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This a dinning room and a Firebug, which is a boat, and wooden, is been buit in it. Don

First try was to make an hollow wooden mast. Birdsmouth, Parana Pine. The thing was beautiful but quite heavy and cracked in a poorly made glue joint. Then I went to an aeronautical junkyard in Campinas, and was lucky enough to find the right tube to the lower section. Middle section is not T-6 and upper section is wooden. Worked fine 'till now. If you

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Garry is right. Wire can tear the delicate ply edges in stress areas. The slightly big holes for the ties will be covered up anyway by the epoxy fillet and tape.

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bassoan, Welcome aboard! I had built a Core Sound 17 and a couple of Diva

Thank you Steve. I'm sure you'll be ready soon for your Diva 2. Good luck and go for it!

Hi Tom, yes, the second Diva was already built with a first class spanish cedar ply, no voids. But the source now is "there" in S

Hi, long time no see. I don't post here very often but now I have a couple of pics Id like to share. I moved from Campinas, Sp - southeast Brazil, near S

Jonas, I'm pretty sure that eucalyptus plywood mechanical properties are good enough. Everything will be epoxy coated and the hull exterior probably glass sheated too. Okoume is far more rot prone and "soft" then eucalyptus. I had built my Touch

Coco, I don't want to hijack your thread but I can't resist: "Ol

Little late for Christmas but a Happy and Prosperous 2006 for everybody. All the best from Ricardo, Karina and Tiago.

oh, problems...around here sweating is what happens to you - not to the hull skin - all year round. ok, in south southeast areas 90% of the year...but it happens and it's a pain. insulation and not heating seems to be the answer to me. and it's always a paliative not a final solution.

hey, take a look at this http://www.francois.vivier.info/albums/album_meaban_b.html the casting sequence pics makes it looking so easy to do it

rob, then you have your halyard running inside the luff pocket? ric oh, now I saw the halyard running outside the pocket in the "spaghetti" close up pic. it seems a cool set up for me...

Charlie, Scary (sharp) collection you got. Can you name me a source for those tiny trimming planes? Thanks, Ric

What Brent said about the bulkheads. But I think the main problem is you can't get the compound curves that make that deck so nicely shaped without the hatch openings. My hatches only leaks a drop. Or two. Three. Four. Five... 8)

Thanks for the coments, everybody. Graham and Rob, I'm not going to cut the mizzen mast down cause I have a very young crew member that will probably be up and down the cockpit, non-stop, while we try to sail. I'll be more relaxed with the mizzen the way it is. I forgot to mention the Imagestation album. Please, try http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=4290747607

Then one day, after a long long time, the boat meets the water. And yes, it's great, it's sweet, well balanced, stable and - at the same time - vivid in light airs. All this and pretty, too. Absolutely positive first impressions. Graham, thanks for the great boat the CS 17 is! One day I'll post better pics. For now that's it:

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Graham, the CS 17 (Touch

I'm not sure if Imagestation are working here. Let me try attach a couple of pics. Let's see: [attachment over 4 years old deleted by admin]

This is the brazilian Diva waiting to be finished, in a hot hot hot summer day... 8)

That's it: 2004 is over! Fair curves riding in fair winds for everybody! Cheers!!! 8)

Good job, Richard. Pretty nice blue hull, pretty pics and what a place to sail ... 8) Fair winds, Ricardo