October 18, 2011. This is the first day of building Sam Devlin’s new plans for his trailerable sailboat “Eider”. This gaff rig sloop is approximately 18′ LOD. I started at 7:30 am and ended my day at 2:00 pm. I first laid out the seven (7) 4×8 sheets of 1/2″ plywood and scarfed them at…
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Firewood and Eider
October 15-16, 2011. This weekend Jody and I completed our last outside job, getting the last 1 1/2 cords of firewood bucked, split, hauled and stacked in the new woodshed. Here are a couple of photos of my driver, she’s a good worker! This coming week I plan to start on Sam Devlin’s newly re-designed,…
Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival – Last Day
September 11, 2011. Sunday, this is the last day of the Festival. This year was as good as it gets if you’re a boat person. The weather was perfect!!! The boats that were exhibited were exceptional, the music, food and special classes were all great. Our boat “Rachel”, hull one of Sam Devlin’s Pelicano series,…
Abi Gale Sail
This last Sunday a friend, Peter, who has years of sailing experience arrived. I rigged Abi Gale with a gaff rigg, spirit boom set up. We had a very light on shore wind and launched her from our little beach on the Columbia River. It took Peter a minute or two to get situated, and…
Abi Gale – Cathlamet Wooden Boat, Show Best in Class
It’s been awhile since my last post. I finished “Abi gale” and entered her in the Cathlamet Wooden Boat Show. She won best in her class! I picked up her sail last week and still need to rig it. Hopefully, I’ll get to it this coming weekend, so I can post a few photos of…
Abigail E – Happy 4th!
Last week I got to finish the boat by building the oars and the two boom sticks. It was a great week. The weather was perfect, and the fish were biting! I went out one morning and caught 2 nice, summer run salmon. I’ve been talking about the salmon fishing in the last few post,…
Abigail E – Dagger Board, Oar Locks
This last week I got to spend two days on the 3 plank lap strake rowing/sailing dinghy. The first day I constructed the dagger board trunk along with the dagger board itself. That same day, I also completed her construction by building the two sets of oarlock mounts. I disassembled and epoxied all into place….
Abigail E – Coming Close
This last week, I worked on the boat for only a day and a half. The summer run of Chinook is in along with a strong run of summer steelhead. So I had good luck fishing with my friend John onboard “Rachel.” One of the days we hooked 8 salmon and steelhead and lost all…
Abigail E – Transformed to Cedar Pram
Here is another post on Abigail E. This last week I had a chance to work on the “Abigail E” as well as catch 2 nice summer run chinook salmon. It was a good week! I have decided NOT to make the “Abigail E” a Wheelbarrow boat; no wheel for this little vessel. Henry is…
Abigail E – Wheelbarrow Boat, More Freeboard
This last weekend was a busy one, I took “Rachel” out with a friend and we caught two spring salmon – 1) 30 pounder and 1) 8 pounder and 1) 10 pound Steelhead. The best part, it was sunny and beautiful out on the Lower Columbia river. There’s lots of run off this year, the…