Dear list: Some time ago, I promised David Beede that although one-sheet boats were necessarily rather limited in their use, you could do magic with two sheets...
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Frank Ellinghaus
ellingh@xxxxx.xxxx
Jun 5, 1999 1:56 am
... From: Gavin <gmatkin@...> ... Hello Gavin, I was only one time out after our vacation and tried a mini-jib in front of the sprit sail. Tacking was...
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kandlew
kandlew@xxxxx.xxxx
Jun 5, 1999 3:26 am
... Kroozer made it's maiden voyage to the Montgomery County Solid Waste Transfer Station, which is our quaintly bureaucratic name for a bunch of dumpsters and...
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MIKE GOODWIN
panmanii@xxxx.xxxx
Jun 5, 1999 12:06 pm
Gavin, Where has everyone been? I'm waist deep in this commercial kitchen install , could go on all summer, $$$$$$$$$. Music season is fully kicked off as of...
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Gavin
gmatkin@xxxxx.xxxx
Jun 4, 1999 7:31 pm
... Oh Lew! I do sympathise. The price of being a pioneer, I suppose. ... I've come across this kind of construction before, but I don't know what the ...
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Gavin
gmatkin@xxxxx.xxxx
Jun 4, 1999 7:38 pm
<big snip!> Kitchens may be dull, but it sounds like you are having a ball nevertheless. ... We'll look forward to that. Should have taken my camera up to the...
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Gavin
gmatkin@xxxxx.xxxx
Jun 4, 1999 9:33 pm
I saw the following post and reply on rec.boats.building today, and it made me laugh so much (there's surely some truth in it), that I felt I should share it...
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Gavin
gmatkin@xxxxx.xxxx
Jun 4, 1999 11:13 pm
Please do introduce yourselves - tell us what you want from this list please, and what you feel you might like to contribute. You are very welcome here. If...
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kandlew
kandlew@xxxxx.xxxx
Jun 6, 1999 5:09 pm
... There are angles and then there are angles. You refer, I think, to the problem of defining the bottom with too much twist in the panel extensions forward,...
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Gavin
gmatkin@xxxxx.xxxx
Jun 5, 1999 12:22 am
... I thought I understood that you were planning to cut a narrow vee shape out of the panel material, and to draw the corners together to force the material...
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MIKE GOODWIN
panmanii@xxxx.xxxx
Jun 7, 1999 2:49 am
We have done these cut outs in the ply with Mark Pettingill's "sweet dreams" and you must (well maybe it helps ) use good ply stock and drill a "stopper" hole...
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kandlew
kandlew@xxxxx.xxxx
Jun 7, 1999 3:49 am
... It does make sense, stopper holes are used in lots of materials to stop cracks - although I admit that I hadn't thought of it and probably wouldn't've....
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kandlew
kandlew@xxxxx.xxxx
Jun 7, 1999 4:36 am
... You understood correctly, except that I'm not all that committed to the idea - running the V all the way aft with decreasing deadrise is not anathema to...
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MIKE GOODWIN
panmanii@xxxx.xxxx
Jun 7, 1999 11:49 am
... Lew, I haven't used Hulls in a while, since I bought Plyboats 2.0, but I think there is a way to tweak the aft sections flat fore and aft. It is fairly ...
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bblackbu@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
Jun 7, 1999 7:50 pm
Lew: I think a little prototyping is in order. Some time spent with 3x5 cards, scotch tape, and an x-acto knife would go a long way toward telling you what is...
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MIKE GOODWIN
panmanii@xxxx.xxxx
Jun 7, 1999 9:30 pm
... I have tried that and it works to a point , paper is eaiser to bend than ply . But there is a very thin ply available a model shops that cater to RC ...
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Gavin
gmatkin@xxxxx.xxxx
Jun 5, 1999 7:22 am
... dreams" ... "stopper" ... Thanks for the tip. ... I know that feeling... did you go through the perspiring/shaking/palpitations stage, or just feel wobbly?...
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Frank Ellinghaus
ellingh@xxxxx.xxxx
Jun 8, 1999 12:19 am
... From: MIKE GOODWIN <panmanii@...> To: <boatdesign@onelist.com> Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 5:30 PM Subject: Re: [boatdesign] Cutouts in the ply ... In...
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MIKE GOODWIN
panmanii@xxxx.xxxx
Jun 8, 1999 1:59 am
Frank, It is right next to the luan 1/4" underlayment ply , at least it is in the Home Depots in my area which is less than 180 miles from you . If you cant ...
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kandlew
kandlew@xxxxx.xxxx
Jun 8, 1999 2:56 am
... They keep it stacked with the 1x12's, 1x8s etc and hardwoods - seems to be standard practice at all Home Depots I've seen. Probably the same marketing...
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kandlew
kandlew@xxxxx.xxxx
Jun 8, 1999 5:18 am
... I wasn't playing the one sheet game, but I'm ashamed to admit that I tried K-one in cardstock and thought that the tumblehome problem was caused by errors...
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Frank Ellinghaus
ellingh@xxxxx.xxxx
Jun 8, 1999 7:11 pm
... From: MIKE GOODWIN <panmanii@...> To: <boatdesign@onelist.com> Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 9:59 PM Subject: Re: [boatdesign] Cutouts in the ply ... ...
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Gavin
gmatkin@xxxxx.xxxx
Jun 11, 1999 11:30 am
Anyone out there interested in a self-steering gadget developed by dinghy cruisers in the UK? I've put a gif file including text and a diagram in the shared...
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Gavin
gmatkin@xxxxx.xxxx
Jun 11, 1999 4:39 pm
Dear list: Most email warnings are hoaxes, but some bright people, including I gather Microsoft, think that this one is serious. If you haven't already, read...
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Gavin
gmatkin@xxxxx.xxxx
Jun 11, 1999 5:04 pm
I've zooming my way through Donald Ridler's book Erik the Red. Not the best-written book I've ever read, but it tells a great story. This was a man who crossed...
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kandlew
kandlew@xxxxx.xxxx
Jun 11, 1999 9:48 pm
... Hard act to follow......
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bblackbu@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
Jun 11, 1999 10:40 pm
I have been using a similar system on my 16' O'Day Daysailer for a couple of years now. It's nice to be able to let go of the tiller to adjust a tangled sheet...
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kandlew
kandlew@xxxxx.xxxx
Jun 12, 1999 2:23 pm
Folks, this one is for real. Tell your friends....
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Livingston Family
sjfam@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 13, 1999 5:46 am
Hello there, I am very new at this design stuff, but I have a couple of Ideas that I would like to try out. I have been looking at the stitch and glue method...
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Gavin
gmatkin@xxxxx.xxxx
Jun 12, 1999 12:48 am
There are two freeware/shareware softwares currenlty around; you can download them via links in my design page http://home.clara.net/gmatkin/design.htm I have...
