Here is a website I use to vicariously satisfy my urge to go sailing when I can't as well as find out how to do stuff. It costs about $35 a year but it is worth it! Their tutorial on fiberglassing and fastener selection alone is worth the money. Check it out, there is a lot for small boater enthusiasts to identify with and enjoy. I have no connection to this website except as a subscriber. http://www.offcenterharbor.com/tour/ Fair winds, Tom B <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=oa-2322-a> Virus-free. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=oa-2322-a> <#DDB4FAA8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>
On 6/17/2016 11:52 AM, Thomas Buzzi wrote: Tom I concur wholeheartedly. The Off Center Harbor (OCH) gang give you How-To videos on all sorts of boat problems. I would have gladly paid them double their subscription price for the video on how to paint properly, back in my early days of painting a fiberglass boat. Reading instructions on the side of a paint can is one thing; listening to, and seeing an expert show you what the boat painting problems are; and how to avoid them, instantly elevates you a semi-expert too. At least it saves you from all the beginners learning-curve ; and lets you start with a much better idea of what to do and how to do it. You might never build a wooden boat, but their videos on the whole boat building process; and how to properly cover it with fiberglass cloth; as well as making proper fillets is an eye opener. Why make every problem a beginner can dream up, if the expert boat builders can show you how to avoid the problems in the first place. Tom, if you aren't aware: The WEST Epoxy Company has a "How-To" book that they send you for free. It describes WEST epoxy use and also shows you how to fix various problems that occur in fiberglass boats. It's been my boat repair, and modification Bible ever since I got it, way back when ..... OCH just had a video of the Maine Maritime training schooner, the Bowdoin, getting a new deck installed. The Bowdoin was used by Admiral McMillan for Arctic exploration in the '20's and '30's. I have a sailing model of the Bowdoin, made by Acushnet, in the late '20s - early '30's. My model has sailed at the Conservatory Lake in Central Park, NYC; in Paris; in Germany and in the Yugoslavian waters of the Adriatic for about 80 years. Now, thanks to OCH I am getting photos of the original Bowdoin back in the water after her deck rebuild. Ciao, Connie PS. For sailing videos, go to YouTube: sail the Atlantic; the Pacific; and everywhere in between. When the Texas weather is around 100 degrees, go along for a sail in Greenland fjords.
Here is a website I use to vicariously satisfy my urge to go sailing when I can't as well as find out how to do stuff. It costs about $35 a year but it is worth it! Their tutorial on fiberglassing and fastener selection alone is worth the money. Check it out, there is a lot for small boater enthusiasts to identify with and enjoy. I have no connection to this website except as a subscriber. http://www.offcenterharbor.com/tour/
Fair winds, Tom B
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Connie, Yes, that video of redecking the Bowdoin was great. The experience that went into shaping every single scantling was just mind boggling. It gave this old house carpenter a lesson in humility. When I was fresh out of college I apprenticed for a master shipwright in Old Saybrook, Ct. Hank Jones knew his way around wooden boats. I was privileged to understudy his methods from caring and sharpening my tools to laying out various parts of a boat and then transforming the drawings into three dimensional wooden parts. Amazing the angles and shapes you can pick up off a lofted table of offsets. Clever bunch those old square rigger ship wrights. Fair winds, Tom B <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=oa-2322-a> Virus-free. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=oa-2322-a> <#DDB4FAA8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 1:54 PM, Conbert Benneck <chbenneck@gmail.com> wrote:
On 6/17/2016 11:52 AM, Thomas Buzzi wrote:
Tom I concur wholeheartedly.
The Off Center Harbor (OCH) gang give you How-To videos on all sorts of boat problems. I would have gladly paid them double their subscription price for the video on how to paint properly, back in my early days of painting a fiberglass boat.
Reading instructions on the side of a paint can is one thing; listening to, and seeing an expert show you what the boat painting problems are; and how to avoid them, instantly elevates you a semi-expert too. At least it saves you from all the beginners learning-curve ; and lets you start with a much better idea of what to do and how to do it.
You might never build a wooden boat, but their videos on the whole boat building process; and how to properly cover it with fiberglass cloth; as well as making proper fillets is an eye opener. Why make every problem a beginner can dream up, if the expert boat builders can show you how to avoid the problems in the first place.
Tom, if you aren't aware: The WEST Epoxy Company has a "How-To" book that they send you for free.
It describes WEST epoxy use and also shows you how to fix various problems that occur in fiberglass boats. It's been my boat repair, and modification Bible ever since I got it, way back when .....
OCH just had a video of the Maine Maritime training schooner, the Bowdoin, getting a new deck installed. The Bowdoin was used by Admiral McMillan for Arctic exploration in the '20's and '30's.
I have a sailing model of the Bowdoin, made by Acushnet, in the late '20s - early '30's.
My model has sailed at the Conservatory Lake in Central Park, NYC; in Paris; in Germany and in the Yugoslavian waters of the Adriatic for about 80 years. Now, thanks to OCH I am getting photos of the original Bowdoin back in the water after her deck rebuild.
Ciao, Connie
PS. For sailing videos, go to YouTube: sail the Atlantic; the Pacific; and everywhere in between. When the Texas weather is around 100 degrees, go along for a sail in Greenland fjords.
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can't as well as find out how to do stuff. It costs about $35 a year but it is worth it! Their tutorial on fiberglassing and fastener selection alone is worth the money. Check it out, there is a lot for small boater enthusiasts to identify with and enjoy. I have no connection to this website except as a subscriber. http://www.offcenterharbor.com/tour/
Fair winds, Tom B
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Have been a member since the inception of the site. Money well spent especially during the winter months when arm chair sailing is in order for one to keep his sanity 😈 George "We Can Not Control the Wind But We Can Adjust Our Sails" On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 11:52 AM, Thomas Buzzi <thomaspbuzzi@gmail.com> wrote:
Here is a website I use to vicariously satisfy my urge to go sailing when I can't as well as find out how to do stuff. It costs about $35 a year but it is worth it! Their tutorial on fiberglassing and fastener selection alone is worth the money. Check it out, there is a lot for small boater enthusiasts to identify with and enjoy. I have no connection to this website except as a subscriber. http://www.offcenterharbor.com/tour/
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