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Unlikely Boat Builder: 20 Days to Build a Dingy

Mountain Climbing There are a lot of good boat building books (BBBs) out there, and I own many of them. But when I started to build Cabin Boy, I decided to pick one guru to follow. That guru, for me…

Replied Feb 19

Unlikely Boat Builder: 20 Days to Build a Dingy

A Garboard Tragedy (Act 2) All the BBBs (boat building books) tell you that when you spile, you must lock down your dividers and use exactly the same radii for all your arcs. Being an overly-clever…

Replied Feb 16

Unlikely Boat Builder: 20 Days to Build a Dingy

The first step in getting out any plank is to spile it. Determined, this time, to follow the advice of the Boat Building Books as closely as possible, I read and re-read the pertinent sections of Gre…

Replied Feb 14

Unlikely Boat Builder: 20 Days to Build a Dingy

Lining Off The Hull Resuming our Tale of Two Boats... The Blue Moon's hull being painted, I relaunched her, splashing half a bottle of Blue Moon beer on her bow (no need to waste the whole bottle!)…

Replied Feb 8

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John Almberg replied to John Almberg's discussion 'Unlikely Boat Builder: 20 Days to Build a Dingy'

Day 10: Seeing DNA When you look at the plans of a Master, like John Atkin, everything you need to know is right in front of your face. It's in the plans... in the boat's DNA. The trick is seeing it... Read complete blog post: Seeing DNA Enjoy:…

January 20

John Almberg replied to John Almberg's discussion 'Unlikely Boat Builder: 20 Days to Build a Dingy'

Once or twice a week, I get gentle (and sometimes not so gentle) comments or emails from readers, asking me, in one way or another "Why do you do everything the hard way?!?!" An easy answer would be, because my goal is not just to build a boat, but…

January 16

John Almberg replied to John Almberg's discussion 'Unlikely Boat Builder: 20 Days to Build a Dingy'

Bulwarks a la Buehler One of the nice features of the Tom Glimer Blue Moon is the raised deck amidships. It gives the boat great strength, lovely wide side decks, and lots of room below decks (for a 23' boat.) I don't know what Tom specified on th…

January 14

John Almberg replied to John Almberg's discussion 'Unlikely Boat Builder: 20 Days to Build a Dingy'

There's a woodworking adage that goes something like this: "Every one makes mistakes. The difference between a beginner and the Master Craftsman is the Master Craftsman knows how to fix his mistakes." No doubt this is true, but on the long road tha…

January 13

John Almberg replied to John Almberg's discussion 'Unlikely Boat Builder: 20 Days to Build a Dingy'

Day 13: Chine Logs - Part 1 I knew it might come down to this: Build or Blog? Build or Blog? So, for the last two day's I've been building, with no time to blog. The cause for all this concentration is the hardest thing I've run into, yet: letting…

January 6

John Almberg replied to John Almberg's discussion 'Unlikely Boat Builder: 20 Days to Build a Dingy'

I had a nightmare last night. Not about 60 foot breaking waves in the Gulf of Mexico. Not about being dashed on rocks, or falling overboard. No, I was worried about my lofting. I woke up in a cold sweat, realizing that the chance were zero that a b…

January 4

John Almberg replied to John Almberg's discussion 'Unlikely Boat Builder: 20 Days to Build a Dingy'

Well, on this Day 17, my mission was to mount Cabin Boy's transom, using the micron invention described yesterday, and to tie the whole backbone together, as much as possible. I started by bolting the keelson to the stem. To do that, I had to drill…

January 2

John Almberg replied to John Almberg's discussion 'Unlikely Boat Builder: 20 Days to Build a Dingy'

Day 18: Year of the Blue Moon On this Day 18, my goal was to work on Cabin Boy's transom. I had bought a large plank of Mahogany from Condon's. It was a beautiful piece, but since I'd brought it home to my basement workshop, it had developed a nast…

January 1

John Almberg replied to John Almberg's discussion 'Unlikely Boat Builder: 20 Days to Build a Dingy'

January 1

John Almberg replied to John Almberg's discussion 'Unlikely Boat Builder: 'Plan B''

Day 19: Stem Invention What a difference a deadline makes. I've been puzzling over a build problem for several weeks now, without success. None of my boat building books has a solution. Even Clem Kuhlig's "Building the Skiff Cabin Boy" just skips o…

January 1

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Unlikely Boat Builder: 'Plan B'

As Captain Cook knew, there's always a Plan B. Thus, when the wooden boat that Helena and I had been looking for for years, turned up on eBay, we suddenly needed a Plan B. Plan A had been to "build Cabin Boy this winter so when and if we buy a wood…

December 30, 2009

John Almberg replied to John Almberg's discussion 'Unlikely Boat Builder: The Cruelest Lesson'

For the last month or so, I've been asking all my new boat builder/wood worker friends where to buy boat lumber. There are many answers to this question: from a company in Brooklyn that sells wood recovered from 200 year-old buildings (built from ol…

December 20, 2009