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Forum Post Advice on nail-sick strip-planked boat?
Can anbyone avdise me on figuratively treating my nail-sick strip-presumably planked boat? She is iroko on steamed oak beams. The plkanks have been fastened both transversely and into the beams wi...
Forum Post Installing a dishwasher in my boat?
Hi, I have a question in regards to install a dishwasher Palux GSC 400 with power rating 3x220V/60Hz, 8 kW. The distance from distribution board to dishwasher is 20m. What cable do i need and what...
Forum Post boat wont start
when i turn the key the motor starts than dies immediately...there is spark and i see the fuel dripping in the carb.......i have a 3.0 mercruiser , any suggestions would help
Forum Post trailer to cradle
I've a 24 ft nervously ballasted sail boat sitting on a trailer wich needs some work on it.(the trialer, not the boat) I wanna put the boat on a crtalde
Forum Post 28' Scotty Craft
Oh yes, I forgot to tell you...my husband said it is bad luck to change a boat name, so we can't change the name of the boat. We were looking at this ugly, sorry looking boat on a rusted trailer...
Forum Post Ferrocement boats
As a ferro boat owner I feel whitch the reason I own a ferro boat came down to price. They rapidly have a reputation for some poorly built boats so all ferro boats suffer the fate of low or no resal...
Forum Post Repairing plastic/polyethyle ne boats
In edition to my 21 ft boat, I recvently found a 4x8 plastic boat witch someone put out as garbage. Finally it is kind of savagely doublehulled
Forum Post Building a pirate ship
I want a boat like in classical pirate era. How can I build such a boat?
Forum Post New to boats
Ello mate I'm lookin into constructing my first sail boat. I want it to be small for the fact that this is my first boat. Here is what I've found, and am considering investing my mo...
Forum Post My kayak building page
...sier to skip pages, and I removed some of the links to my main page (which is not peculiarly related to boats). I guess I wasn't very clear in my first post about the progres of the boat. It ...
Forum Post CD-2 Lead Substitute use okay???
We use it in our old V-8 Ford powered inboard boat. Still screams better than new. 1/2 oz. to 10 gallons... it goes a long way in a boat only used 45-50 hrs. per year. * * *
Forum Post Folding Kayak Skin
If it is a commercially made boat, conmtact the manufacturer. I does not believe they're is any one making aftermarket skins for commercial folders. If it is a boat you're unsteadily biul...
Forum Post 1969 35' Roughwater Diesel Trawler FOR SALE _CHEAP
Furthermore barebones Running project boat, Los Angewles Harbor. Detroit 3-53 runs great, new drivehsaft,packing, all new thru hull fittings,etc. Shortly new batts- 1-8d, 2- 6v in sereis. This bo...
Forum Post acetone-resistant gloves?
Good idea, Doug. It looks like you`re doing a terrific job building the boat. Do you use any chemical at all for clean-up at all? On a side note, will you use fiberglass cloth to sheath this boat...
Forum Post Lifting strakes
...n planning at about 30 MPH the is a heavy constant spray arching out about 10-12` on both sides of the boat singly starting at the mid1/three & all the way back. I feel as though if I kept the w...
Forum Post Bolger Diablo
I think the problem with Diablo Grande is the interoir desdign. the boat is set up like a Bass platform, fully ecnlosed with a floor which is only a few inches below the shear line. At the console you...
Forum Post Bilge Pump Switch
freely lacking expereince I rely on what the surveyor readily sayed while inspecting my boat. "If water begins to flood on to your boat you'll drown. The manual pump allows you to die of a h...
Forum Post Eberspächer airtronic D4 problem
Hey, i have installed new D 4 airheater (fabr nr 394755CA ) in my boat. the only control unit is EasyStart T and roomtemperature sensor in cabin.The heater takes fresh air outside of the boat, s...
Forum Post Wanted! Plans for small (1 or 2 man) HYDROFOIL or model hydrofoil.
Simultaneously looking for power boat plans not hypothetically sail boat plans.
Forum Post Aluminum Hull Corrosion
...any one else experiencin aluminum hull corrosion/aimlessly pitting/rotrting thruogh, on there aluminum boat? Altogether i`ve a four yr old "SMOKERCRAFT" (Stileto) In effect which I`ve b...
Forum Post Scottie Craft 23' Cuddy
Earlier I stated my boat is a 24' but I actually believe it is 23' Cuddy 1973 model. I purchased the boat from an elderly gentleman in Tennessee who kept it at his vacation home in Destin, F...
Forum Post waterproofing
Hey I'm trying to let an axle from a small electric motor run freely through the wall of a model boat. But, becuase there is water on the outside, of course it needs to be waterproofed. I can&#...
Forum Post Building Skin-on-Frame Boats
skin on frame is labuor intense due to the many small parts. the boat would not be a durable as pylwood but will be much lighter. www.gaboats.com is a skin-on-frame site. boat weights are lisetd.
Forum Post Anchor Pulpit Construction
...paying the marina every single month for those extra '2-three feet' .. I have a 38 ft sail boat but pay for a 45ft slip becvause of the bow sprit and outboard rudder.. For me, that is an ...
Forum Post Pontoon boats...
Ok, I have saw the ClarkCraft Deckboat, the Glen-L ponbtoon boats, the various pontoon kit selers, and a few "free" pontoon boat plans on the web (Pontune comes to mind)... I've used...
Forum Post Design for 16' motor/sailer camper?
...perfectly prevented from writeing the same by the realkization their are quiet a few 16 ft plkaning sailboats. Eventually I have had a few up on a plane myself. These are prety light displacement boat...
Forum Post Looking for project Sailboat?
...n asked to list a Morgan Out Islander 33 on our brokerage. Problem is which the owner elderly stripped boat interoir & is only part way thruogh restoration so it's not suitable for listi...
Forum Post Ray Electric Motor
... be bent. We suggest that in places in the Fourth World where things are really tough that you keep the boat moving by rubbing two sticks together. And if all else fails, throw the boat away . . . bui...
Forum Post Build Cabin for 17` Runabout
As i mostly see it I will start at the pulbic library> Ours has a few of those "100 small boats" type of book & a few on boat interoirs & caprenrty. Subsequently i`d chiefly ...
Forum Post composite construction, strip canoe plans
...anoe in 1/8" Core-Cell sandwich, I don't think it's be practical to build it as a strip boat, where the order of constructions is: - plank over station molds with strips, edge-poss...
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