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- Sat Dec 26, 2020 12:13 am
- Forum: Alloy Boat Forum
- Topic: Hello.. new member and need assistance
- Replies: 26
- Views: 16807
Re: Hello.. new member and need assistance
Ask me how many times I've seen this....
- Tue Oct 06, 2020 12:14 am
- Forum: Alloy Boat Forum
- Topic: Help pricing a hull
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4047
Re: Help pricing a hull
One might not believe this but I haven't visited this site in a looong time. Perhaps it's because I'm about to embark on another skiff project and I'm twitchy but here I am. AND, as usual, I will up Kevin's comments! I can only add to what the scrap value is - today, which is likely less than the la...
- Thu Jan 31, 2019 10:08 pm
- Forum: Alloy Boat Forum
- Topic: Electrolysis
- Replies: 19
- Views: 16380
Re: Electrolysis
"Been using whatever the skipper wants on my boats since the 1970's - ("the Skipper is Always Right" being the builders' adage). But my own stuff has been hot dipped for a long time, and there's no risk in low galvanic potential metals in near proximity to one another. Unless 70 years...
- Thu Apr 12, 2018 12:04 am
- Forum: Alloy Boat Forum
- Topic: New From My Shop
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5115
New From My Shop
The latest from my shop, a 7M nose-picker sport runabout. Did this for a young man that I've known since he was born, now a marine pilot. Tip top client in that he knows my edge and can deal with it. For youins that are interested in the welding aspects of skiff building, the only thing interesting ...
- Sun Mar 04, 2018 12:55 am
- Forum: Alloy Boat Forum
- Topic: Recent Chine Extrusion Experience
- Replies: 28
- Views: 21858
Re: Recent Chine Extrusion Experience
One more thing: Kevin, how do you go about the repair? I've always turned it away, period.
- Sun Mar 04, 2018 12:50 am
- Forum: Alloy Boat Forum
- Topic: Recent Chine Extrusion Experience
- Replies: 28
- Views: 21858
Re: Recent Chine Extrusion Experience
Ooops! I meant 5086, not 5356...
- Sun Mar 04, 2018 12:45 am
- Forum: Alloy Boat Forum
- Topic: Recent Chine Extrusion Experience
- Replies: 28
- Views: 21858
Re: Recent Chine Extrusion Experience
My nature wants me to name names because this is the most common method of chine construction on what I call cookie-cutter skiffs, and it's a very bad idea! I'll go with what Kevin suggests, for his intelligent reasons, for now. Why even do this? Because it's attractive, protective of impact and mos...
- Thu Aug 13, 2015 10:08 pm
- Forum: Share your Projects and Creations
- Topic: 25' Skiff
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8494
Re: 25' Skiff
At the end of my career, I work alone for the most part or try to as much as I can. One of the most daunting things to do by self is to flip the thing over and back. For me, my method is a work in progress. I have an overhead track down the center of a modest size shop with two chainfalls. I've buil...
- Thu Aug 13, 2015 9:44 pm
- Forum: Share your Projects and Creations
- Topic: 25' Skiff
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8494
Re: 25' Skiff
On the welding fixture 'hog trough' does the gun lay with the case on the outside (right side in posted pic) and the barrel just hanging over the blue plastic slide pipe? The 30A gun has a fairly large front of case panel if I recall (?) so the gun is kept the exact distance from the weld as it tra...
- Sat Aug 08, 2015 10:59 pm
- Forum: Share your Projects and Creations
- Topic: 25' Skiff
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8494
Re: 25' Skiff
In the end, there may be only two things that viewers may find useful from my efforts. The first is to download AddBlock and use it to wipe out those irritating and awful smilies that crawl around like blowflies on a moose carcass to the right of the text box. I've never used them and never will and...
- Fri Aug 07, 2015 9:32 pm
- Forum: Share your Projects and Creations
- Topic: 25' Skiff
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8494
Re: 25' Skiff
Kevin, Body plan attached. kmorin's quote: She's very full forward, her work boat heavy load heritage showing? and she has the T bottom aft where the engine mount's lowers are the bottom plane extended. On the 20'er's did this bottom work so well you've gone to that configuration as your solution to...
- Fri Jul 24, 2015 12:38 am
- Forum: Share your Projects and Creations
- Topic: 25' Skiff
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8494
25' Skiff
Here is lines view of the skiff I'm building now. 25'x8' 6", 15* at the stern, has a cabin, self-bailing deck. 3/16" sides, 1/4" bottom. It's an iteration of a design I've been working on for awhile. Surface modeling done in ProSurf. Major parts cut CNC plaz by Alaska Steel, Anchorage...
- Thu Jul 23, 2015 12:14 am
- Forum: Welcome New Members
- Topic: Another old noob
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5475
Re: Another old noob
Thanks for the replys. I'm located in Homer, AK and yes, Kevin and I communicate. As a matter of fact, I owe him some 'spainin as I haven't been responding as I should. My daughter is getting married on the 2nd next month (and relocating, all at once) and I'm awfully behind on this boat is my lame e...
- Sat Jul 11, 2015 11:44 am
- Forum: Welcome New Members
- Topic: Another old noob
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5475
Another old noob
New guy that's really an old guy that builds AL boats of my own design. Here is a pic of the latest start - a 25' cabin skiff. To those who might know: is there a way to get rid of those horrid emoticons doing mischief over there on the right? It's like flies crawling around on a page that you're wr...
- Sat Jul 05, 2014 2:06 am
- Forum: Custom Skiff Build
- Topic: Net Skiff Build
- Replies: 56
- Views: 56500
Re: Net Skiff Build
Lordy, recently I've had the pleasure of having some discourse with K. Morin on several topics. I find myself giving him the hat tip quite often. What a generous resource this man is! I read this series and could only feel good, and, amazed.