kydocfrog

Okay, that didn't work. When I log in with my user name and password, it says invalid entry retry or register. When I try to reregister it says "user name already taken." Frank -- can you just clear me off the gallery so I can re-register there? DocA

Wow....that is absolutely neat. Very distinctive and logical. DocA

I still don't understand the gallery and photos. I went to open Barry's hatch photos and got "You don't have permission" so go away message. I get same thing in gallery. I registered once, I think. So I went to try to register in the gallery area again and get "Sorry user name is taken." Of course it is. It is mine. :? What gives here Somebody just posted the line "If there are no pictures, it doesn't exist." If I can't see the pictures, does that mean I don't exist... DocA technically challenged in KY.

Opps. Called "Progressing." In the lower picture, the splash coaming ends just an inch or two past where the picture is cropped. I figure some protection and still some ability to sit out if I need to. DocA

Looking good. Looking very good. Are your sails cut to stock design dimension? DocA

I have abbreviated ones. They should show in the posting I did called "making progress" DocA

Things progress. The coamings around the extended slot-top opening are progressing, although there are still some fit and finish details. The mast stub is fitted, and walking forward with the slot top gives full access to the mast as planned. The mast is glued up, but shaping and tapering is taking a bit longer than I hoped. And here she is sporting her green, white and buff paintjob. Sail material and trailer are on hand. BTW;how does everyone get such big full pictures up? By the time I cut things down to 800 x 600, heck, I loose just about the whole shot. I would have tossed in a picture of the mast, but it is more than 800 pixels long... DocA

My shop is a mess, the yard is a jungle, my work piling up. I sat at the office yesterday, internet on, images scrolling, and sun shinning outside and kept thinking "how can I sit here like everything is normal." It was, and still is, almost like some kind of survivor guilt. I'm a former Army logistics officer, with some feel at least for the desperately difficulty of mobilizing the kind of effort needed to roll the trucks. I've been out for years but somehow wonder "what should I be doing..." My boss just retired a few months ago from the Coast Guard, full Captain, with major river security and transportation background. He knows those folks flying the choppers and trying to hold back chaos. We just kind of sat and talked for a while. I'm sure he feels even more like somehow he shouldn't be warm and dry in a nice office. After 9-11, everyone said "Everything is different." But you could get your arms around 9-11. You could see it all at once, and you knew it would get fixed, and there was someone to blame. I think we responded wrongly, surrendering to fear and the agenda of demagogs, but you could understand it. You can't get your arms around this one. No one person can see it all at once. There is nobody to look to except ourselves as the wheels come off and we discover how thin and fragile the non-sustainable society we have constructed is and how brutal the consequences--social, environmental, cultural, personal and economic--can be. This, and our response as a society to it, will have a far more profound effect -- changing everything -- than 9-11 ever had. It is up to us all to determine if that response is postive or just more of the same short-term greed, quick fixes, near-sightedness, and self-delusion. Pray for the people. Pray for your friends and colleagues. Pray also for the Republic. We all have a lot of thinking to do. David Arnold Vice President for Academic Affairs St. Catharine College, KY

Actually that makes sense, although I seem to be better at drooling and dripping than rolling and tipping... :roll: I am going to have to think about the non-skid discussion. I tried a sample board with the sandy stuff mixed into the paint and it really looked awful. So far I haven't put any on the boat as a result. To wet to paint right now; will try to get some pictures of CGII's new livery up soon. DocA. Prayers for the folks on the coast.

Timely discussion for me.Thanks. I bought the wood for my mast today. A beautiful piece of clear, tight grained Douglas Fir, 2x8x12 foot with another matching hunk to laminate the lower piece. I'm planning on a four foot base and twelve foot main spar; adding just enough to play with the halyard blocks some. I'm still very seriously considering an older rig; boomless main, a single halyard, and a vang for peak control. The boomless main does keep the center of effort lower without the cranial threat factor. It is a nice piece of lumber. DocA

That's cool. I've seen some hickory axe handles, some with a rather elegant curve, that could make a decent tiller or emergency spare tiller too. Working on lucite portlights tonight. Bolt was too short without counterdrilling but may be long enough to make bow eye. Still trying to make a fall messabout Cheers. DocA

ohhhh....hmmmm...maybe spoke to soon. Actually, I was looking for eyenuts when I found the nominal 10" one. Will have to go home and measure. DocA

Re a discussion from a few weeks back about problems finding the long eyebolts, my local ACE stocks 10" eyebolts , 3/8th . Since ACE is probably pretty much a franchise stocklist, I would expect that most of them might have them in stock. DocA

CG II's previous builder installed the rudder box with a pintle and gudgeon set up. Looks great and strong as Babe the Blue Ox .(My daughter lives in MN, so I get to say things like that...) However. it does make the installation of the fairing flap or gasket or whatever it should be called across the gap between the keel extension and the rudder box a bit problematic, since the mounting bolts and brackets mean that their sides are no longer smooth and flush. How important is that flap? DocA

"Makes one think it's a marketing plan that soaks retail and sucks up to professionals." Gee...could something like that happen...I'm shocked... :shock: ...I'm really shocked and might even become disillusioned... Sigh. DocA

And a tip of the hat and a big thank you to John Turpin... :wink: ...I was starting to worry about bringing Charlie Girl II out in public. Here I sit, well along with several gallons of oil base primer that old standby Rustoleum (in three three colors plus a spot yellow trim) applied with the same techniques as developed by the Renaissance Masters...I tell you I was getting nervous. Actually, I am getting results that seem just fine with my galvanized cleats and minimum brightwork. The drips and runs give a nice prismatic effect when the light hits them right. I am a bit upset at the huge blister I had to cut out over a spot of poorly cured epoxy I didn't get sanded out correctly. Gotta try that vinegar thing. DocA; perfecter of the dog-food finish: Dribbles and Drips.

Whenever I try to paste a picture directly in from document folder, they are almost inevitably rejected because of size. I end up having to really cut stuff and do odd things to get them to post. Not one of life's major problems, I guess... DocA

Cool. So tell us about the mast. My next major challenge, I guess. DocA

What's ther current status on this? don't know if CG II will be ready, but it does give me something to shoot for... That's a pretty straight shot down from Kentucky for me. DocA

:shock: Fooey. I wish I had known that two weeks ago.... DocA

Ah. Just figured it out. DocA

The gallery still seems messed up. When I click, I get a "you do not have permission" message. Going in through the gallery, virutally nothing opens either. odd. DocA

I just picked up a trailer on ebay that I will go get this weekend. Things progress. Whe I get the trailer back, CG II is painted (white, large hunter green sheer stripe, yet to be finished bright rub rail) and ready to flip. I would be interested in seeing any pictures posted by folks who have done a keel guide mod or other adjustments to small trailers to cope with the Weekender underbody. Thanks in advance. DocA in Kentucky

Lesson number 4 has a certain resonance for me. Charlie Girl I, my old Cape Dory catboat, had this mast that had started life as a rather significant spruce tree and had lost little mass in its rebirth in nautical glory. Of course it had to be hauled up bodily, positioned, and dropped into the step well all while balancing desperately on the very eyes of the bow --either at the dock or on the trailer. It seemed a feature of my boating life that the THUNK the mast made when it dropped into the step would be immediately followed by a thin wiffff wiffff wiffffffff thhhplop-- the noise that either the peak halyard or the throat halyard, depending on which one I had fogotten to tie off, made as it whispered up through the masthead block and fell at my feet. That noise was followed by smothered snickering from the crew and a stiffled volley of military french from me. DocA

Horay for Mr.Smalser. The group's most agonizingly elegant craftsman speaking old, simple words. Another webgroup to check out on general small boat construction is duckworksmagazine.com and the various designer's sites linked from there which range from bigbox store dirt simple to incredibly elegant work like Welsford's designs. DocA Charlie Girl II