Wayne.B wrote:
On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 07:46:00 -0500, HK wrote:

Oh...is Wayne still spreading his b.s. about how impossible it was to
build and sell wood dinghies and rowboats for a couple of hundred
dollars back in the 1950s?

Harry, unless I missed it somewhere, you never got around to telling
us about the boats that you actually built *yourself*. I'm sure we
could all learn something from you about lofting, wood selection and
construction techniques.




I'm sorry, Whine. I must missed the post in which you responded to this
b.s. of yours:


"No one in the 50s or 60s could afford to build a wooden boat bigger
than 7 ft for $200, even using the cheapest materials. "


As for the boats I built myself, I built a few dinghies and skiffs on my
own, none larger than 12'. The lofting and wood selection was done by my
father and his shop people, and I used the construction techniques they
taught me. I had patterns, used the shop tools to cut the wood, and used
mostly traditional methods to assemble the pieces. Stitch and glue was
not a technique I ever saw used in the shop. All the boats had frames.

I helped out on the construction and repair of larger boats. I vaguely
recall helping out on some hull repairs on a Lyman runabout, and that it
was a real bitch because the damned hull pieces were held together with
rivets.

What boats have *you* built yourself, Whine?




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