Keith 66

Anyone who picks up something like that & brings it in is a fool. You are liable to have some proper nasty people waiting for you as...

Too many stories.

Any ply sub deck will fail, it is the nature of the beast that they do, water gets in & rot starts. A builder i knew did a small run of...

Teak over plywood is always bad news once it gets old, too many screw holes & bungs & too many mastic lines to fail. Water will get in...

When Terry Griffiths bought her she was laying somewhere on the Bristol channel, he sailed her back to Essex in late november iirc. He...

I know Galante, by Robert Clark. Owned by Tom Raeburn for many years and kept on a mooring at Tighnabruaich during the summer and...

I remember Galante when she was at Dauntless boatyard in the early 90's, owned by a friend Terry Griffiths, he did a lot of good work on...

Just washed ours. Messenger lines sent up with 6mm polyprop rope. Soaked in flash & a bit of bleach in the shower tray overnight...

That is structural so needs fixing properly especially on a fast rowing boat like that, othrewise gunwales will flex when rowing & it...

316 is more expensive than ordinary commercial grade 304, Unfortunately some companies use the cheap stuff & pass it off as 316. Colour...

Excellent article, Having worked in the boat trade all my life it makes perfect sense. Eric spongbergs article on end of life boats in...

If you are building a new plywood catamaran you are not going to save the planet by worrying about what to sheath it with. Sheathing is...

There is also "Pitsea Marina" at Wat tyler country park but it can get rather wild west there. Some were launching at Leigh marina, dont...

I was working in a school as a D&T technician & my D&T teacher asked me to get her some composite samples & do a talk on it, The...

I tried flax fibre cloth a few years ago as had some samples. Seemed to work well. To be honest cant see as if there will be much...