It's been a long time coming. This boatbuilding stuff is kinda fun.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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