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As a professional boat builder for more than thirty years my advise is to not use fir plywood, exterior or otherwise. I’ve taught several classes with kids and parents to build the Six Hour Canoe and to keep costs down we used exterior grade plywood. Despite the best efforts of prep almost all...

Glenn that stuff all around the car is called snert. We only got about 5”, but enough the cover the snert. Jim

Don’t have a guess on the car, but it’s snowing again in Maine just about an inch/hour by the looks of it. Two inches down and 6 more inches expected. Jim

I’m not disagreeing with you yknpdlr but it’s a way to learn. Jim

One can also buy plastic sextants for not too much money and with the addition of an artificial horizon you don’t need to be on the ocean. The plastic box in with my sextant is an artificial horizon. I credit Calvin Rutsrtum writing about sextants in Paradise Below Zero with getting me...

I was at a pot luck a couple of weeks ago and a friend of mine started talking about Scottish Flapjacks. I was curious wondering how they might be different from our pancakes/flapjacks so I went to the internet when I got home. It turns out they are an oat bar, oatmeal, fruit, nuts, seeds etc...

Sometimes I think I should reproduce this sign for my barn door. Jim

This is what a set of ships curves looks like if anyone is curious. Jim

I am way behind on getting in this thread. It seems I am not alone. In my mind obsolete just means I can afford it, they are still useful. Back in the seventies I was doing land surveying and natural resource work and use a planimeter often. When I moved away from that field I got into boats...

When I read the title I couldn’t help but remember this build where he puts two jet engines on his canoe, now those are thrusters. Jim

Backing up a couple post Sailsman and your new plane would be used for rolling bevels on laps streak planking. What are you going to build? Jim

Thank you for sharing Robin. Jim

Hoping for a speedy recovery on your hand surgery tomorrow Black Fly. Jim

Since the scenario is with no inwales I wonder if you could strap the yoke around the bottom of the canoe? Jim

I have a piece 15” wide 2” thick and 27” long. I traded something for it a couple of years ago and I’m not sure I’ll ever use it. Kind of a bad trade on my part I guess. If anyone wants to pay the shipping and a donation to a charity I’ll send it. Of course I’ll share pics of the piece if...

When I was living in a wall tent I had an Aladdin mantel lamp and it gave off wonderful light and heat. We seem to have a power outage at least once a year here in Maine and now that I think about it I should buy another one for times I’m not running the generator. Jim

I had a pair of Whites boots when I worked for the BLM doing survey work. Those were great boots, but they are gone now. I do still use an anorak I bought at LL Beans in 1971 when I was in college not far from the store. Jim

Those clothespins do the trick alright. Jim

Ok now I’m hungry. I was out to dinner last night and instead of a burger I got a chicken dish first time there so I went with something I don’t make at home. The table next to us the man ordered the burger and instead or one of those fancy toothpicks to hold it together like a normal restaurant...

I lived in Saranac Lake from ‘72 to ‘77 and left when we heard the Olympics were coming in the ‘80’s just didn’t want to see the changes. I did come back in the early ‘90’s after my divorce. It had changed but for the better I think. I spent 30 years living in the Hamptons as a worker bee and...