August 2009
Scruffie Marine
Submitted by cac on Mon, 2009-08-31 20:29
Scruffie Marine is an Australian company with some neat designs, geared mostly around their "slotted plywood" kits. They provide the frame pieces all cut from marine plywood, ready to slide together. Self aligning and well engineered. The kits include everything you need except glue, or if you like, they will build it for you.
Looks pretty nice (although I really with they didn't discriminate against the Firefox web browser :-).
NMEA announces Technology Award, & shows some tech leg
The 2008 NMEA Convention in San Diego prompted many Panbo entries last October, and I'm hoping the return to Fort Myers this year will be at least as interesting. One new feature of note is a Technology Award that will be judged by yours truly and three other BWI boating writers. read more »
X-bow - modern interpretation of ancient design
Submitted by cac on Mon, 2009-08-31 10:59High speed turn
Submitted by cac on Sun, 2009-08-30 10:01This has been floating around the net a bit... impressive to me to see a ship that size making maneuvers like that. (Click the picture for a full size version).
13-year old making solo round-the-world?
Submitted by cac on Sat, 2009-08-29 21:20Well, not right now... seems a little young to me, but many years ago, many people did things a lot younger than we do now. Raises some interesting questions, but I am glad to see young people still wanting to learn and do.
"I want simply to learn about the world and to live freely."
Mad Mariner™ has a series on young sailors starting next week that will be worth a look if this interests you.
A Dutch court has put a 13-year-old girl under state care for two months, stalling her bid to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world. read more »
Inshore Power Boats
Submitted by cac on Fri, 2009-08-28 22:30
Interesting looking little boat. They seem to have quite the active users/owners forum. read more »
Ants and Wasps
Submitted by v28build on Fri, 2009-08-28 22:21Not really boat build related... the only thing I did on the boat was pump out some of the torrential rain we had this morning, and the spray the ants that were coming onboard in three different places. I guess it has the ant seal of approval.
Was also moving some other junk around (preparing to get rid of it tomorrow) near the boat and suddenly found myself seeing wasps. Then more wasps. Had a bottle of spray sitting there and used it, but it was about empty and I ran out of spray before the nest in the junk ran out of wasps. read more »
Fishing off the East Anglian coast in 1954
Who’s this old boy then? I wonder, was he a singer, a step dancer or a fiddle or melodeon as well as a film star? Does anyone have a story to tell? read more »
