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Forum: Fishing, Recreation & Fun 25-02-2014, 20:28
Replies: 724
Views: 140,909
Posted By MichaelC
Re: What is Your Favorite Quote?

The 'do be drownded' is an old Celtic fisherman saying - originally Welch, I think, but might be Irish. [Certainly not Scottish, since there is no sense of humor there].
Forum: Fishing, Recreation & Fun 24-02-2014, 22:10
Replies: 724
Views: 140,909
Posted By MichaelC
Re: What is Your Favorite Quote?

There be those who do not be afraid of the sea
And they do be drownded.
But we do be afraid of the sea,
And we only be drownded now and again.
Forum: Rules of the Road, Regulations & Red Tape 22-02-2014, 18:06
Replies: 33
Views: 3,852
Posted By MichaelC
Re: Washington State proposed NDZ

I used to be a 'bucket and chuck it' guy, but I no longer agree with it, unless you are more than 12 miles out in the ocean. However, as long as one municipality continues to expel polluted water...
Forum: Health, Safety & Related Gear 05-02-2014, 16:13
Replies: 12
Views: 1,533
Posted By MichaelC
Re: Have you used "fuel tablets"?

I am a backpacker as well as a sailor. I bought some REI Esbit tablets. You can have the ones I got. Useless as far as I am concerned. In a 30 ft boat, if you are already set up with a wood stove,...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 21-01-2014, 20:28
Replies: 10
Views: 2,483
Posted By MichaelC
re: Sailing Dingies

Joel White's Shellback, 11'3", rigged as a sprits'l catboat. Good boat.
Forum: General Sailing Forum 16-12-2013, 20:16
Replies: 19
Views: 3,624
Posted By MichaelC
Re: What really happened to "Joshua"?

I have been trying to remember the year that I saw Joshua in Port Townsend, after the debacle in Cabo. She was still heavily dented, I think it was in her port bow area, but still sailing. I...
Forum: Health, Safety & Related Gear 26-09-2013, 10:09
Replies: 46
Views: 7,720
Posted By MichaelC
Re: Sea Sickness Thread....Again

This really worked for me. Do not say it will work for others. I am very sensitive to medications - and drugs. Try to stay away from both. I was really sea sick for a long time, but a friend...
Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit 11-09-2013, 17:48
Replies: 9
Views: 1,198
Posted By MichaelC
Re: Samsom Posts

Red oak will rot fairly quickly. It doesn't have to be oak, however. I am building a 34' schooner, and the samson posts [one each end of the double ender] will be 6X6 douglas fir. They will...
Forum: Navigation 26-08-2013, 09:18
Replies: 16
Views: 9,093
Posted By MichaelC
Re: These World Maps may mess with your mind!

Love these maps. I had my students build a false wall and put a 10X20 mercator projection up for a backboard, dry erase surface. I wanted to build a Bucky Fuller Dymaxion inside out big enough to...
Forum: Deck hardware: Rigging, Sails & Hoisting 06-08-2013, 18:29
Replies: 15
Views: 2,691
Posted By MichaelC
Re: Ropes on a Brig

A brig is not a brigantine, and a ketch with squaresail on the main is not a brig nor is it a brigantine. And the sails are, as others have noted here, managed with lines, sheets and halyards. If...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 26-05-2013, 09:13
Replies: 66
Views: 6,915
Posted By MichaelC
Re: Wood for interior

If you can find tight grain douglas fir it will serve nicely as flooring. I used red oak on the sole of my schooner and it lasted very well with no blackening. Yellow cedar is a nice cabinetry...
Forum: Rules of the Road, Regulations & Red Tape 26-05-2013, 09:05
Replies: 128
Views: 22,929
Posted By MichaelC
Re: Traveling abroad without a passport

Any skipper who would take such an individual with him is an idiot.
Forum: Deck hardware: Rigging, Sails & Hoisting 19-05-2013, 18:03
Replies: 26
Views: 24,073
Posted By MichaelC
Re: bowsprit design

I would shy away from using a piece of a standard aluminum mast. On my aluminum schooner, I used an 10' piece of aluminum schedule 40 irrigation pipe, 8" diameter. You need side stays, plus a...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 29-04-2013, 11:45
Replies: 14
Views: 4,283
Posted By MichaelC
Re: Can we replace a Wheel with a Tiller?

I had both wheel and tiller setups in my Colvin aluminum schooner. There really was not much difference in control. I used the tiller when sailing long distance because it allowed cheap and easy...
Forum: Pacific & South China Sea 16-04-2013, 13:20
Replies: 63
Views: 9,372
Posted By MichaelC
Re: sailing BC waters engineless?

Lots of very good advice and examples given here. I sailed my Colvin gaff schooner for ten years with no engine. Had a couple of tough spots, but who hasn't in ten years of sailing. Going thru the...
Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit 15-04-2013, 21:11
Replies: 494
Views: 127,766
Posted By MichaelC
Re: Happiness is a Warm Spool Gun

Steve, your workmanship is awesome. I remember when you were little, no mechanical device was safe in the same house. You had this overwhelming need to figure out how they worked so you...
Forum: Deck hardware: Rigging, Sails & Hoisting 29-03-2013, 20:42
Replies: 24
Views: 4,651
Posted By MichaelC
Re: Protection of gal rigging

Stretch your rigging wire between two strong [STRONG] attachments. Wrap the wire with CLOTH electrician tape [not plastic]. Consult Brian Toss' book Rigger's Apprentice. Make the flying mallet and...
Forum: Plumbing Systems and Fixtures 28-03-2013, 21:18
Replies: 49
Views: 56,951
Posted By MichaelC
Re: C-Head, Natures Head or Air Head- which is best overall

I have been using my NH for two years in a 30' 5th wheel while building the 34' sailboat it will eventually go into. [Well, okay, mostly playing, but some building, too ...] The fan has been...
Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit 20-03-2013, 08:30
Replies: 21
Views: 11,932
Posted By MichaelC
Re: How long does it take to build your own boat

Your question had to do with building a boat. Most answers had to do with building a yacht. There is a huge difference in time, money and stress. Read works by Tom Colvin and George Buehler. ...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 16-03-2013, 12:34
Replies: 46
Views: 10,713
Posted By MichaelC
Re: Will a wooden or plastic boat last longest, if maintained?

I build wooden boats. I love the process, as well as the result. I have owned boats of fiberglass, aluminum and wood. The glass boat hardly got used because it didn't 'talk' to me. The aluminum...
Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit 06-02-2013, 12:23
Replies: 88
Views: 48,550
Posted By MichaelC
Re: Steel boat building price and advise???

Check the Gazelle recommended by Panope. As long as it surveys well, you will never find a better sea boat. I love the building process, so I do my own. Unless you are in love with the process,...
Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit 23-12-2012, 12:34
Replies: 7
Views: 1,250
Posted By MichaelC
Re: changing the draft on a sail boat

Definitely direct your questions to a naval architect, preferably one who has lots of experience with the type boat you are purchasing.
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 15-10-2012, 10:12
Replies: 25
Views: 14,584
Posted By MichaelC
Re: Going from fiberglass to aluminum

Metal Boatbuilding Society has an informative journal. See Tom Colvin's books, also Gilbert Klingel. Michael Kasten Yacht Design. If I could afford it, the boat I am building would be aluminum...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 28-05-2012, 19:18
Replies: 97
Views: 34,348
Posted By MichaelC
Re: The Perfect Dinghy

Look at Joel White's designs - either the 9' Nutshell, or the 11' shellback. I have used both, and both are excellent boats. Downside is you have to build them. Do not use 1/4" ply. Use 3/8". do...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 02-04-2012, 18:54
Replies: 1,416
Views: 441,942
Posted By MichaelC
Re: Shoestring Sailors (Cruising on $500 per month - part II)

These threads always come down to the same thing. If you are competent enough to do for yourself, you do not need the gadgetry so prevalent in modern American society. If you cannot handle living...
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