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That is an excellent example of an old gelcoat that is failing all over, Its what happens eventually. As to what you can do? Sand it all...

Sounds good. Scarfs should be 12:1 on masts. Personally, I would remove the step and scarf in a single piece of wood. It is a bit...

There have been several threads on the subject of end of life boats on her over the last few years. Every boatyard & Yacht Club has to...

Kept my powder dry listening to wooden answers from the usual cardboard suspects, miles off target . Here’s my 0.02 p worth people...

A perhaps overlooked aspect of this type of hull form is ease of righting. My whitehall was a light open wooden boat with no bouyancy...

Great video, I thought she was Whitehall inspired, for those interested in naval architecture its worth looking at the lines plan he...

The LB ratio isnt really enough to exceed the hull speed limitation, her rowing boat inspired hull will make her fast & easily driven...

Interesting boat, its lack of beam & wineglass transom suggest a Whitehall or similar ancestry, I built a similar though more extreme...

A few years ago, anchored up in Stangate creek, a 30ft yacht anchors near us with a smaller yacht rafted up, far enough away, at HW...

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...