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by Grace Ombry WEST SYSTEM®, Chesapeake Light Craft (CLC) and nine family groups joined forces at the 2010 WoodenBoat Show at Mystic Seaport in Connecticut this June for the Family Build Weekend to build nine Sassafras 16 kit canoes. With only a blue and white striped rental tent to shield them from the unseasonably hot weather […]
Testing Epoxy’s Adhesion to White Oak By Bruce Niederer — GBI Technical Advisor People have been building boats using white oak for centuries, sacrificing blood, sweat, and tears to engineer wonderful and enduring vessels of all shapes and sizes. Oak was often used because of its desirable properties and behavior. It is dense, strong, rot-resistant, holds […]
By Grace Ombry Renovo Hardwood Bicycles Meade Gougeon was intrigued by the Renovo Bikes company of Portland, Oregon after spotting their wares on display at the Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend, Washington last fall. Meade has long been a serious cyclist and understands better than most the value of wood as an engineering material. […]
A Professional Technique By Tom Pawlak — GBI Technical Advisor When repairing or replacing missing sections of damaged wood trim such as in wood moldings, it helps to have a way to do it efficiently. If you’re repairing historically significant architecture, your method should disturb as little of the original wood as possible.
By Tony Sheppard, T&M Marine The Tartan Ten, Flags, sustained port-side core damage in a racecourse collision. The original repair, a simple patch applied over the damaged skin, was improper and ineffective. Within a short time, there was distortion and movement in the hull side at the repair area. Water penetrated the skin and saturated […]
