Skinboat Journal

This blog is about various boat and environment related topics that I care to comment on. First and foremost, this blog is about skin on frame boats, their construction and use, as well as paddle and other stuff related to skin boat use.

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Monday, August 19, 2013

More Uses for a Two-ton Crane

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My neighbor at the shop came up with yet another novel way to use the two ton overhead crane. Ben floating over the bottom of his boa...

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Kayak Stability

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Yesterday I had a prospective boat building student try out some kayaks so he could see what would be suitable for him. Turned out he wante...

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Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Plywood, the other boat skin

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One of my ongoing research areas is what to cover a skin on frame boat with other than industrial fabrics sealed with modern sealants. Yes,...

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Thursday, May 10, 2012

Whatever Happend to Do It Yourself?

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Boat plans from Popular Mechanics Magazine Whenever I am giving a kayak building demonstration somewhere in a public space, some guy in...

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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Low Entropy Boat Building

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Entropy has generally had a lot of bad press. Entropy is seen as something undesirable, as a general increase of disorder in the universe. ...

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Wolfgang Brinck: I like to look into old and mostly abandoned technologies that people used before the industrial age and also technologies that were used in non agricultural societies. I have a hunch that some of these technologies will again become relevant in a more resource-poor future. If you want to contact me directly, you can reach me at: my first name followed by nomadic at gmail dot com

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