My
Backyard Boats:
Archive
of On Deck log entries: 23
September 02
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Build
a boat, build a fleet
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September 02: What
builder of boats is content with projects in hand? I would wager
that most of us have one or more boats in mind.I have had my
eye on a Jim Michalak prototype design called Musicbox
3, which has water ballast on a 15-foot
sailboat hull reminiscent of Phil Bolger's Micro, which I would
love to built except that I refuse to monkey with pouring a
450-pound lead keel. Another design I'm looking at has a sloop
rig (always wanted a sloop rig and haven't made one yet) on
an 8-foot pram designed by a retired engineer in Tennessee.
He built the prototype out of poplar, which I'm going to start
using in place of pine, after reading an article by a wood expert
in a recent issue of Messing About in Boats. I like the idea
of building a few small, small boats, because we are still enjoying
the heck out of the Harmonica,
and another big boat would only compete with the one we have
and are enjoying.
