The Jalopy Journal
Generally speaking, with boats (and aircraft structure too) you want to avoid kiln dried wood at all costs. The Kiln drying process, since it uses...
As originally built Duffy had White Oak Frames, the other structural framing/blocking was Douglas Fir and the planking was Alaskan Yellow Cedar...
Marcus, Theres a lot to unpack in that post, but I'll try as best as I can. I'll be a little out of order with the questions because it'll make...
That pretty much brings us up to date. I’m still stuck in finish and detail work purgatory, but the last plank went on the bottom in the last few...
Finally Duffy was starting to look like herself again. The hull was fair enough to stop for now… [IMG] …and I could start working on that last...
Thanks @El Hueso I had some helpers at the time that were attending to the refastening duties on the bottom and hull sides, so I took the...
We started making new planks and putting them on to keep rain and critters out of the new work. [IMG] Then we started stripping the entire hull...
Before we took on Duffy we did our due diligence and had her surveyed to keep us from inheriting a bad boat. The survey came back great, the boat...
In the last weeks of my enrollment at the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding, Duffy moved back into the yard at Port Townsend’s Boat Haven....
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