I have added a few photos of my new mizzen (from the link on)! Must say I think looks grand :-)! http://foldingkayaks.org/gallery/A-lot-of-Junk%21/PICT4500 ...
http://375.historiclewes.org/saillewes.html I'll be there, hopefully with a digicam, for part of the time, crewing aboard our own beloved Maryland Dove. Mike,...
I put my name in the hat as volunteer transit crew, depends on open berths . If they don't sell all 12, I might see you there . If I'm not there take a look at...
Hi to everybody. I'm glad I found this group, and hope to learn from you and build a boat in the near future. My interest is only in sailing (no rowing or...
Anyone seen this or anything like it on Ebay? http://tinyurl.com/ovfc9 I guess I should think of it as some kind of honour, but still... I've written to the...
Oops... copyright enfringement? Seen this before, some of these, but ignored it.
Thomas
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Gavin Atkin wrote:
> Anyone seen this or anything like...
I've been given a couple of very old scow Moths, they were built by the givees grandfather during the late 1950s and sailed by three generations of that...
Much of the epoxy coating debate has been in reference to boats that realistically only get used a dozen times in a good year, they get stored on a trailer...
I used to think I knew a bit about this, but I've lost it along the way somewhere, and maybe someone can help please? I have a means of converting dxf files to...
I do a "Print Screen" in Windows or just select and copy the image on a Mac. Then I do a "Paste as new" in the GIMP, which is a free, open source image editor....
That should work on any image editor. "Print Screen" puts the image into the "clipboard" and copy on Mac does similarly (I forget what they call it there, but...
The CAD programs that I have used have an option to draw the lines thicker. So I do that first and save the image as a JPEG. By the way, I find Freeship is...
John: You are probably more than right. But even those boats that get used more often, there are probably cheaper ways of doing things. For example, a couple...
I've had the same question after scanning a picture, and wanting the lines to be wide enough to see in a screen sized image. This works where I have black...
Gav, I have something of a similar problem in that my CAD program outputs .jpg files with the jaggies. I end up scanning the printed CAD drawing with my...
I would guess he did a lot of repainting avoiding dings ect. With glass it is a tougher finnish that takes less upkeep and with primer and paint over will keep...
... enough to see in a screen sized image. This works where I have black lines on a white background. ... having it select all the white. Then I tell it to...
... stored ... trying ... When I was a kid (long before the days of epoxy), the family boat was a maghogany plywood GP-14 built by Bell Woodworking in the UK....
The web site Sailing Anarchy has lots of ignorant opinions, immature ideas about beer and women, and other annoyances, but now and then they have some really...
... Gav: I have used Gimp professionally on both Mac and PC, and tested it on my son's Linux box. Strangely, it was more unstable on the Linux box. I can go to...
... Gav, You're not alone, becoming thicker and thicker! I use Gimp under Linux, and it is a bless - some things I still do under Photoshop 7.0 - which also...
Fir and pine ply will check , epoxy or not, well painted or not , you must add a glass matrix to halt the checking . Just the nature of the wood. A friend of...
Which distro of Linux and which utility are you running Photoshop 7 ? I haven't had much luck with Wine and Mandrake . I'm switching to Ubuntu 6.06.1 as soon...
A long time ago I learned from a friend that there was a tool you should not forget, even though it isn't a carpenter's tool, or a mechanic's! Its called in...
Yes, they are handy. My dad, a mechanic, used one almost daily. Sometimes called Kelly clamps, you can, at least in N America, find them in the fishing tackle...
Here, you can find these in hardware stores, sometimes marked "not for medical use." Electronics stores also commonly carry them. So do "trade" pharmacies. ......
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