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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 […]
CB is the abbreviation for “Center of Buoyancy” used on Glen-L plans. The CB can be compared to the fulcrum of an in-balance teeter-totter. The CB is the longitudinal balance point of the underwater volume. Add weight aft of the CB and the boat will go down by the stern, forward and it will be […]
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 […]
While sitting at a counter in a restaurant, sandwiched (pun intended) between two guys using cell phones, it hit me. My, what changes have come to pass in the past few years. The reminiscing brought me back to some of the changes this small company Glen-L Marine Designs has gone through. We were taught that our […]
The other day a question arose as to what a dashed line meant on the plans. The answer, of course, was that it was a hidden line, in back of what is being seen. The reply “But how do you know that?” is a legitimate question. Perhaps, too often, we assume something is common knowledge. So a […]
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