DeanHerring

Jeff, after studying your designs I might go with either the Shortshot or the Ravenswood. Are you thinking about a class this winter, spring, summer? Dean

I'm just not a kayak person yet. Maybe the canoe would work? Else I guess I can be had for kayaking model. Dean

I'd be up for doing the wineglass rowboat, I'd make some parts (drop in unit, transom, etc,) before hand if that would make it work. The trip from NC looks to be about 9 hours for me, Looking to add this skill to the glued lapstrake small sailboats i've been building. thanks, Dean

oh yeah - right - that's what was on the Precision - a kick up cleat-

so, do we also want to weight the rudder down as well? I thought I saw something about a line to keep the rudder down. Why would one want such a line if the idea is to have a kick-up rudder. I know I had a line to hold the rudder down in the Precision 185, thoughts? Dean

Thanks Richard - helps to make the cold go away up here! Dean

That's looking good John! Lapwing #7 is on strake #5 and everytime we look at her we comment on how big a 16 footer she is. Here in NC we are supposed to be in the lower 50's but this winter has been just cold for our area we can only get in the low 40's. But in NC we are used to this kind of stuff one day 40 the next day it will be 70. Dean

Tom, Do you think that "Disappears with any little scratch or rub and mildews" had anything to do with the conditions when you painted the boat = too hot, cold, dry, or humid? OR a bad batch of paint? Dean

I'm starting to wavier on the hull color - thinking about that Interlux Brightside Flag Blue - for all the look of it on the color chart it looks almost black. Strake number 5 is on... - we need warmer weather here. Dean

Tom, we will get some plans together to make that happen along the lines of one of our scheduled dates this summer perhaps. If you join up to the day sailors yahoo group you will get the schedule - else I can send it to you off line. I'd love to do something up this way to flush out all the local TSCA members to the lake at one time. Dean

OK - so this is a plug for the Carolina Sailing Club's new Day Sailors Venue which assuredly welcomes all traditional sailing craft and B&B Yacht sailors and their boats to monitor / join and sail about on the lakes near Raleigh, NC. Heck we might just get an inland B&B mess-about going with enough local sailors around. Ken Potts' CS17, Dawn and Paul Stewart's CS20, and myself (Dean Herring once Lapwing #7 is on the water) just about constitute a B&B fleet! Thanks - hopefully this was not over the top. Blame it on Ken he egged me on... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CSCdaysailors/ Thanks, Dean

and I can't spell garboards apparently 8)

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Dale, here is the color scheme: graphite on the bottom of the hull, CB and rudder, Brightside Matterhorn White up to the last strake, bright side Fire red on the last strake (where Tom has green), bright varnish top sides, black mast, seattle gray seats, Iterdeck gray non-skid under foot. Think of a tropical fish called the black ruby barb. Along with the staysail which is red white and black. Main and mizzen are white. Dean

Tom, John, Thanks for the weight clarifications = 240 pound for a 16 foot boat - good grief my Precision 15 was 450 pounds. Lapwing should be fast with all that weight gone. Thanks for your continued posting of pictures and lessons learned on Lapwing Blue Peter John. Can't wait for Herb and I to take a gone down east NC road trip to see Tom's lapwing. We've come up with a color scheme for #7 and will name her the Black Ruby. You got to say it like this though - arrhh - welcome aboard the Black Ruby.