They gave me a bunch of free tickets to the virtual Worldwide Classic Boat Show, which now runs until next Sunday. If you'd like one, let me know and I'll send you a ticket. I've been thoroughly enjoy

Dear Boating Friends, Bob’s wife, Janice, has asked me (she doesn’t do computers) to Thank all those who sent her Sympathy cards after Bob’s passing. She appreciated the thoughtfulness of each of you

John and Gayle are retiring, and have sold Glen-L to Duckworks in Port Townsend. Josh and his crew will be taking control of Glen-L next Monday. John and Gayle will still be available for help, for a

I'm quite enjoying the Worldwide Classic Boat Show. The presentation by Tom Cunliffe on Saturday (replay viewable anytime) alone was worth the cost of a ticket! :o) https://classicboatshow.com/ I hope

I friend of mine sent me this link to a list of interest to boat lovers and builders. They seem to be on a slow server, only bring up one page at a time, and have lots of blank pages before you get to

While looking through the Events section of the Worldwide Classic Boat Show I stumbled upon this video about the great festival held every other year in Brittany. What makes La Semaine du Golfe Morbih

now, here is an interesting sentence from the book "A Floating Home"... "A barque, such as is often bought by a Norwegian trader in timber, and spends her remaining days being pumped out by a windmill

After some difficulties, I've put some photos into the pages They gave us in the virtual show. Alas, They only allowed 12 photos, but we got two pages -- one for the Coots, and another for the Oregon

Pretty neat solution for dry docking. https://youtu.be/u9F5xbIZbHI Case Sent from not here -- Dirt

I hope all of you are surviving the bad weather alright. The cold only reached down a bit south of Albany, so I'm doing fine. Ken P has been working on a Michalak AF4 Breve while snowed in up on Bainb

One of our members wanted a post about my Willys wagon; want to send him a message, can't find his note for an address- so please reply to me and I'll write something up. Dan

Some pictures of progress- this one is of the blanks, cut from one 2X4, the diagonal cut done with this wonderful saw. Below, the oars are sanded and shaped using this classic plane, probably the firs

Digital jiggery-pokery starting with his death mask... -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Bringing Nelson back to life Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2021 18:09:43 -0000 From: Nicholas Blake Reply-To: Ma

Got an interesting email yesterday. Might be worth participating. I'll know more next week. But they sure know how to get my attention. Look who's right in front on their sample page! :o) (see attachm

Hey guys, I am hoping to move my Pearson 33 this weekend from Everett to Olympia. I want to share my float plan with you lot in case you have pointers. WEATHER Not ideal weather window but I want the

This is what they look like now. Dan

An interesting article about the CG Newport lifeboat Victory. She's well over 60 years old, and they have to _make_ parts to keep her going, but there are still no replacement boats that can do what s

Hey John, yes it is an original 33, from 1972 with the keel-Centerboard. https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/pearson-33 I used the name 33-1 just to be clear that it is not a 33-2. fin keeler. She is a

I forgot to mention that Tuffy came with an uninstalled roller furler. Kendall says it could be used as a roller reefer, but I don't like what that would do to the sail shape. A big Genny on the furle

The Corps of Engineers is supposed to put the plug back in at Fern Ridge today. Their reservoir Web pages are down, so I can't check on them... <sigh> I suppose I could drive by and look. <g> http://w