In the Dominican Republic I sometimes find myself wanting to take sailing lessons on Juanillo Beach. Maybe next winter. I've also been following the far more sophisticated wooden boat-building effort of Leo Sampson and the Tally Ho. All of this helps explain why I watched this video. And a big part of this is simply an interest in "other kinds of homebrew workshops."
There is some practical advice for us: The importance of pilot holes. The fact that Philip head screws sometimes break (who knew?).
Check it out. Thanks to Hack-A-Day for alerting us to this. And thanks to the Cumberland Rover guy.
Highly Recommend!! Do the lessons, and if you look for your own sailboat, get (or build!) one with more freeboard than his skif, especially if you are in the waters of the DR or Chesapeake.
ReplyDeleteBack in 1965-68, my Dad and I built a 20 ft wooden sailboat based on William F. Crosby's "Trivia" design. It was all marine ply, oak keel, 25 ft aluminum mast, and "Marconi" rig for guying/staying. We went through buckets of brass Phillips head screws, did the pilot holes and drove the screws with Yankee screwdrivers. Yes, all by hand-hundreds! Dad had a PhD in Re-purposing! Any knack for homebrewing (everything) was from him.
We named it the "Mary Joan" after my Mom, and sailed it for years in the Barnegat Bay. Crosby's design was brilliant. She was a better boat than her crew, no doubt. The 4.5 ft steel retractable centerboard allowed us to go anywhere in the shallows. The Barnegat had those!
You won't find much on Crosby's "Trivia" design, but he had another design that was (and still is) wildly popular--The Snipe!
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