Tuesday, April 29, 2008

The Roger B. Smith Design Award Goes to ...

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My Ryobi R1801M router is a piece of crap. I think the intentions of the designers were honorable, but in the interest of economy, they mad...
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Pt. Hope Kayak Revisited

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Two days ago the wind was blowing straight out of the west and whipping up whitecaps. So I thought it was time to give the Pt. Hope boat an...
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Almquist Lumber 2nd Annual Wooden Boat Show

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I have been invited to come up to Arcata for the second annual wooden boat show put on by Almquist lumber. The date is May 17 for anyone wa...

TAKS 2008, The Blue Water Symposium

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TAKS 2008 is coming up in October. For those of you who don't know what TAKS is, it's the Traditional Arctic Kayak Symposium. This...
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Thursday, April 17, 2008

Sandbagging

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See a few posts back for seaworthiness. Seaworthiness has something to do with stability and stability is aided by a low center of gravity....
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The Olive Drab Helicopters

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Lots of noise outside yesterday. So I looked and found these helicopters hanging around the gray ships of the reserve fleet. Big helicopters...

Paddle Decorations

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I made a paddle for one of the local paddlers. He wanted decorations on it. I did a NW Coast design for him. In the process, I also did a fe...

Wood Gathering

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I almost finished my driftwood kayak rack earlier this week but was a few sticks short of a complete rack. So off to the Alameda driftwood r...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Seaworthiness

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I just picked up a book called Seaworthiness, The Forgotten Factor , by C.A. Marchaj at one of the local used bookstores. The prose is a li...
Monday, April 7, 2008

Sunset Cruise on the Bay

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Sunday I went out on Tim Anderson's Free Yacht. See here for more details on how he got this free yacht. Tim is a first rate scrounger...
Friday, March 14, 2008

How's the Book Coming, Part zero?

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Every few weeks or so, I get email asking me how the new version of The Aleutian Kayak is coming. Then I type something to the effect that ...
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Survival at Sea, Update

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See below for pictures of three survival at sea books that I posted about. I've read two of them completely now and skipped ahead to th...

Chandleries

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When I need to buy boaty stuff, mostly exotic plastic string, I go to the local chandleries, of which we have two. Pictures below. Mostly, I...

Plastic Fantastic Container Bloat

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Don't get me wrong; it's nice that when I buy a tool, it comes in a container. Makes it easier to carry to the imaginary job site. ...
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Logo Wear

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I'm helping a friend install display panels at a sporting goods manufacturer's new headquarters. The manufacturer has been eminentl...
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Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Survival at Sea

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A friend of mine mentioned that he would be doing some extended sailing in a catamaran of his own construction. He has done extensive voyage...

Elevated Storage

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Addendum: the black and white images are all from the U of Alaska, Fairbanks archives. I checked their website and there was no mention of ...
Thursday, February 28, 2008

Pt. Hope Kayak

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Not too long ago, I finished a Pt. Hope kayak. Above is a picture of the frame, finished except for a coat of red paint and a cockpit coamin...
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How Long is Long

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This is not SPAM. We're not talking manhood here. We're talking paddle length. Back about a decade or so, John Heath published an ...

Outrigger Canoe

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This is a picture of Matt in an outrigger canoe fashioned of salvaged floatation and a skin on frame canoe. The booms are salvaged 2 by four...