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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
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Tagged Chesapeake Light Craft, chester, CLC, Olympic Peninsula, Straits of Juan de Fuca, trailer, water, yawl
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As the Arrow Flies: Chester Yawl Part 3
A boat is a roundish sort of thing. Round is not an ideal hydrodynamic shape. Push it through the water and it will tend to wander, much like my prose, unless something is added to set things straight. The pull … Continue reading
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Tagged boat-building, Chesapeake Light Craft, chester, fiberglass, skeg, Woodenboat, yawl
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The Sheer Beauty of a Fair Rail: Chester Yawl Part 2
In which the boys in the boatshed live on the edge before being run out of town on a rail. ON FAIRNESS I like to run my eye along a beautiful curve. When a line sweeps along a contour with … Continue reading
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Tagged boat, boat-building, chesapeake, chester, clamp, CLC, fair, project, rail, sheer, watercraft, Woodenboat, yawl
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