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The skin-on-frame outrigger comes along,as best it can,indoorsThe skin-on-frame outrigger comes along,as best it can,indoors

Posted on February 18th,2010

I believe I have mentioned that I work in sub-optimal conditions for a boat-builder,even one focusing on small craft. Our house is modest and my workshop is in the basement,overrun by stuff in storage. I count on being able to work outside,but this gloriously snowy winter (yes,I said “gloriously”–snow [...]

After a drawing-board and holiday hiatus,we are making sawdust again on the skin-on-frame outrigger projectAfter a drawing-board and holiday hiatus,we are making sawdust again on the skin-on-frame outrigger project

Posted on January 19th,2010

So we went back to the drawing board for a bit on the skin-on-frame outrigger canoe project,as we noted last month. It was a productive venture –we made some improvements,got a lot of problems solved,and got some useful planning in. We confess,though,that we were eager to get back into [...]

Milestone reached in the skin-on-frame ourigger canoe project – framing for the ama is done!

Posted on September 30th,2009

We are thrilled to report a major milestone reached in our latest boatbuilding project:the skin-on-frame outrigger canoe. The frame for the ama is all done and,while there a few things I can quibble with –namely the lines around the bow –on the whole I am pretty pleased with it.

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More sparring,partner –Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum “Apprentice for a Day”part II

Posted on April 17th,2008

I got out to to Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s Apprentice for a Day program again this past weekend and had another great day. First of all,the Delaware Ducker has a full combing,the beginnings of a paint-job,and a cleaned up false-stem. She is looking lovely.

For work,I got to finish my [...]

Introducing myself to the Delaware Ducker – apprenticing again at Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum

Posted on April 6th,2008

For Christmas this year,Mrs. Chine bLog again gave me a four-pack of days apprenticing with Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s Apprentice for a Day program. You may recall my very happy time doing this last year. This is SUCH a sweet deal. For $25 ($15 if you do the right thing and join the [...]

Building the Peace Canoe –time on the Moaning Chair

Posted on August 5th,2007

At the beginning of Howard Chapelle’s seminal tome Boatbuilding,there is a 4-page introduction in which Chapelle goes through the entire building process at a 10,000′level. After talking through getting out molds,cutting the rabbet,and installing deck beams,Chapelle devotes the final paragraph to a subject that one must assume is of equal [...]

More on the Peace Canoe –scarfing sheer clamps and chine logs

Posted on June 23rd,2007

While I wait on the plywood I have been preparing the sheer clamps and chine logs,which I took out of 10′and 12′1x. I thus have had to –and the write-up in Getting Started in Boats assumes this –scarf pieces together for these fore-and-aft members. I am not a very steady [...]

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