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messing-about Simmons finally launched  
06:33 15-Aug-06   [Replies: 8, Views: 323]    By: Unnamed
It's been a long time coming. This boatbuilding stuff is kinda fun. Image linked from another site (click to open) Image linked from another site (click to open) Image linked from another site (click to open) Image linke...
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messing-about Cool little boatlets  
06:28 28-May-06   [Replies: 6, Views: 238]    By: Unnamed
I saw these and was wondering if there is a pirogue type canoe plans similar to this idea anywhere. This is a good way too point out why I don't believe the Simmons too tippy. I had close to this in mind as far as poling it in shallow water. Look ho...
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messing-about Environmental Tests Final  
09:26 13-May-06   [Replies: 2, Views: 89]    By: Unnamed
Today I put my boat on it's trailer. Sun is hitting it where it hasn't touched before and this marks the end of a long drawn out dream and on to the creation of many more. After taking the cradle apart and leveling the ground and giving it a wetting ...
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messing-about Old Florida Boats  
04:20 9-May-06   [Replies: 20, Views: 450]    By: Unnamed
I have been searching thru many pages of google looking for traditional florida skiffs,boats,boat building,net skiffs,you name it. Florida maritime history amongst many other terms I could affix. I came across this picture from the keys. Is this a Fl...
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messing-about Bow skiff  
06:06 7-May-06   [Replies: 20, Views: 292]    By: Unnamed
I was reading Rob White's web page in reference to the bow skiff and it's construction. How the flare was constructed of thicker planking and then shaped into a flare foreward bow section. I hadn't really thought of this but there was a man in Eng...
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messing-about Way to go Oyster  
03:34 19-Apr-06   [Replies: 7, Views: 211]    By: Unnamed
Congrats on your award at the show in Cortez. http://www.fgcscf.org/ Lee Hickok Award for Traditional Design; Traditional Construction: Sprits'l Skiff - Mike Fonville of Moorhead City, NC...
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messing-about Boat interiors  
04:19 8-Apr-06   [Replies: 7, Views: 419]    By: Unnamed
Hello everyone. Just wondering if some of you guys/girls out there could post some pictures of yours or other's painted interiors of your boats so as I could get some ideas of colors. I am looking for cool colors(not too hot to sit/stand on in the FL...
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messing-about Voids in plywood question  
07:26 31-Mar-06   [Replies: 5, Views: 228]    By: Unnamed
I keep hearing about voids in plywood. I can almost understand why this might make it bend funny but it seems it would have to be quite large.As far as condensation forming within the plys,how is this possible?I mean,why would this occur moreso in a ...
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messing-about Screws with glue  
06:06 30-Mar-06   [Replies: 12, Views: 257]    By: Unnamed
In structural situations in boat building,Is it better to use screws with glue when possible? Even if epoxy is strong enough by itself,I still like to know that there is both.Kind of one of those holding hands situations it seems.I know in some racin...
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messing-about Panga/Caribiana skiff  
09:11 26-Mar-06   [Replies: 2, Views: 873]    By: Unnamed
Is there a design anywhere of one of the Panga styled boats. Like the Caribiana. Would love to find something similar in glued lap plywood.Only ones I have seen were slab sided stitch and tape. I am looking for something in the neighborhood of 23 ft....
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messing-about Solvent Sanding  
05:31 26-Mar-06   [Replies: 1, Views: 97]    By: Unnamed
I'm talking to a friend of mine on the phone tonight and he had this wood boat for about 15 years. It is painted faithfully with Ben Moore exterior alkyd enamel house paint. The thing was always immaculate when I saw it and I asked him how he keeps i...
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messing-about Irwin quick-grip clamps  
06:45 20-Mar-06   [Replies: 1, Views: 528]    By: Unnamed
I don't know if anyone else has had problems with this brand but ever since Irwin took over the quick-grip line of instant bar clamps,I have found they don't hold near as well as the originals that were made by vise grip. I have some of the older bla...
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messing-about Another new member  
09:45 19-Mar-06   [Replies: 13, Views: 179]    By: Unnamed
Hello, My name is Paul and I am a woodboataholic. I started out watching/helping a master work boat builder build amazing wooden boats by eye here in central Florida. He built carvel planked shrimpers,ply/glass grouper and mullet boats and skiffs. H...
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