Recent content by Shearwater

Would someone be kind enough to advise me what adapter I need to ask for if I want to remove the rubber duck of an ICOM IC 31 and plug in co-ax cable when I use a home-made dipole aeriel for home use. Very many thanks.

Thank you, ordered.

I'm involved with Shore Support for a local independent patrol boat; we do have radios but I would like my own so if anyone has something surplus , working, reliable then please let me know, Ta muchly.

I have built scale half hulls of a couple of classics but now want to do a Colchester oyster smack, similar to the extant Katie (CK 52 from memory). Can anyone suggest where I can download fairly accurate lines which I can use in the sandwich system of building down from bulwarks to keel plate...

Can anyone advise where I can acquire for free lofting lines for a Colchester oyster smack as I would like to build a half-hull. Many tks.

Just logged in after many years. I remember the black shed there. My m & d took us mushrooming across the cow pastures in the very early 60's. Some other time they drove us out for an evening at the Plough and Sail; me with a fizzy orangeade in the garden with a packet of Smith's crisps with...

If you need a photo then you don't know the wreck. My photo is too large to upload.

Downstream of the quay at Orford is a decaying, yet highly photogenic wreck, complete with samphire and weed growing happily within the hull. Possibly a one-time ferry serving the island during the war but perhaps someone knows more?

All sorts of interesting words on Admiralty charts - does anyone know origin of "sunk" sea area??

Many thanks each and all.

"Kate has her channels on the bulwarks, peculiar to Paglesham smacks " .....can someone explain what this means please?

In the early sixties, winter time, I would ride my Triumph T110 bike from Thorpe Bay (Essex) to Creeksea to varnish the wooden boom and mast of a boat owned by one Ernie Turmaine, removal contractor, Southend. In return I sailed with him as crew most weekends in the summer. I cannot remember...

Brilliant people. Thanks so much for the eye -opener. I've already made Slocum's Spray without a separate transom (paint covers everything!) and the American R-Class 'Pirate' the stern of which is as sharp as a pencil..... but European classics need greater care and respect. If it works...

>...hope that says it all. I have spent hours trying to understand that the radius for expansion waterlines equals ther halfbreadth radius plus R. I'm trying to do a Folkboat, a picture is attached I hope. Can anyone here help me understand this ? I am quite intelligent but do have some...

Hi all. I haven't posted here for a long time since selling the boat and moving to Spain so hello again. I have recently built a number of dulcimers and cigar box guitars, too many - can't build any more. Active to want to do something else and my eyes have trembled seeing half hulls in...