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Single-handed yachting hero Blondie Hasler
Weblog 70.8% has an interesting piece this morning on single-handed sailing pioneer, self-steering inventor and junk rig specialist Blondie Hasler this morning.
See the weblog post at 70.8% and the Wikipedia entry for Hasler – they’re especially worth reading if you don’t already know about the man.
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How to build the $15 canoe, 1876-style
The $15 figure is at 1876 prices, I’m sorry to say. In this excerpt from a Scientific American Supplement dated that year, Victorian-era writer Paddlefast provides offsets and the rest for a canoe with a simple hull that looks eminently buildable by either clinker or strip-planking methods.
In our time, we’d build it with water-tight compartments fore and aft, but many details could easily remain the same. For example, clever details here including halliards that are led forward through a block to provide forestays, and the drawings include outriggers for rowing.
Thanks here go to Craig O’Donnell, proprieter of the always-intriguing Cheap Pages.
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Norm Lehman’s superb sailing canoe built to
Michael Storer’s Beth plans
Michael Storer’s flat-bottomed Beth sailing canoe looks wonderful to me – fast, fun, beguilingly good looking in photos on the water, and simple to build. So it’s nice to hear of a new one being built by Norm Lehman. See the Woodwork Forums thread, Norm’s Flickr photo collection, and of course the Michael’s own web page about Beth.
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