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go to school and check how big and strong a five year old really is build him a small boat - 18 - 20" bottom, 10' long that'll hold him 'till he gets up to 70 or 90 lb and won't wear him out trying to paddle it it's got to be fun and not work or he won't want to do it you wouldn't send him...

we don't match up scarf joints perfectly when we glue, but pull the pieces back about 1/32". That way you leave a gap that you cannot squeeze out the glue no matter how much pressure you use Never used limestone as filler but from what I've read, it should be OK. Just be sure you're used a...

picante sause ??? that stuff is made in new york city it needs tabasco or cayenne but then it's your breakfast, and you can put whatever you want on it

The old folks would often put what they called a batter board - for obvious reasons, so it would get battered up, at each end of their boats. It protected the leading edge of the sides and bottom from getting banged up. It was considered a replaceable, wear item. Much easier to replace a batter...

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Re: New Design Not enough deviation from flat to call it a five panel boat The norm was a three board pirogue - one for the bottom and one for each side. Old timers had access to plenty good wide, long boards. We have the access most of the time but finding a 24" planer without having to pay...

Re: New Design At the center of the boat, on the outside of the boards - maybe 1/4 or 3/8" The two 5" boards didn't go all the way to the stems. Don't have a pic from the outside but here's an inside pic. That shows the two narrower boards alongside the wider board

Ruger manufactures for their target market. The vast majority of folks - like me for instance - just want to hit squirrels and beer cans. If Ruger tricked out the 10/22 for the few folks that want to shoot a quarter at 100 yards, it would cost almost $1000 and their major market would be buying...

Re: New Design i'm certain the first Chitinacha boats were dugouts that had a rounded or soft chine as opposed to a hard chine. The blue boat is indeed plywood and yes you curve the bottom ribs and the plywood bottom follows. It does have a hard chine. We have tried something similar in plank...

Re: New Design The Chitimacha Indians built a pirogue with a slightly rounded bottom like that. Their reasoning was that it didn't suck in the mud, i.e. it didn't pull a vacuum in the mud like a flat bottom boat would. Here's the pic. It's the blue one. Unfortunately I don't have a pic of the...

14+" seat - i'm sure your knees like that also

The more you taper toward the stern, the less turbulence as the boat sheds water and the easier it will be to paddle. But you're likely adding a square stern for capacity/stability or the ability to hang a motor off the back. Every design parameter is a tradeoff or compromise in one quality for...

how 'bout this one http://www.notquitenigella.com/2009/10/ ... come-true/

looks like a skiff you gonna put a hundred mercury on the back?

The flexibility of spar varnish can be attributed to two of the ingredients. Resin. There are three types of resins used for modern spar varnish. The oldest and most flexible is phenolic resin. Alkyd resin is actually a polyester and has medium flexibility. Polyurethane is the least flexible...

sorry, didn't mean to confuse, try this explanation..... put a piece of window glass on a mattress and step on it - it will likely break. That's an extreme of a hard layer on a soft or more flexible substrate put a piece of glass on a flat tile floor and step on it -it will likely not break...

Reckon the use of a soft or hard finish depends on the substrate that you're using A harder or stiffer substrate will fair better with a hard varnish, while a less stiff substrate will fair better with a softer varnish Young's Modulus - a measure of stiffness - actually the ratio of stress to...

check out their website, it'll answer most of your questions http://wavewalkermn.com/ "How fast does it go? At a cadence 30-35 rpm (pedaling revolutions per minute) you will cruise at about 4 to 4.5 mph. Top speed for a well conditioned cyclist is 9-10 mph." "How deep should the water be...

mold on one side, vacuum bag on the other - parts come out slick as a baby's bottom

Here's my two cents, YMMV 24" bottom has been pretty much standard since the 50's when they started building with plywood. Same thing with 12" sides - everything came out of a 4' width. 24" was also pretty close to what the "old folks" used also on their planked pirogues. Big folks or folks...