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Generally speaking, with boats (and aircraft structure too) you want to avoid kiln dried wood at all costs. The Kiln drying process, since it uses...
As originally built Duffy had White Oak Frames, the other structural framing/blocking was Douglas Fir and the planking was Alaskan Yellow Cedar...
Marcus, Theres a lot to unpack in that post, but I'll try as best as I can. I'll be a little out of order with the questions because it'll make...
That pretty much brings us up to date. I’m still stuck in finish and detail work purgatory, but the last plank went on the bottom in the last few...
Finally Duffy was starting to look like herself again. The hull was fair enough to stop for now… [IMG] …and I could start working on that last...
Thanks @El Hueso I had some helpers at the time that were attending to the refastening duties on the bottom and hull sides, so I took the...
We started making new planks and putting them on to keep rain and critters out of the new work. [IMG] Then we started stripping the entire hull...
Before we took on Duffy we did our due diligence and had her surveyed to keep us from inheriting a bad boat. The survey came back great, the boat...
In the last weeks of my enrollment at the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding, Duffy moved back into the yard at Port Townsend’s Boat Haven....
About halfway through this period, we again hauled Duffy for her normal two-week annual check, service, and a quick paint job… [IMG] [IMG]...
Of course, there was work being done throughout this period. Over the course of a few months, in the evenings after school I rebuilt the interior...
To top it off, the Port Townsend Sailing Association made us the “committee boat” for their weekly sailboat races during one summer. That means...
Of course all moorage, dingy commuting, school, and Customline a makes Evan a dull boy, so there was much cruising with the family during days...
So let’s go back, way back to the last time I updated this thread. That was right after I had retired from the Army and, with nothing better to...
Just came across this old thread whilst looking for pictures of Duffy to illustrate a conversation I was having at the bar down the street from...
Our family truckster... [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] ...she's toured four states this year, planning on the rest of the lower 48 in the...
...some american tall tales: [ATTACH]
...the Pacific Ocean and the Oregon California boarder [ATTACH]
Doc' Brown's house... [ATTACH]
Once the exhaust is done, and not rubbing on every pebble and rattling me insane, I'll be undertaking the route to a nice mild customization. A...
Thanks all, she's been a good car these last few months (the trip was in June/July). Since then I've fixed a few items that came up from our trip...
The car did great. The only trouble was some altitude related wheezing in the mountains and especially the dirt road to Bodie which crests 8500...
The final day of our roadtrip covered the Oregon coast and the last leg home to Tacoma... [ATTACH] For the first time in the history of ever,...
Then drove through one tree: [ATTACH] Then drove through a second tree: [ATTACH] Then got the Hat-Trick: [ATTACH] And saw some...
San Fransisco: [ATTACH] Pacific Coast Highway: [ATTACH] Drove through a Steinbeck novel: [ATTACH] Found some Redwoods: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
We then put LA in our rearview mirror. And headed up the coast were we would ping pong between the Coast Highway, the 101 and the 99 for the next...
We then invited ourselves over to Doc Brown's house to help out with his "weather experiment" [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
LA City Hall: [ATTACH] Hit the Formosa for some Chinese takeout and had a picnic at the La Brea Tar Pits: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] A Chevy overhead...
We ended up at the In-Law's place in La Crescenta a little after midnight and awoke to this... [ATTACH] ...the damnedest thing. Quiet. In the...
Running along the California-Nevada boarder: [ATTACH] The long dirt road above 8000 feet to the ghost town of Bodie: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
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