The Cape Dory Board

Raven has CNG and I feel it is the best fuel for a boat. The problem is finding fuel. My go to supplier, in RI quit there exchange program last year. I was able to get one tank exchanged in Stonington, Ct but they mentioned that they did not think they would able to get it much longer. There is the ...

The CD14 is very easy to launch and rig. It has a sliding Gunter rig, which allows all of the spars to fit inside the boat. So the mast is a 2" section that is less tan 14' and very easily stepped by one person. The real beauty of the Whitehall design is how well it rows. It glides through the ...

I use my boom vang, attached to one of the stanchion bases, to pull the boom over to one side. This will give you far less shading. Gotta love solar power.

Everyone I talked to, advised against repairing the Hurth transmission. I searched the internet for a better replacement and came up with the PRM60. It is an English transmission with a cone clutch and is less than 3/8" longer and deeper that the Hurth. It is also cheaper than having the Hurth ...

Once you glue and clamp the strips, they should retain the shape. I have aways heard that you should use, air dried wood, instead of kiln dried for bending. Most of the wood, l have is local air dried stuff, so l have no direct experince with kiln dried wood.

That should do it. I have been surprised at how very little spring back I have gotten when steam bending things. Since you plan to use a glue without, great gap filling qualities, you could sand the mating surfaces smooth, before the final glue up to get better contact. That should make a fine tille...

wikakaru wrote:

Steve Laume wrote:The hard part will be finding a metal gas can these days.

I like that you used an old Topsider Oil Changer for the boiler. Seems appropriate somehow.

--Jim

It works much better as a steam generator than it ever did as a oil changer.

Should have a little vent hole in the top. I wouldn't worry about the temperature. Just start your timing when you get a good show of steam, coming out of the vent hole. put the whole set up, somewhere where it will be okay if it drips. The tea kettle would probably work. I didn't seem to use a whol...

I made the steam bending set up out of stuff that I had laying around. I picked out a really crappy piece of rough cut pine and in hind sight I could have used a better piece but it works fine. The hard part will be finding a metal gas can these days. I have never bent anything that was very thick. ...

If you look, carefully, at the box, you will see the ends of some fiberglass rods that stick out the sides. These enable me to stack a bunch of strips in the box and still get good steam flow around them all.

Not sure the choice of white oak was the biggest problem with your first tiller. Even a mild bend in 5/8" stock is going to create a lot of tension and then the glue choice was not idea if the fit was not perfect or the joint was slightly starved because to the clamping pressure. I would defini...

This was laminated and glass covered.

I found it interesting that you chose to work with tapered strips, instead of using laminates of uniform thickness. It looks like the lamination failed where the strips are thickest, which was no surprise. One of the qualities of ash that you left out is that it bends very well. This is the most imp...

"Plus, with a few exceptions I think most people, with some practice, can do as well or often better than the so called pros. It all about a commitment to learning and making time for it." Some people will never be good craftsmen, or artists, musicians, writers, or sailors for that matter....

Went through some hellish conditions, with Raven, this winter. Did not have any keepers for the hatch boards and they never went anywhere. When things were bad, I would keep at least two in place and sometimes all of them with the slide closed tight. I probably should have had a way to secure them b...