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SCAMP #243: Mast, boom, and yard - making some expensive shavings
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The story of my SCAMP sailboat build. For more information on the design, see www.smallcraftadvisor.com. Saturday, August 16, 2014. Mast, boom, and yard - making some expensive shavings. A couple posts ago I talked about installing the gunwales and carlins on the hull, and discussed the problems I was having with the epoxied scarf joints giving way under the heat of the steam. To avoid the problem when installing the carlins, I wanted to get those parts in one piece. Then I made some sawdust. Here ar...
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SCAMP #243: March 2015
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The story of my SCAMP sailboat build. For more information on the design, see www.smallcraftadvisor.com. Sunday, March 29, 2015. Applying sail numbers - what worked, what didn't. This weekend I checked off one of the most venerable items from my to-do list - applying the sail numbers to my Neil Pryde sail. I think I've had this on the list for about a year, and decided to check it off. I taped down a couple corners so they didn't move around on me. Then using the tape as a hinge, lifted the decal. Then s...
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Lingering Lunacy : February 2015
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A record of, and ruminations on, the building and enjoyment of my boats. Sunday, February 22, 2015. UNA's winter "To Do List" is actually shrinking. Most of the tasks have been subtle refinements like loops for the reefing crinkles along with rings and snap hooks for easier use of that gear. The previously used cunningham hooks dropped out repeatedly when reef lines weren't tensioned. Flailing hooks while raising or lowering the sail are never good. Scratch that off the List. First try: angled sockets.
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SCAMP #243: October 2014
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The story of my SCAMP sailboat build. For more information on the design, see www.smallcraftadvisor.com. Thursday, October 30, 2014. Shaping skegs using router and template. With the skegs rough cut and laminated, the next step was to bring them down to final dimension. Keeping the curves fair and the right shape to fit the hull, and keeping both skegs identical was a daunting prospect. Here's a shot of the nice curve towards the stern. And shaped it to final dimension with my Shinto rasp. Looking good&#...
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elsah boat company: Mississippi River Skiff
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011. We are making great progress on the Mississippi River Skiff stations. It will be our biggest boat to date at over 18 feet. After our experience using steel stations for the Niangua canoe, we knew the advantages of the steel forms made it worth all the trouble to fabricate them. Here are the stations during fabrication:. We are converting the offsets to inch measurements. Also we are using some trigonometry to figure. Labels: American Small Sailing Craft. To talk boats, you can...
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elsah boat company: Sea Horse comes alive
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012. Sea Horse comes alive. After a long sleep the Johnson 25 woke right up. We cleaned out one of the steel tanks by putting in a couple pounds of nuts and bolts and shaking it up. This scoured the rusty bits and sludge. We then emptied it out, rinsed it out with some kerosene, then heated it up with a gas torch to burn out the nasty residue. A couple pin holes turned up so we brazed them then repainted the bottom. Next we filled up a trash can with water and crossed our fingers.
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elsah boat company: Sea Horse !
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Monday, January 30, 2012. Through good luck and clean living we happened upon a well cared for, garage find. It is a 1970, 25 horsepower Johnson Sea Horse. It is a manual start and has high compression. I'm slightly scared of it. The largest outboard I've had was a 6hp. My favorite was a Yamaha 2.5. So this one is ten times as powerful at least. Someday it will make the Mississippi River Skiff fly. We are getting close to sea trials for the skiff. It will be strictly oars for the near future. We are maki...
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elsah boat company: Mississippi River Skiff: Christening
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Friday, March 16, 2012. Mississippi River Skiff: Christening. We christened the skiff this weekend and had great fun trying it out with the Johnson 25. The 1970 Johnson is a little more than is needed to drive the hull (an 8hp would be plenty). But it is sporty! We did get a little rowing in and tried rowing one oar per station. It worked well. We used the sculling hole with a paddle as a rudder. Here are some photos and a video:. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Fun on the Missouri and Mississippi!
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elsah boat company: Mississippi River Skiff update: Oar leathers
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Thursday, February 2, 2012. Mississippi River Skiff update: Oar leathers. We needed some oar leathers for our new oars. So I drove to S and T Leather in St. Louis city. The place is a wholesale supply and has a small city sales area. We just needed a small bit of tanned leather, some artificial sinew, and a punch for this project. It was easy work with this punch. It cuts in 4 perfect holes. I just drew a straight line 1/4 inch in on each side of the cut leather and punched holes down the line. The exter...
