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Don Silsbe

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  • Birthday 12/01/1948

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    Tryon, NC
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    Boatbuilding, Sailing, Fishing, Rowing, Weaving, Camping, Travel, Fly Tying, Woodworking, Gardening, and Lutheran Theology. (Thank goodness I'm retired!)
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  1. And now the port side. I sure do love Russell Brown’s epoxy techniques.
  2. Thanks for sharing this sketch. It has several ideas I’d like to use in my refurb of an old 17.
  3. The starboard side has been sheathed in 4oz. now.
  4. That is exactly right! Here I am, trimming.
  5. You made the right decision. Graham told me a story a year or so ago. It was about the winning record of the Spindrift in local races. He said that one sailor came along with a stiffer mast, and started winning the races. Graham investigated, and discovered that the sail shape was better with this stiffer mast. He had sized the mast sections purely on ultimate strength, rather than sail shape. Once they upped the stiffness of the mast sections, that sailor’s advantage disappeared. So you are doing the right thing by going away from that flexible mast.
  6. Here’s a tour of the vaka construction. Brodie and I also flipped the vaka, and trimmed the c/b trunk.
  7. @Aphers— A sail with a bolt rope must be either up or down. You can’t stack it on the boom, like you’d do when (whilst) reefing or flaking it on the boom.
  8. The cockpit floor has now been glued down. The motor mount has also been glued in. It will also be filleted and taped to the aft deck.
  9. Today, I had to glue up a bunch of parts. I don’t like pumping, mixing, thickening, and mixing some more. I prefer to mix one big gob of goo. The problem is, of course, that a big gob of epoxy “exotherms”, and goes off before you can use it. I snagged a tip from a Russell Brown video. He employs an epoxy pallet. It is simply a scrap piece of plywood onto which he smears the goo. The stuff gets to spread out, and not get hot. His videos are on Offcenterharbor.com, which is a website I pay a subscription to. Brown has a series on working with epoxy that is excellent. There are many other videos that I watch again and again. It’s expensive, but worth it to me.
  10. I was just poking at you. I know how you feel about the Sea Pearl, the plusses and minuses.
  11. @Andy B— OR, maybe they are simply faster boats! If it were just a matter of sailing skill, we’d see more of a mixed fleet, wouldn’t we?
  12. Years ago, my brother had a cute little board boat, a Mossberg Mallard. He built a nifty storage box on the trailer to store the mast. Once, he forgot to properly latch the door, and the mast escaped. I was given the useless (without a rig) boat, and it took me YEARS to get a replacement. Every time I see spars stowed on the trailer, it brings all those memories back. Just be DAMNED careful, if you stow your sprits like this. Sure, for us, we would just make a new set. But you could end up ruining some sweet sailing plans that way.
  13. Yeah. Thanks for the confirmation photo. I had thought Roo had gone down with Dawn and Allan, to socialize and work as support crew. Good to get the confirmation.
  14. Looks like SOS has moved up in the pack. Am I right?
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