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Index of articles
01 August 2008
Report from Mystic Seaport, Featured Design: Dragonfly, Glen-L Boatbuilder of the Month, Designer's Notebook: Who's an "Idiot?", Ahab, Why Do Dogs Love Boats?, Shop Talk: Some Handy Tips, Recent email, eMail of the Month
01 July 2008
Independence Day, Two to Nashville, Boatbuilder of the Month, Designer's Notebook: So You Want to be a Boat Designer?, Boat Plans, Seasick Solutions, Shop Talk: Is it Time to Get a Fresh Edge?, Recent eMail, EMail of the Month
29 May 2008
Featured Design: Glen-L 25, Deceptive Destroyer, Replacing Sacrificial Anodes, Designer's Notebook: Why Not Bung Your Screw Heads?, Calendar, Power Boat Power, Shop Talk: Using Wood Plugs, Recent eMail, eMail of the Month
30 April 2008
It's Ketch as Ketch Can, How to Anchor Anywhere, Designer's Notebook: Center of Buoyancy, Calendar, Bilge Pumps, One Engine or Two?, Shop Talk: The Kick-switch & Money-Saving Tip, Innovative Products, Teacher's Day, Recent eMail
27 March 2008
Tee Shirt Contest Winner, Building the Glen-L Series 1700 Trailer, Viking Ships: The Drakkar, Tech Talk: Clinker Planking, Luxury Yacht Diving Competition, That Old Boat, Calculating Maximum Boat Capacity, Shop Talk: Applying Finishes Over Epoxy Coated Surfaces, Age Is A State of Mind(?), Recent eMail
28 February 2008
Time to Say Goodbye, Available Frame Kits, Owner-built Boats Wanted, Where Does Most of the Money Go?, Glen-L "Bucks", Fallacies about Wood, A Pirate's Tale, Recent eMail
30 January 2008
New addition to the team, Building experience (Wee Hunk), Building Tunnel Mite, Feedback: Pot Luck, Last Trout, Recent eMail
Great Adventure, Tubby Tug @ West Marine, Gathering Photos, The Wife and the Boat Building, Building Zip, Recent eMail
Successful Gathering, Gathering Photo Album, Yes we have no 12mm, Offset rudder, Recent eMail
Gathering report, Feedback: Monaco/Squirt, Building Zip, Glenwood boats, Marine toilets, Capacity plate links, Recent email
Feedback: Union Jack/Row Me/Squirt, Building Bo-Jest/Tunnel Mite, Glen-L 12 the beginning, Dog days of boatbuilding, Getting Started (Zip), Recent email
Feedback: MiniMaxed/TNT, Barrelback 19, My Dad's Thunderbolt, Limbers, Ke-Pau, Recent email
Building Whitehall, Feedback: Sculling Skiff, Memories: Elbert Witt, Row row your boat, Tahoe Get-around, Scarfing Plywood, Recent email
The Gathering, Building Malahini, Arrowhead Boat Show, The building form, Building Biscayne 22, Building Riviera, Recent email
An invitation, Feedback: Biscayne/Pee Wee/TNT/Zip, Notching logitudinals, Terms of Endearment, Small boat electrical system, Recent email
Feedback: Tahoe 19/Tahoe 23/Barrelback/Geronimo, Designs of Ken Hankinson, Battleship Missouri, Recent email
Feedback: Fife/Monaco, Console Skiff: If I can do it you can, Changing stock plans, Snow & boat building, How to Build 20 Boats, The Falls of Clyde, Shop talk, Recent email
Feedback: Squirt, Stamps, Build your own Jet Boat, Started as Cracker Box, Living Aboard, PT 728, Fairing jig, Recent email
Feature: Rebel, Do you really want to go fast?, Archives, Stormy Seas, Family Email, Outboard motor control, Feedback: Little Hunk, Recent email
State of Gathering, Then & Now, Can you Canoe, Feedback: Modified Squirt, Recent email
Guntersville report, Archives: Lord Nelson, Seen on the Net, From the Forum, Boating in the Fall, My wife won't let me build a boat, Recent email
Feedback: Cracker Box, Bull's Eye, TNT; The Box; Gathering; Fiberglass sheathing; Recent email
Macke 14 - Upper Mississippi River, Building the Alpha 2, Cruisette: Builders' Diary-Part 5, Feedback: TNT, Stripper, Tango, Classic Mahogany Runabout, Recent email
Console Skiff, Imp, Afloat at last, Inflation?, My Epoxy Won't Cure, Calendar 9-06, Shop Talk: Bass Boat notes, Recent email
Teleseminar follow-up, Building a dream, Calendar, Double Eagle, Addicted to boatbuilding, Console Skiff construction, Frame Kit templates, Shop Talk: Fairing Board, Marine Plywood, Recent email
Glass Bottom boat, New affiliate, Cruisette Builder's Diary, Starpath 44 by James Logan, Recent Photos, Where's the Boat, Questionnaire Results, Shop Talk: Fairing Board, Marine Plywood, Recent email
Allyn Perry, Refurbishing the Thunderbolt, Cruisette Builder's Diary, Recent Photos, Building Tubby Tug, Salute to cordless drills, Shop Talk: Window installation, Recent email
Allyn Perry, Building Console Skiff, Cruisette Builder's Diary, Recent Photos, Naming a Boat, Building Renegade Part 2, Sumer is icumen, Shop Talk Misc, Recent email
Feature: Fancy Free, Repainting Therapy, Building KidYaks-2, Winter Boatbuilding, Cruisette-Diary, Exhaust Systems, Saucy Shingle, Recent email
Wish you had, Epoxy: Unusual uses, Plans cost, Sugar Jack update, Boatbuilding poem, Future boat builders, Recent email
Voyage of the Kobuk, Feedback: Glen-L 14, A DIY Company, Moderating Forum, Mahogany, Recent email
Feedback: Eight ball/Tango, Gloomy Saturday, Journal of the Molly B, Did you ever make a mistake, History of Budlight, Automobile motors to marine, Recent email
Macke 13-Upper Missouri River, Feedback: Glen-L 15/Kidyak/Sweet Caroline/River Rat/Power Skiff 14/Two Plus, Grits, Building Renegade, Recent email
Macke 12- Tennessee River, Deadman throttle, Gentry photos, Online Inboard Hardware catalog, Feedback: TNT/KePau/Zip, Recent email
Why I must build a boat, Feedback: Sherwood Queen/Glen-L 25/Geronimo/Sweet Caroline/DynoJet/Tiny Might, Lumber cuts, Tuffy Tug, Marine Plywood, Recent email
Online Store, New folding boat, C-Flex, Feedback: Console Skiff/Geronimo, Building a Squirt with jet, Building the Squirt part 1, Rocking boat, Recent email
Feature: Trawlers 1, Feedback: Hercules, Yukon, Roustabout, Knot in a hurry, Ken Hankinson, Launch of Erica, Recent email
Why I must build a boat, Old Guys: Andy Anderson, Bass Boat, Jimbo - a conversation, Bridge hopping, Recent email
Macke 11- Intracoastal Waterway Near New Orleans, Installing Teleflex in Squirt, Fiberglass materials, Feedback: Carioca, Rampage, Recent email
Feature: Stiletto, Mirage-Drive, Building or fishing, Poplar, Feedback: Sculling Skiff, Poxy-Shield: Work time, Recent email
Ke-Pau paddlewheeler, Trends, Behind the 8 Ball, Feedback: Squirt/V-Dory/TNT, Veneering transom, Recent email
Boat building Woods, Macke 10- South of St. Louis to Nashville, Feedback: Malahini/Squirt, Building form, Recent launchings, Recent email
Featured design: Delta Q/Gypsy/Quest, Feedback: Amp Eater/Console Skiff, Steam box, Recent launchings, Recent email
GPS, Macke 9-Therapy on the Kentucky River, Fastenings, Wooden windshield, Feedback: Dyno-Jet/Sea angler, Recent email
Featured design: V-Drive boats, Riviera Frame Kit, Inboard Hardware: V-Drives, Feedback: Tornado/Monaco, Scarfing with a Router, Recent email
Featured design: Sherwood Queen, Riviera Frame Kit, CS 20 update, Feedback: Two Plus/Power Skiff 14, Porpoising, Working with patterns, Recent email
Featured design: Double Eagle, CS 20 update, Feedback: Zip, Vacuum bagging, Gelcoat, Squirt with a jet, Recent email
Macke 8-Alabama River - Montgomery to Pensacola, Featured design: Sissy Do/IMP, Feedback: Kodiak/Gentry/Pot Luck, 3.0 Chevy-Velvet Drive, Marinizing an engine, Turning Bo-Jest, Recent email
Featured design: Glen-L 13, About buttocks/ waterlines/ diagonals, Old boatbuilder: Ray Moran, Squirt with jet, Flotation, Recent email
Featured design: V-Dory, Feedback: V-Dory/ Sneak Box/ Flying Saucer/ Tiny Titan, Fiberglassing trailing edge, Wood: Proper names, Metric, Recent email
Featured design: Missile, Evolution of V-drive hull, Chine/bottom junction, What glue?, Feedback: Rampage/V-Gull aluminum/Squirt, What propeller?, Turning the hull, Recent email
Featured design: Audeen, Spraying 2 part polyurethane, Cold-molded history, Legend of the Lake, Recent email
Boat repair: dents & dings, Fairing tools, Feedback: Squirt/Sissy Do/Bo-Jest/Honker/Sliding seat, Construction of Glen-L 12, Recent email
Jetski powered boats, Boat repair & refinish, Bigger is better?, Console Skiff, Feedback: Tiny Titan, Lord Nelson, Painting, Turning Francis Drake, Launch: Wild Thing, Recent email
New Frame Kits, Gentry is here, TV Star, Feedback: Rebel, Installing a wakeboard pylon, Fitting the chine, Building Hobbiton (Carioca), Console Skiff web site, Old guys: E.L. Anderson, Odds & Ends, Feedback: Squirt, Console Skiff dolly, Recent email
Tuffy: 1st Love, Making a swim platform, About fiberglass, Using patterns, Feedback: Airboat, Strut bearings, Recent email
What do I need to start?, Building Tubby Tug, Console, Epoxy glue joints, Building form, BS 6566 Vs BS 1088, Squirt with jet, Feedback: Tornado/Fife, Frame Kits, Turning the hull, Recent email
Feedback: Tunnel Mite, Outrage, Emerald Coaster in FL Keys, Bills of Materials, Stuffing box packing, Odds & Ends, Lunatic Fringe, Recent email
Macke 7-Pickwick to Florida, Sheet plywood development, Struts, Glen-L 12, Modifying outboards to short shaft, Right topside paint, Shop pockets, Feedback: Alpha 2, Recent email
New boat?, Range-How far on a tank of gas?, Performance: Celerity, Making the shaft hole, Feedback: Zip/Cabin Skiff/Noyo Trawler, Shop storage, Wiring notes, Recent email
New Flats boat, Making a molded windshield, Floorboards-storage-interior design, Propeller shafts, USCG site, Epoxy applicators, Recent email
Season Greetings, Description of hull types, More about rudder and shaft stuffing boxes, Cam-driven water pumps
Introduction to Fairing, Skeg Vs Fin, Boat Doctor?, Feedback: 2 Tunnel Mites, Determining Hull Capacity, Building the Power Skiff, Feedback: Squirt, More Squirt, Recent email (MiniMaxed photos)
New Products, Feedback: Cabin Skiff, Transom angles, Shaft logs & stuffing boxes, Feedback: Squirt, Recent email (Honker construction photos)
Macke 6-MS River trip, Feedback: Jimbo, Trip to Catalina (Sea Knight), Restoring Sea Knight, More Sea Knight, Conventional plywood or Stitch and Glue, Delta King Update, Wood look, Recent email
Bottom repair, Inboard hardware: Rudders, Web sites, Can I lengthen... ?, Problem answer, Feedback: Bo-Jest, Recent email
Feedback: Celerity, Making improvements, Motorwell problem, Inboard hardware: Struts, Feedback: Yukon, Cabin Skiff update, Stitch and Glue notes, ABX?, Safety Standards for Backyard Boat Builders, Recent email
Scraping for finishing, Poxy-Shield working time, Macke 5-Chattanooga to Knoxville, Old Boat Club, Feedback: Kid-Yak/Power Skiff 14, Safety Standards for Backyard Boat Builders, Mat & Epoxy, Argosy notes, Shop talk, Questions, Recent email
Dream building, Centerboard notes, Frame construction, Power Skiff 14, Tools, Old Boat Club, Feedback: Argosy, Painting options, Recent email
Monte Carlo is here, Feedback: Quest/TNT with jet/Sea Knight/Zip/Utility, Laminating, Exposed drum steerer, Rudder cavitation, Escapade model, Fairing boards, Recent email
Macke 4-Cruising the Missouri River, Monte Carlo update, Epoxy, fillers and color matching, Using random-random stock, Recent Photos, Sanding Epoxy, Recent email
Stainless steel fasteners, Macke 3- Exploring the Green River, Fastening plywood to frames, Feedback: Renegade/Bandido, The Red Dart (L Dorado), Planing Tiny Titan, Recent email
Boatbuilding epoxy, Boatbuilding tools-3, Feedback: Tubby Tug, Self-draining cockpit, 4-Stroke outboard, Macke 2-Illinois/Mississippi Rivers, Shop talk: Building hints, How fast?, More models, Recent email
Feature boat: Ski Tow/Malahini, Boatbuilding Tools-2, Macke 1-Cruising the Tennessee River, Transom reinforcement, Alternative rub rail, On the drawing board, Feedback: Sherwood Queen, Recent email
Feature: Canoes & kayaks, Approximating displacement in canoes/kayaks, MiniMaxed is here, Airboat frame Kit, Boatbuilding Tools, Feedback: Union Jack, Glen-L discussion group, Recent email
Riviera engine compartment 2, Displacement/Simpson's rule, Feedback: XP8 and Pot Luck, Fan Club, Steermaster cables, Recent email
New design: Honker, Riviera engine compartment, Model making, Minimax, Double planking, Need to build a boat, Feedback: Jimbo, Recent email
New design: Party Boat, Building the Yukon-Part 2, Boat steering, Sanding, Feedback: Cabin Skiff, Eight Ball, Fife, Recent email
Center of Bouyancy, Feedback: Riviera, Sweet Caroline, Marauder, Kingpin, Tubby Tug, Recent email
Sculling Oar
Rigging Small Sailboats-Chap 11 (end),
Hercules Stitch & Glue,
Old Boat Club, Feedback: Swish
Recent email
Transfer paper, Southern CA Messabout,
Rigging Small Sailboats-Chap 10,
Laytex paint for boats, Feedback: Kingpin,
Sweet Caroline Stitch & Glue, Feedback: Noyo, Recent email
Feedback: Flying Saucer, Class CD,
Rigging Small Sailboats-Chap 9,
Feedback: Monaco, Hunky Dory,
Builders in the News,
Making fiberglass components,
Recent email
Converting a Briggs, Cabin Skiff report,
Monsoon: Turning the hull,
Rigging Small Sailboats-Chap 8,
Links to on-line projects,
Feedback: TNT, Feedback: Bo-Jest,
Recent email
Pontoon vs Barge, Father & a Glen-L Rebel, Rigging Small Sailboats-Chap 7,
Performance: Tunnel Mite, Boat Registration,
Shop talk: Centerboard Trunk, Recent email
Great Lakes Small Craft Symposium, Building the Glen-L 14, L Dorado, L Capitan Model, Rigging Small Sailboats-Chap 6, Feedback: Jack Tar, Port Townsend Summer Programs,
Recent email
New Tool Store, FREE Magazine,
On the drawing board: Pedal Boat,
Sliding seat plans, Rigging Small Boats-Chap 5,
Feedback: Renegade, Update: Thunderbolt,
Shop talk: Scarf Sled, Glen-L 30, Recent email
Dinky launch, Electric Videos,
Rigging Small Boats-Chapter 4,
PowerYak, Review: Canvasworker's Guide,
Feedback: Tubby Tug, Recent email
Model Making, Rigging Small Sailboats-Chapter 3, Feedback: Stiletto, Building the Tunnel King - Part 3, Hats & T-shirts, Shop Talk: Table Saw Jig,
Recent email
Feedback: Roustabout, New Sailboat pages, Book: "Rigging Small Sailboats" Chapters 1 & 2, Making a model, New books, Feedback: Power Skiff, Recent email
Feedback: Sweet Caroline, Missile on the web, More wood, Feedback: Bo-Jest, Dory man of Fiji, "The Dory Book", Marine plywood specifications, Recent email
Building the Tunnel King Part 2,
Drifter at Lava Falls, Squirts in MN,
Don Ruffa, Sailboat: Care of sails,
Boat Building in Skopelos, Recent email
Inboard shaft angle & layout,
Sailboat: Weather helm, Feedack: Utility,
Howard I. Chapelle, Recent email
Virgin Boatbuilder- Part 3,
True or false?, Glen-L test models,
4 new books, Recent email
Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival, Building the Thunderbolt, When to encapsulate, Builder feedback: Sea Kayak, Recent email
Old boat club: Thunderbolt, Virgin Boatbuilder- Part 2, Builder feedback: Riviera, Book review: How to Fiberglass Boats, Recent email
Feedback: Topper, Building the Tunnel King, New on the drawing board, Invictus and the Pacific, Book: Inboard Motor Installations,
Letter: Kid-Row, Recent email
New Inboard Hardware catalog, Mr. Pearsall's Boatbuilders, Steam Engine you can make, Plywood Boatbuilding for Virgin Builders-Part 1, JIMBO at last, Book: Boatbuilding with Plywood, Recent email
Feedback: PEE WEE, Feature: JIMBO,
More Plywood, Notes on Power Skiff,
Feedback: TNT, POXY-SHIELD: Bubbles
Feedback: TNT, Featured boat: Glen-L 10,
Joining plywood, Alfredo Rodriquez,
A Kick-up rudder, Epoxy Q & A,
Oar length
Feedback: Cabin Skiff, Windshields,
What do I need to build a boat (Tuffy),
Old boats: Missile, Featured boat: Amp Eater,
Poxy-Shield: Filling
Gayle Brantuk, Klondike/Polynesia,
Letter: Audeen, Drawing vs Designing,
New McDrift, Poxy-Shield: Working time,
Vee-Drive, Inboard hardware description
Boat Report: Cracker Box, Boatbuilding under fire, Planing vs Displacement boats, Lumber and Plywood long pieces, Allyn Perry, Scant plywood, Feature boat: Fife
Performance Report: Gypsy, Darla Schooler,
Fiberglassing a planing boat, Steamboat Jim,
Whitehall notes, Plywood facts