A few more basic Navionics tutorials. If you haven't added a memory card to your devise, do so and tell Navionics to start charts and other stuff on the card. Navionics charts, being "vector" charts,

Thanks for looking that up, Jove. I'll have to print that out and post it in the shop so I can remember. <g> So, Randy's Kohnen Scarfing Jig is clearly a "jig". Something that, say, positions stock

First off, I can take photos as needed for private replies. Probably most of the boat gear I have ought to go to a coot in build mode. I also have rifle, pistol, and shotgun reloading setups. Two

Ok..... I had to google it! “The most basic difference, is that a jig is a type of tool used to hold and support the workpiece but in addition to this, A Jig also controls the location or motion of

You too John and Mary.

Thanks, Dan. We will do it again someday. Everybody take care of yourselves, and wash your hands! -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Someday, again... Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 10:55:27

Flickr has lots of pictures of the MacKenzie River system, for those who are interested, and, if you keep looking, some of the current vessels plying the river. Thanks for finding another rabbit

Forced isolation has often found me lying on the couch with a cat on top of me diving down various rabbit holes on the Interweb on my tablet. The other night I started out looking up Yellowknife on

John, You are very welcome for the naming. Cutting the scarfs with the track saw is much less scary than cutting the scarfs with the tablesaw. In the next few days I will cut the scarfs for the

That's real neat, Randy, very clever! And thanks fpr naming it after me. <blush> ;o) That's very much the sort of thing I was thinking of, but I don't have a track saw, so I was thinking of using a

Same technique I have used. Also, one can listen for the frogs near shore as they holler out the water depth which you can hear as you get too close to the shore. Knee deep, knee deep they

Whenever I’ve needed long wood, over say 12’, for a toe rail or somesuch I’ve knocked together a jig on a table saw sled piece of ply with a couple 1X2 or 2X2 as available for a 12 to 1 scarf.

Back when I was making my SOF kayak I scarfed all the stringers and gunnels from 10’ wood. It was a bit tricky to get them with no twist. Any off squareness of the cut resulted in an eventuated

Last time I used binder clip clamps is when Blake and I built a model PDR for a class project he had in elementary school. Sent from not here -- Dirt

Jeez...I don’t know ,Bob.....I just stare-off in the distance, pick some mythological point, and head for it......I magically avoid rocks and other protrusions by thinking positive thoughts and

Slightly related - NOAA used to do 18423 and 18445 "Small Craft Series" for Puget Sound, that in printed form were a wonderful solution to having something! These have been discontinued in print AND

Back in January, John Kohnen and I were discussing scarfing jigs and I showed the jig I used on my table saw. John said “I've been thinking about a jig (or would it be a fixture? I never can keep

A reminder that NOAA is phasing out RNC raster charts. To the extent you can, keep files of current chart files to support anything that can use them, like OpenCPN. At least for local waters. NOAA

Thanks for the tip, Brandon. "Masquerade" looks like an entertaining film noir -- with sailboats! :o) "The Mercy" is a fictional movie about Andrew's hero Donald Crowhurst and his strange and

I got a reply from Dan at TopoGrafix, who told me that you need to recenter the map over a coastal area to see the option for setting the base map to nautical charts. Why? It seems like nautical