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ChrisObee

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  1. I would use a table say and cut a grove in the side of you mast the length of the blocks, lay your wires within and fill with expoxy and wood flour. Or you epoxy some shims in there and knock them down afterward.
  2. I do like your boats. You've a good eye. I bought your book, very instructive. I very much enjoyed understanding a building style so different from what I have practiced. I may build one.
  3. Well they say that art and genius and madness are tied together.... I think I'd put in a few reef points. You might consider doing Polytarp sails for your prototype. You could get a complete set of sails for right around a hundred dollars.
  4. Perhaps I've missunderstood you intentions. Are you really planning on doing a cat ketch version on a kayak/ trimaran? and you want to use the rig from a CS20? I've seen the rigs that they put up on most of the kayak/trimarans they seem much smaller than what you are planing.
  5. Sorry I am in Buffalo and out of contact other than from my iPod.
  6. Yes there is still a problem with BYYB. AVG warns of some sort of exploit. Its not a virus
  7. I think its a little small and it bit slow for its mission but it seems to have all the design criteria that folks beg for in this sort of microcruiser. Its tough, water ballasted, trailerable, has high freeboard, a kind of permanant wooden dodger, a simple reefable sail plan. I think it was just bad luck that neither scamp made it to the finish.
  8. Two Scamps set out one quit near CP1 not sure why, the weather was not very nice. The other Scamp made it to Florida Bay only to wander out of the channel and got caught in the seagrass as the wind blew the water out of the bay. They spent two or three days waiting for water to come up. It never did. They were rescued from the boat by the park rangers. A week or more later they retrieved thier boat. They did not finish, they were not alone in that, close to 50% of the boats did not finish in 2011. All the reports that I heard performance wise was that the scamp is a very seaworthy boat well suited to rough weather and simple to sail. They are not fast boats. They were the back of the pack in the Monohull class. Here are links at duckworks site to an account of the EC 2011 aboard one of the scamps. Part One: http://www.duckworks...ndrew/index.htm Part Two http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/11/outings/andrew/index2.htm
  9. Rather the opposite I should think. I'd be carefull the first time out.
  10. Suddelnly its working... I wonder what I did wrong.
  11. You would have to really want to go under that bridge. I wonder why they did.
  12. I may just have to go win7.... The trouble is that I'm cheap and its not boat related.
  13. You could use a bail that would at least put the screws at a right angle to all possible stress.
  14. I prefer only to follow selected forums. I tried to set the filter by forums to just the ones that interest me but they don't seem to stick. It allows me to select and then I hit save. The dialog box goes closes but my experiance does not change.
  15. What you ask is beyond the scope of a forum response. A single book is probably not sufficient. People study and gain experience over years to be a yacht designer.
  16. The www.bateau.com folks are in Florida.
  17. What was it about the "Dog Bones" that made you struggle? Why were the fenders superior?
  18. Start small, work clean, it's not rocket science. I confidently predict that you will do fine. If there is one thing that I have learned in making a boat is that I worry too much and its rarely the bit that I have agonized over that causes me the most difficulty.
  19. I am building a Bateau.com CV16 caravelle.
  20. I don't really have a spot in mind. This side of Cleveland is pretty much as far as I would go for a day trip. I would probably attend anything that you had as close as Sandusky Bay. I have a dream of doing a sort of EC style event centered on the Lake Erie Islands. My boat is about 80% done and I'm hoping that a good hard build session in early July will yield a sail boat.
  21. You should come to our end of the lake with one of your events. I looks to me as if you favor the pittsburg side...
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