Laminating is the 20th century version of scarfing – making a bunch of smaller pieces of wood into one bigger one that is the size or shape we need. In this case, the stem is laminated from a number of smaller, thinner strips of sapele that will be hugely easier to work with than tryingContinue reading “Laminate”
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Raw materials
A trip to Delaware County Supply yields most of the wood (white oak and sapele) we’ll need to for early stages of construction. Out of a few hundred pieces we examine, only a couple dozen make the cut for inclusion (which makes me wonder about what the rest is going to be used for). BackContinue reading “Raw materials”
What makes boats expensive?
We get a first glimpse of this today when the first two attempts to make the head ledges – front and aft ends of the centerboard case – turn out to be failures. Third time finally gets it right, and get started on making some supports for the sides of the case
Boatbuilding Step 2 (and 1)
Take some really big pieces of wood and turn them into slightly smaller, smoother pieces of wood. In this case, it’s mahogany and is going to be the sides of the Corinthian’s centerboard case. The last photo is the lofted lines on the floor; basically, a full-size 3-view drawing of what the boat will lookContinue reading “Boatbuilding Step 2 (and 1)”
Day 20: Virginia & Kentucky
Starting today about 30 miles south of the Virginia/Kentucky border, I was alarmed- nay, surprised- to find frost on many cloth surfaces this morning.
Using Statolith Composition to Determine Migration Patterns in the Box Jelly Chironex fleckeri
Wow, that is one exciting title!
Marine Biology Grad is a Cape Crusader
Or: I Still Won’t Stop Talking About My Adventures On Monomoy Island.
The Right Sprite
Sailing World was looking for some sailing writing. So I helped.
Day 19: Virginia.
Appalachia is hard to write about. It is both very beautiful and very saddening, and I don’t entirely understand it.
Day 18: Damascus, Virginia: A fine rest day.
Damascus is nestled, as most towns in Appalachia are, in between a number of hills (or mountains, as we’d call them anywhere else).
Notes from Monomoy 