Sunday, July 20, 2008

Genuine Eskimo Kayak For Sale

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Bob Hoerger of Palo Alto brought the following ad from the November 1940 issue of Pacific Motorboat to my attention: FOR SALE: Genuine Eskim...
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Skinboat Rendezvous

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We had a skinboat rendezvous yesterday in Alameda. Several skin boat builders brought their boats for review by each other and the general ...
Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Trinidad

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No, not the one in the Caribbean, the one in Northern California. This is where the Arcata crowd paddles. Trinidad Head, a big rock connect...

Stability, part 2

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Scroll down for stability part 1. This is stability part 2. The stability of kayaks is not just an attribute of the boat, but an attribute...

Arcata Boat Show

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I went up to the Arcata Wooden Boat show in June. Just publishing photos now. Modern boats don't much impress me. I guess it's th...

Driftwood Projects, Part 1

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Here's a handy dandy kayak rack I made out of driftwood. The driftwood happend to be two by six planks of redwood that were floating ar...
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Arcata Kayak Building Class

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I did a Greenland kayak building class up in Arcata, CA. For those of you not into CA geography, Arcata is on the north end of Humboldt Bay...

Wolfgang and the Whale

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I did a boat building class up in Arcata, CA. First day I got there, I joined some of the local paddlers on the water. About 15 minutes int...

It's Been a While

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It's been a while since I posted here. I'm back. Been busy actually doing stuff and blogging has taken a back seat. Hard to blog ...
Wednesday, May 14, 2008

On the stability of small boats, part 1

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This is not going to be a detailed discussion on the stability of small boats. I will actually write something for my website and it will b...
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On explaining stuff

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Many years ago I had a job as a writer of technical manuals. If a machine was novel or its working wasn't common knowledge, the manual u...
Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Today's Shipwreck

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Boats don't last forever. Sooner or later they die, and when they do it's often right in the water in an inconvenient place. Often...
Monday, May 5, 2008

Boys Build Boats

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Some pictures of boats being built. A Greenland one and an Aleut one.
Thursday, May 1, 2008

May Day

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My wife just informed me that today is May day. In many parts of the world, this is a holiday, kind of like Labor Day in the US. I suspect...

How's the Book Coming, Part 2

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For those of you paying attention to the title of the post, I skipped directly from part 0 to part 2. There is no part 1. The part zero com...
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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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