-assemblies so that the sum of the parts will create something like the whole. One reaches a point where all … Continue reading
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