Hi! I think this list can be a great source of encouragement, advice, interesting debate and a whole lot more - if that's what we want it to be. So here's my...
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Gavin
gmatkin@xxxxx.xxxx
Apr 9, 1999 9:05 pm
I'd be grateful to know how people rate the books and other sources that they've seen - it seems to me that each time I pick up a design book that's new to me...
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Gavin
gmatkin@xxxxx.xxxx
Apr 9, 1999 9:45 pm
The boatdesign list has recruited five list members within the first few hours... Why not break some ice by introducing ourselves? My name's Gavin Atkin. I'm a...
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Chuck Leinweber
duckworks@xxxxxxxx.xxxx
Apr 10, 1999 3:19 pm
Greetings: I am following Gavin's lead with a short introduction. My name is Chuck Leinweber. I live in the Texas hill country a couple of hours west of...
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Dan Miller
5lakes@...
Apr 10, 1999 2:09 pm
... I am Dan Miller, and I've been building and restoring wood/canvas and glued-lapstrake canoes for a number of years. My interests in design are...
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Dan Miller
5lakes@...
Apr 10, 1999 2:16 pm
... Here are a few I look at most often: "The Shape of the Canoe" by John Winters is a fairly technical treatise on design as it relates to canoes and kayaks....
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Paul VandenBosch
admin@...
Apr 10, 1999 2:22 pm
Hi Gavin, and greetings to the group; I live on the shore of Lake Michigan and have an interest in small open water boats. I have built two canoes and am...
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MIKE GOODWIN
panmanii@...
Apr 10, 1999 6:33 pm
Hello fellow boatbuilders, I'm Mike Goodwin, I've been building boats from time to time all of my life since a child .Currently I work in a co-op shop with 2...
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Gavin
gmatkin@...
Apr 10, 1999 5:53 pm
Well, now we are eight, we're a pretty varied bunch. Chuck - anyone who is prepared to take on an indexing job such as you are planning has my admiration. If...
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Chuck Leinweber
duckworks@...
Apr 11, 1999 1:21 am
... my ... Thanks for the links, Gavin. I will use them. Right now I am working my way through the "designs" list on John Kohnen's site. At first I thought...
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Gavin
gmatkin@...
Apr 10, 1999 6:27 pm
Chuck, I do sympathise about the boat. You were very brave to go for a large self-designed project! I won't tell a soul. Console yourself with the thought that...
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Gavin
gmatkin@...
Apr 10, 1999 7:05 pm
Thinking about the question of how to make an attractive dory - isn't it acceptable, at least in Banks-style dories - to simply use the equivalent of the...
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Chuck Leinweber
duckworks@...
Apr 11, 1999 3:07 am
... Not so large, Gavin. It was a 16' cruising cat. Come to think of it, that says it all. ... Actually I am only indexing the ones on the web right now....
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kandlew
kandlew@xxxxx.xxxx
Apr 11, 1999 4:14 pm
Go a little slower! Let's start with one thread and let it build naturally. All design factors are valid in all scales, RC models to aircraft carriers. Wind,...
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kandlew
kandlew@xxxxx.xxxx
Apr 11, 1999 4:46 pm
Ok, my intro - kandlew@... is Lew Clayman of Maryland (K is not especially pro-boat). I am fascinated by boat design because it is such a strange a...
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Gavin
gmatkin@xxxxx.xxxx
Apr 10, 1999 10:43 pm
... I always talk too much. And there aren't many people you can talk to about small boat design! ... Oh I'm not sure... some things are liner, some are...
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Paul VandenBosch
admin@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Apr 11, 1999 11:31 pm
Date: Sunday, April 11, 1999 5:37 AM Subject: [boatdesign] Digest Number 1 ... Hi Chuck, I enjoyed your magazine very much, it sounds like you've added a lot,...
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Gavin
gmatkin@xxxxx.xxxx
Apr 12, 1999 12:23 am
... I've had some success with Gregg's software. It produces shapes that work, and will help you to nest them - it produces a set of coordinates that you can...
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kandlew
kandlew@xxxxx.xxxx
Apr 12, 1999 12:48 am
Toldja I was an opinionated bastard. This time it wasm my opinion that I understood your question. Clearly not. ... Sorry, never meant that they all vary...
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Dan Miller
5lakes@xxxx.xxxx
Apr 12, 1999 1:07 am
... Oh, it's still there - but its fivelakes, not firelakes (though the latter is a bit catchier...) Better yet, I've moved it to my new site ...
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MIKE GOODWIN
panmanii@xxxx.xxxx
Apr 12, 1999 2:20 am
I found Plyboats to be a very nice program , well documented and good support via. e-mail from Ray Clark. The Beta version looks even better according to Len...
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Gavin
gmatkin@xxxxx.xxxx
Apr 12, 1999 3:30 am
... You did, and that's cool. ... that's those bows for you! narrow?? ... dunno ... I'll get a copy one day, not least because I like the full title so much. ...
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kandlew
kandlew@xxxxx.xxxx
Apr 12, 1999 11:49 pm
... Your earlier note mentioned how well Bricks stay "on the straight and narrow" - well I get the fun of tacking about twice as many times as pointy boats...
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Frank Ellinghaus
ellingh@xxxxx.xxxx
Apr 13, 1999 2:00 pm
Hello, my name is Frank Ellinghaus. I´m from Germany but now live in USA in Maryland near Washington-DC. While I searched for a plan to build a kajak (I built...
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kandlew
kandlew@xxxxx.xxxx
Apr 13, 1999 3:00 pm
... First question - as it is a kit, have you contacted the manufacturer? Remember the "Doctor's First Law" - first, Do No Harm. That said, moving the mast...
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Frank Ellinghaus
ellingh@xxxxx.xxxx
Apr 14, 1999 1:24 pm
... From: kandlew <kandlew@...> To: <boatdesign@onelist.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 1999 11:00 AM Subject: [boatdesign] Re: new member/cat rig, lee...
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Chuck Leinweber
duckworks@xxxxxxxx.xxxx
Apr 14, 1999 7:29 pm
... of ... Frank: How about an off center mizzen a la Phil Bolger. Mount the mast at one corner of the transom, then a boomkin(bumpkin?) below it. (See...
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Gavin
gmatkin@xxxxx.xxxx
Apr 12, 1999 2:10 pm
May I ask what sort of rig the supplier recommends, and what sort of sail you now have please? From a library copy of Phil Bolger's book 100 Small Boat Rigs,...
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MIKE GOODWIN
panmanii@xxxx.xxxx
Apr 14, 1999 8:59 pm
Frank, Have you tried raking the mast out of plumb either forward or aft ? A little change can make a lot of differance , also shifting your weight fore or aft...
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MIKE GOODWIN
panmanii@...
Apr 15, 1999 12:10 pm
Has anyone had experience building Laurent Giles " Jollie Boat " or Selways Fisher " Tosher " ? We are looking to build a very traditional U.K. gaffer , that...
