Frank Hagan
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I have always heard that you are not suppose to paint "green" wood ? :wink: Hello there. I am new to this stuff' date=' but the builder of this boat invited me here. He said I would become addicted to boats if I visited this site.[/quote']
RUN! RUN AS FAST AS YOU CAN!
Capt Jake has been known to allow others around him get sucked into this ... well, somehow "hobby" doesn't seem to do it justice. Obsession fits better. Most of us try to protect the innocent, and invite them over for sanding, but not the launch. Especially not the launch! Once you launch a boat, you'll never look back.
Its sad really. But you're welcome to pull up a "moaning chair" and join in.
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I'm playing with the script to display a selection of boat building books on our Bookstore Page. Its not pretty yet, and certainly not finished, but when I entered a search for the long-out-of-print Amphora by Peter Stevenson, I got a page of 6 dealers selling the book, from $3.00 to $150.00. $150 :!:
Now, its a fun book, and it does have a very young Mike Stevenson pictured in it, but $150!
I also searched for "Sailboats You Can Build," Peter's book that includes the first Skipjack, and its available used from $8.95 to $23.53. So its worth checking the "used" links when you're looking for books.
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My Gallery now shows up on Netscape 4.x ... I had to change the style of the page, so its ugly, but it shows up. It will take a little while to load with a dial up connection, so be patient ... Netscape doesn't handle tables very well, and all the formatting within picture albums are in tables. On my system, it takes a full 4 seconds to load just the index page (about twice as long as with more modern browsers).
Netscape still errors out on Mark Hughes' photos for some reason. Mozilla and IE process the pages fine, but Netscape 4.x gives a "Bad Request" error. Still haven't figured that one out.
If anyone has Netscape 6 or 7, please let me know if it works with those browsers. Click this link: My Gallery to open the My Gallery pages in a separate window.
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Frank the gallery picturs still don't load with netscape 4.7 :cry: . I don't have any problems as I have switched over to mozilla and that works.
I'll have to continue working with it from home, where I have Netscape 4.7.
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Nope, still can't display the "My Gallery" page with Netscape 4.79. Looks like it loads it and does some kind of decode (java?), then just displays a blank white page with the "Document: Done" message on the status bar at the bottom of the window.
John M.[/quote']
I tried another thing ... can someone with Netscape 4.x see if the My Gallery pages show up.
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I uploaded 105 new Avatars for your posting pleasure. An Avatar is an image that appears under your name. They are in the categories and also listed separately in the "New021303" folder.
I also increased the maximum size to 120 x 120 pixels and 8192 bytes.
You can choose an Avatar from our selection by using the Profile menu, or upload your own image not greater than 120 x 120 and 8192 bytes.
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Welcome back Joe! :thumbsup:
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Frank' date='
Nope, still can't display the "My Gallery" page with Netscape 4.79. Looks like it loads it and does some kind of decode (java?), then just displays a blank white page with the "Document: Done" message on the status bar at the bottom of the window.
John M.[/quote']
Thanks for checking for me. There's no Javascript that I know of (at least not in my code!) I did find out where I can download a copy of NS 4.7, so that should make it easier to figure out. I was hoping my open tag was it.
It may be the fact that the entire Gallery is within a table, and Netscape has always been bad with tables. I'll have to try some alternates once I d/l the 4.7 browser and try it.
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The MSN groups use a really big URL to point to the pictures. If you have it displayed on screen, and right click and choose "properties", you'll see just a part of the URL. If you go to highlight it with the mouse, starting at the beginning, IE will scroll and you'll see the full URL:
http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0TQDeAgkXX2urp!MgNey18MVt3vkuZfOdfHYVaYFl73Bkd9IS7frn!vk9nsAtQw24Y*9pu2*pKQ7yNDNTzENVEP*7d7HvOyDI83ADLKWXTxILtCsM!Tmobg/P2110695.JPG?dc=4675409299263173356
Wow! That's a long URL! Copy it to the clipboard using CTRL-INS or right-click*copy.
To display one of those links in a forum message, click the IMG button, paste the URL in, click on "Close Tags" and then preview the message to make sure it works. You can't put that URL in the "Add an Attachment" box, because you aren't uploading it to our server, we're displaying it from MSN's server. Here's my try, clicking the IMG button, pasting the URL, then clicking "Close Tags":
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A pirate walks into a bar, and the bar tender notices he has a ship's wheel tucked into his pants.
"What's that ship's wheel doing tucked into your pants?"
"AARGH! It's drivin' me nuts!" :pirate:
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One year, eight months and a day.
And I don't have cold weather to blame either. I live in a moderate area where there are absolutely no days where its too cold to epoxy, or work in the shop.
But I don't hold the record for taking the longest. Charlie's Procrastinated Sailboat is the longest on record that I know of. Got the plans from Stevenson Projects for $10 in "1981 or 1982" after seeing the article in Popular Science and launched on April 24, 2001. He's a pretty funny guy, with a web page that is a classic.
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Think I have the Gallery problem solved too. My mistake, actually ... I had an extra tag that I didn't close :oops:
BAD! BAD! BAD FORUM HOST! :splat:
Anyway, those of you with Netscape 4.x, please take a look at the My Gallery pages and see if you see photos there now.
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Hey Paul,
Found the problem for the forum script. The line that inserts the image does so while in a block of text with the "span" tag (a formatting tag for stylesheets). Netscape chokes on it. So I have to change the line that reads:
<img src="{URL}" border="0" />With this line:
</span><img src="{URL}" border="0" /><span class="postbody">Netscape, because it doesn't handle the <span> tags correctly, has to have the extra code added in. See the close of the tag: </span> and the re-opening of it again: <span>? Just to insert an image? It's unnecessary, redundant, bad coding, and worthy only of a mega-corporation such as AOL-Time Warner to force us to do that. If Microsoft is the devil, AOL-Time Warner are the anti-christ :evil:
The forum software only had the image loading in one place, so it was easy to fix; to fix the other pages (Gallery, etc.) I have to go through my templates and see where its happening. I hope its only in a few places, but we'll see tonight. I may be up late! :roll:
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Now on to the Gallery people to tell them how to fix their software!
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Well, they look good to me.
How do they look to the Netscape 4.7 users?
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The older messages may not re-format correctly, but someone add three images to this thread so we can see if I've fixed the "overlapping images" problem that Netscape 4.7 users were having (I'm at work, so I can't upload images).
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Check and see if it works better now.
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Its surprising how well a circular saw with a thin kerf carbide blade can cut curves in plywood. With 1/4 or 3/8" ply, its very easy to do.
I've done it both ways ... with a cheap Craftsman and then a Black and Decker jig saw and then with a good circular saw. For me, the circular saw wins hands down.
I always found the amount of vibration with a jig saw makes it torture to cut long curves, and the up-down action of the blade tends to tear up the wood even with the right blade. But I've always had cheap jig saws, and I understand the better ones (Bosch, etc.) are a joy to use.
Based on that, my guess is that you would find using a circular saw with a thin kerf carbide blade a better choice.
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Got a link to the jig plans or are they hardcopy somewhere...I went over to our local "Big-book-store" last night and it seems they are remodeling and the Building and tools section has gone from about 10 shelves to 2 shelves for the time being :cry: I was not a happy camper...
Bill
I have it at home ... its either in a book or a magazine I have. I saved it so I should be able to find it (that's not always the case though!)
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Looks like I'll just pick up a blade the first time around...If there is any money left in my wallet later this month I'll probably know better by then if I really need any thing else. I doubt I'll need any mobile base for it. My shop area is so small that once I figure out exactly where it's going to go' date=' it will probably have to stay in that spot. I could always build a base too. I like the tenon jig idea. But thinking about it, I'd better watch the cash for a bit and save the extra toys for later. Thank's everyone for your input on it. Tommorrow I go to pick it up. I'll let ya know what happens (and of course, have a few more questions re: tuning
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I bought a tenoning jig, the heavy Delta one, that was on sale. Its nice, and I have used it. I have found several articles with plans to build ones that would work as well (and for much less than the $85 I paid for mine).
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Graeme' date=' I have the same problem - I'm using Netscape 4.79 (Yep I was wrong when I thought it was Netscape 6 ...)
I wouldn't have a clue if its the settings on this machine or not, but I have noticed that it doesn't do it on any other forum of this type though.
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I'll have to ask about it again then. This implementation of the forum script is just about as bare bones as it gets, with only the picture posting mod added to it. And NS 4.x users also can't see the Gallery, which is a different script entirely (but still PHP version 4x.)
BTW got the port sides on my boat and have dry fitted half the starboard. Its been to hot work on the boat this weekend though, we had 41 degrees celsius (~106F)yesterday, which was probably more like 50 (~122F) in the shed. Oh for some snow
I'm not even going to tell you guys about the weather here the last few days. As usual, I'm not sailing ... so it may as well be too cold or too hot! I really have to get back on the water soon ....
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This question "has legs". Was also wondering what a boom gallows was when Frank compared it to a radar arch. What's a radar arch? And I still can't picture a boom gallows.
Leave it to me to offer an explanation more confusing than the original term!
Here are a few pics that show different boom gallows. Craig' date=' I've seen these homemade with pipe and wood. Johannah, the one that is forward of the hatch looks more like a radar arch, a high arch above the cockpit on powerboats where they put the radar unit. Hunter Sailboats started putting "radar arches" over their hatchs and cockpits and putting main sheet travelers on them a few years back, sending the sailing purists into fits of hysteria. Now you see them all the time.
But a boom gallows does what these three examples do ... same job as the boom crutch, but its permanently attached to the stern (usually) and catches the boom when you ease the halyards.
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The Freud blade is actually made in Italy.
Well, that's good! I like the Italians better than the French (the Italians know how to fill up a plate, not arrange little tidbits of food on the plate so the "presentation" is more important than the food!)
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I think I'm going to go with the Jet 10" Contractors saw. ($549.00) I went into my local Woodworkers warehouse yesterday and drooled around the place. The saw' date=' from what I can see, Is just as good as the delta, and actually is a little heavier in steel. It will cut all the same cuts. I think on the real high end, Delta would be my choice, but I feel Jet will be just a bit more bang for the buck in the mid range saws. I haven't read a bad review yet. Assembly according to some, can be frustrating, but I figure that's a one time thing so I can handle it.[/quote']
That's the saw I bought. It comes complete, but there are two things you might think about getting: one of those thin kerf Freud combo blades we've been talking about and a mobile base (that is, if you decide to move it around!)
But don't go nuts with the mobile base ... they can run up to $100, and I think are probably a big margin item for the stores to make up for the skinny margins on the tool itself. Every now and then Harbor Freight has the mobile base I use for $20 ... you use 2" hardwood for rails, as its just the corners, two casters and the lever you step on to allow the saw to move.
But, if you are not going to have to move the saw often, just grab the blade! And don't worry about putting it together, it takes a while but the instructions are good, the fit and finish of the parts is excellent, and everything goes together just like it should (at least that was my experience).
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