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5 hours ago by πΊπΈ Chum444 (
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Quite an interesting build. Your skills are admirable. Thanks for the tip about fenders; itβs a really good one.
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8 hours ago by π§πͺ hermank (
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This is real craftsmanship. Very nice model
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π¬ Re: Launch update
8 hours ago by π¨π¦ Ron (
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Super Fenders!
Love to spend a day with you in your workshop! It would be fun. Ron ▲
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π¬ Re: A side trip...
7 hours ago by π¨π¦ RodC (
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When i was a kid in Southern Ontario in the 1950s we used untaxed farm fuel in Grandpa's 5-1/2 h.p. Johnson outboard. Why would one voluntarily pay road tax on fuel for marine use?
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9 days ago by πΊπΈ Chum444 (
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I recall boats of this era using sounding sticks to determine fuel levels. However your approach is MUCH more interesting. Excellent craftsmanship.
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π¬ Re: A side trip...
9 days ago by π¨π¦ Ron (
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Cool π!!!
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π¬ Re: Yet to be named launch
10 days ago by πΊπΈ Chum444 (
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This will be yet another of your masterful builds. Looking forward to progress & perhaps seeing it in Scarborough.π
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11 days ago by π¦πΊ peterd (
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Looks like she has really nice lines. Looking forward to seeing your progress.
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π¬ Re: Yet to be named launch
11 days ago by π¬π§ MotoPilot (
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What a lovely looking traditional launch π
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π¬ Re: Yet to be named launch
12 days ago by πΊπΈ Black Shoe (
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Chapter II
I am not a very fast builder, and as a result tend to have a build well along before I post anything so I don't give the impression that a project has been abandoned The launch is farther along than it appears, so I'll bring it up to speed quickly with just a couple of entry's then if you'll bear with me I'll keep the progress current with subsequent posts although they may be a few days apart. Several months ago a neighbor brought over some cherry cut-offs that he came across asking could I use any of it. Like this launch hull I had put it in the "stash" to be used at a later date. It would seem with this hull, the cherry, and some other bits and pieces the later date has arrived.π The images below are pretty much self explanatory with just a few exceptions. Photo 1 I like the black hull's contrast with the cherry better than the white. 2. If you don't use all your clamps you didn't use enough...if you did use them all you don't have enough. 3, 4, & 5. It would have been easier to fabricate a brass support for the bottom of the rudder so the gudgeons and pintles didn't take all the strain, but my masochistic nature decided an oak skeg extension would be much more trouble. Cutting the required amount out of the molded skeg and fitting the oak while allowing the wheel radius was an exercise. Filling the inside area with epoxy then drilling and tapping the filler allowed two flathead machine screws to hold the skeg in place without any potential for water seeping into the hull. 6 &7. There will be a narrow side deck running along the open cockpit so some small screw eyes were threaded into blocks which were glued to the clamp strake. These eyelets will carry the wires from the forward battery back to the "engine room". ▲
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π¬ Re: Yet to be named launch
13 days ago by π§πͺ hermank (
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Well known writer !!! This i phone drives me crazy all thΓ© Time suggesting similar Words π©π©π©π©
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π¬ Re: Yet to be named launch
13 days ago by π§πͺ hermank (
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I like your story and how you got it. It read like Γ book of Agatha Christie the famous well j OWN weiger ππππ
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