Tom Lathrop

John, Something simple with meaning for you is my suggestion. Of course there is Lazarus.

Ray, Agreed. Having used many of these bailers since Paul Elvstrom first made them, I have never had one that was leak free when the boat is stopped. There are no seals on the little trap and is is bound to leak and was mever claimed to be otherwise. Still it is a very worthwhile addition to any small sailboat capable of sailing at about 3 knots or more. In addition to the auto bailer, I recommend a drain in the transom for towing and storing in a bow up position. The transom drain on any proper tender will be above the waterline when at rest with no load and will keep the boat empty when towing.

First, where was it placed when you got the boat? In the old days, most ran it over the top near the motor mount with no hole in the transom. Put it where you want to. There is no rule. many of the old pitots, and mine was one of these, used a through hull unit through the bottom near the transom. Disadvantage of these relative to the flip ups, is that there is more tendency to get jammed in beaching, etc. I have to admit that I use a GPS on Scamp, although there is a period Airguide speedometer on the dash. I'll get around to it one day and will

Garry, Good on you. Brass monkey cold wind from nothwest today. Hope Gaham gets the woodstove going today. You were bailing with your hand! Did you install an Andersen bailer? No sailing dinghy should be without one. Not too late if you didn't. Happiness is a good breeze and a bailer going gurgle, gurgle, gurgle.

Yeah john, I had to eventually "suggest" that our two sons take up other residence after college too. That seems to almost be the norm nowadays. No problems though. They just needed a nudge and took it in good form.

Having spent some time among sampans, I wondered if sanpan was something different. The round hulled one is different from normal though.

Richard, You are having way too much fun. What do you find to be handling differences between the sleeve luff and sail track?

Mike, I think I have seen some of her work. Beautiful stuff. The one above is the only one I have made. The cedar is eastern incense and was from the knarly base of a very old tree which showed some wavy patterns. What I have not seen is any western cedar with the colors she was able to find. All the western red we see is mostly rather bland and none of the light color sapwood. Guess you have to be close to the source.

John, I did an intarsia picture a while back. You may have seen it on the west porch when you were here. It's made from ash, cherry, walnut, pine and carvings of man, pennant and bird are dogwood. Dogwood is the best local carving wood, even better than tupelo as it will not split easily and holds detail well. Sorry about the double photo. Novice geek at work.

That is the man. I took the photo without flash in fairly low light so he is kind of blurred. At night after a day of building, we both get kind of blurred anyway.

Here is Skimmer with the cabin bulkhead in place and a temporary mold in place for the lower edge of cabin sides.

Everyone should note that this fund was not solicited by Graham or Carla. It was started spontaneously by forum members to support the B&B EC effort.

I had no problems with handling the masts on the Bay River Skiff and the CS 17 masts should not be much more difficult. On the other hand, I am planning on building another boat and it will have a tabernacle on the main mast. I seldom disagree with Gordy, but once the tabernacle is built, there are no serious complications that I know of. For us older and weaker, formerly agile sailors, the tabernacle looks like a good option.

Charlie has it right on the offset CB. All of Graham's boats that have a protective keel have the CB offset. Allows the keel to be continuous which keeps it from hanging up on rollers in launching/retreiving, protects the CB and trunk when dragging on the beach and is stronger. NO disadvantages that we have found. The halyard will be used as a running backstay. Turned the boat rightside up today for the last time.

Looking great and all ready to drop over the side but where are the lee cloths?

Turned the boat over and started work on fairing and taping seams. The photo show that the bow has a fine entry. Fiberglass goes on tomorrow.

Most boating guys I know find that Garmin GPS work best for them. I have had two and think they are more user friendly than others I have tried. If I need another it will have color which is much more easy to read than B&W. The larger the screen the better. Battery life is a big issue also but the newer ones are better on this. Get the mounting bracket and a power cord to allow running off the boat battery . Most will have fixed mark locations and allow for entering detailed charts of selected areas in addition to general charting of the whole of North America. Graham has a Navman with touch screen and color with a large screen for the size of the unit. Looks very good to me and you should give it serious consideration also.

All good advice above but I suspect you may have read Devlin wrong. I will need to check his book because that has never been my experience. I have had epoxy to run from compressed joints where mostly sawdust was used. This was a special case and not to be taken in a universal sense.

John, We on the southeast coast can empathize with you in restoration from long power outages and storms. Hope nothing was lost that cannot be replaced easily. Our mantra that works well is such things is "it's just stuff". No water and mud I hope. Make a nice toddy and have a great Christmas

That's cool Barry

Depends on what is meant by "strength": rigidity, ultimate breaking strength, elongation, repeated cycle failure, etc.? Biaxial cloth is non woven so the fibers run straight in layers instead of woven over and under their opposites as in woven cloth. This means that in order to bend, the fibers of biaxial immediately come under tension which makes this material far more rigid than woven cloth. The woven cloth must stretch as a unit before the individual fibers straighten enough to come under tension so it remains much more flexible. Ordinary woven tape has been proven good for seams and sheathing in small boats for many years but does little to stiffen any structure for the above reasons. When stiffness is desired or one heavy layer is easier to place than many thinner ones, biaxial can be useful. Using glass fibers at 45 degrees across a chine will certainly make a difference to laying at 90 degrees where only half the fibers cross the seam. Just how much and what kind of difference is somewnat controversial. I know of no source of objective tests that have been made. I think the 45 degree layup is better but don't have any proof.