Aug
12
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Wooden Boat Building
The development of Wooden Boat Building techniques led to the opening up of the world as never before. Whilst boats made of materials such as bark and reeds or animal hides stretched over lightweight frames, had been used since prehistoric times, it was not until mankind learnt to use timber, in a form other than the simple hollowed out log; that travel by water became more than a local excursion.
Much experimentation over many centuries, with materials and methods of both construction and propulsion, led to wooden boats growing in size to become mighty ships, this led to world wide systematic exploration, which was followed by trade and conquest. By the time wooden boats and ships were replaced by the modern examples constructed of iron and steel; or aluminium or fibreglass the whole world had been discovered, mapped and irretrievably linked together.
The crowning glory of the wooden boat age was the “Great Republic” the largest commercial wooden sailing vessel ever built. The three and four masted super sailors; “clipper” ships like the cutty sark; which plied the seas transporting tea and wool and grain, were mostly composite vessels made of timber over steel frames and can’t really be called wooden boats. Their reign over the seas lasted but a few years before they too were gone and with them the many of the traditional wooden boat building skills.
Today wooden boat building exists mainly in a few traditional areas still building small fishing or transportation vessels (mostly in third world countries) and to the world of pleasure boating. Sail and motor boats of all sizes, as well as dingys, dorys and other forms are still being constructed by craftsmen and a now growing band of enthusiasts.
Wooden Boat Building associations and clubs are springing up all over the world and schools dedicated to teaching what were mainly traditionally handed down crafts are found throughout England Europe and North America. Dedicated volunteers are signing on to restoration or replica projects and more and more individuals are committing themselves to building wooden boats.
There is nothing more satisfying than seeing the finished product, of sometimes months or even years of work, reach fruition by firstly surviving its launching and then proving itself seaworthy.
What are you going to do this winter, watch reruns on TV, worry about the midriff bulge or get out into your garage or workshop and get to work building a beautiful wooden boat. Then when spring arrives you can look forward to spending some time on the water, fishing, sailing, motoring about; whatever the project you undertake seeing it come to fruition will be a wonderful reward for some fulfilling winter work.
Timber is just the most wonderful material to work with it is buoyant, cheap, widely available and easily worked and the satisfaction of creating something from a natural traditional living material cannot exaggerated; even if the method and tools you may chose to use are modern, just working with wood takes you back to much simpler times when skill and craftsmanship were greatly admired. Wooden Boat Building plans and step by step instuctions are readily available, what are you waiting for, get started.
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Aug
11
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Wooden Boat Building
Pete Culler on Wooden Boats
If you are interested in Wooden Boats and Wooden Boat Building
there is one book you should have and this is it.
Renowned as one of the last and best of the old-time boatbuilders
Pete will inspire, inform and entertain you.
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His designs are classic melds of elegance and utility; his workmanship was akin to artistry; and his teaching and writing a blend of clarity, good sense, insight, and humor.
This book brings together the complete texts of Culler’s classic works Boats, Oars, and Rowing and Skiffs Catalogs and a selection of his timeless boat designs.
You will never regret buying this treasure of a book.
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Aug
08
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wooden model boat
A new vid I mad on Take That “Wooden Boat”!!! The only song, Jay sings alone as lead voice! A new program, so be kind with me!!!! 
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Aug
08
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wooden model boat
Album Info:
Released May 29, 1969
Recorded June 26, 1968 – April 3, 1969 at Wally Heider’s Studio III, Los Angeles
Genre Rock
Folk rock
Length 40:52
Label Atlantic
Producer Bill Halverson
David Crosby
Graham Nash
Stephen Stills
Crosby, Stills & Nash is the eponymous first album released by Crosby, Stills & Nash in 1969 on the Atlantic Records label. It spawned two Top 40 hits, “Marrakesh Express” and “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes,” which peaked respectively at #28 the week of August 23, 1969, and at #21 the week of October 25, 1969, on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. The album itself peaked at #6 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart.
Song Info:
Released 1969
Genre Rock
Length 5:29
Label Atlantic
Writer Stephen Stills
Paul Kantner
David Crosby
Composer David Crosby
“Wooden Ships” is a rock song written and composed by David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Paul Kantner (of Jefferson Airplane) in the late 1960s. The song was written and composed in Florida on Crosby’s boat. Crosby composed the music, and Stills and Kantner wrote most of the lyrics
Lyrics:
Stills: If you smile at me, I will understand
‘Cause that is something everybody everywhere does
in the same language.
Crosby: I can see by your coat, my friend,
you’re from the other side,
There’s just one thing I got to know,
Can you tell me please, who won?
Stills: Say, can I have some of your purple berries?
Crosby: Yes, I’ve been eating them for six or seven weeks now,
haven’t got sick once.
Stills: Probably keep us both alive.
Wooden ships on the water, very free and easy,
Easy, you know the way it’s supposed to be,
Silver people on the shoreline, let us be,
Talkin’ ’bout very free and easy…
Horror grips us as we watch you die,
All we can do is echo your anguished cries,
Stare as all human feelings die,
We are leaving – you don’t need us.
Go, take your sister then, by the hand,
lead her away from this foreign land,
Far away, where we might laugh again,
We are leaving – you don’t need us.
And it’s a fair wind, blowin’ warm,
Out of the south over my shoulder,
Guess I’ll set a course and go…
Duration : 0:5:28
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Aug
08
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wooden boat plans
e-mail from W.L. . . .
I think these are great and ideal for emergency teams.
I would be interested in procuring a couple of these for our
local emergency scuba team.
- Rescue instructor Program director – in reply to: Mr. W. L.; -
No, the emergency water crafts are not yet available . . .
Commandant Heinz, a chief officer of the U.S.C.G. evaluated other videos from the viewpoint of a
craft being used within open seas or basically in the middle of the ocean, and where that is
his job to have that perspective. He did like one of our versions, but hesitated to perceive the
craft being used as an open ocean environment rescue craft; and ultimately suggested the
craft remain as a recreational craft without further and first hand examination.
All water crafts, and especially an emergency water craft must begin with the U.S.C.G. testing
and rating their weight limits.
We do envision the craft meeting U.S.C.G. requirements as an inner coastal emergency water craft…
Myself and my two sons weigh about 450 pounds total. All three of us have
stood up within one version, and rocked it violently from side to side without going overboard.
Within the “no-parts”version, and other units which did not have elastic cords; we have
pushed all 4 sidewalls outward and downward to within 1 inch of the water’s surface without capsizing.
Envision dozens of the folded units being stacked on a single pallet for
storage or retail sales display, and where the end consumer unfolds the unit to
tear off or cut off the flat folding oars to insert within the sidewalls of the fully assembled water craft; and all without using any tools or parts, other than
possibly needing a pocket knife. ( The material is much tougher than it looks, and so does not tear away as easily as we thought it would in its perforated
attachment to the flat unfolded structure.) But my personal goal is to see an emergency craft with an attached means of propulsion which does not require any other
part or tool (pocket knife); and so, we are still working on that
particular concept of a pallet stacked with “no-parts” water crafts with their attached means of propulsion; ( the flat folding oars ).
In the video which shows 4 units with means of propulsion being deployed from a 5th water craft, you will hear chuckles of amazement as our camera person
and others on shore view the 4 emergency water crafts being deployed within 55 seconds. The most amazing part of that video is that any of the 4 units will stack
within any of the others.
Summarily, we are seeking a manufacturer /investor to take charge and
financially delegate the proper course.
– thank you, and congratulations on your ability to envision potential . . .
– the pioneerpaddlers –
emergencypaddler@gmail.com
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Aug
08
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wooden boat plans
http://www.TrustMyGuide.com/boatplans
Many of us, all of us, need something to build, houses, building, even a boat, but not everyone of us know how to build it, in this point we need nice plans to make what we’re going to build comes true. Boat, as you can imagine, is hard to build, that is why we need good boat plan. It can be obtained from companies specialized in the service or freelancers. But though, if we want to build it by ourselves, it takes a lot of time to plans and how if the plans not workng as we expected.
To learn more about Boat Plans, please visit :
http://www.TrustMyGuide.com/boatplans
Duration : 0:1:25
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Aug
08
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Wooden Boat Building Involvement
http://hackerboat.com – If you can dream it, we can build it. We build originals, not replicas. Each Hacker Wooden Boat Design (Sportboat, Runabout, Racer) can be custom-tailored to meet your unique requests or we can build an entirely custom boat, limited only by your imagination.For over a hundred years, Hacker-Crafts have been hand-built in America–one at a time–by some of the world’s finest boat building craftsmen.
Duration : 0:5:30
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Aug
08
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Wooden Boat Building Involvement
Time lapse Video of a Boat Jono and I built. The plans were bought from http://www.boatplans.dk/, plans were VERY easy to follow, and with the extra “boat building” course included, even we (completely clueless beginners) managed to build it! One photo taken every 5mins. There are a few jumpy bits where we forgot to set up the camera.
Duration : 0:4:40
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Aug
08
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Wooden Boat Building
I created this video for the Lake Union Virtual Museum, at lakeunionhistory.org. Dick Wagner of Seattle’s Center for Wooden Boats tells about the decades when Lake Union was ringed with shops building fine wooden boats.
Duration : 0:2:55
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Aug
08
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Wooden Boat Building
The sign outside Les Sims workshop reads “Wooden Boat Building, Visitors Welcome” he’s a passionate wooden boat restorer and this episode he tells you about his recent refurbishment of a Dinghy. Les is a down to earth character who welcomes you into his workshop and shows you round the boats he loves, so if youre passing through Devonport, Tasmania and you happen to see his sign out, head on in for a yarn.
“I am experiencing difficulties in uploading my entry onto the ABC’s Fanging it website so rather than have nothing come of my weekends work I have uplloaded it here and hope the ABC will view it and hopefully give me some useful feedback.”
Duration : 0:3:11
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