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Sumer is icumen in, Lhude sing Cuccu! or Life is too short to not build a boat! Editor’s Note: Article submitted by boatbuilder Bob Spring, rebirth, creation, boatbuilding; and Paul is looking forward to picnic by the water with his boat I suppose there is something to be said for a brand new shiny fiberglass […]
Following on from the weekly newsletter where it recommended to drape wet towels overnight, I bought a 2.5m (10 ft) section of drainpipe and connected it up to my wife’s curtain steamer using some duct tape. I let it run for thirty minutes after steam was coming out of the other end and the longitudinals […]
It is arguable whether work is the curse of the drinking classes, as Oscar Wilde would have us believe, but it is certainly the curse of the amateur boat builder. The requirement to earn a living (in order to pay for the thing in the first place), and the associated need to travel frequently, turned the process […]
The GLEN-L EPOXY Encapsulation System depends on total encapsulation (coating and sealing) of all wood surfaces. Sometimes it is easiest to build the boat first and then coat the entire structure at one time. In other cases, it is easier to coat individual members or sub-assemblies at the workbench before they are in position, when it […]
This is the story of the A.T.Frog as recounted by boatbuilder Pete Carpenter of Payson, Arizona. The Frog began life in November of 1995 as Glen-L Dinky #001 of the Santa Cruz River Boatworks in Tucson, Arizona. A person familiar with the Santa Cruz river in Tucson will tell you that the river is dry […]
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