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I employed a friend as a first-fix chippy when he came back from travelling the world. He used to be a metalurgist in the tungsten-carbide industry. Showing him how to do timber studwork was fun. He kept cutting the noggins 20 thou undersize

Tim, Boat looking great. You shouldn't have a problem with the water because they manage it all up-stream before it gets to you. By manage I mean wake my folks in rural Oxfordshire at 2 am to tell them that they have closed some sluices just down river of them and that they have about an hour before...

To reinforce Larry's point; the small fire extinguishers are pants; they just about put a fag out. I would certainly go for as large as you can accomodate. I had a very small engine fire on a tractor unit and used 2 of the 4lb powder extinguishers that came with the truck. They didn't touch it. I ha...

Long, narrow and elegant ??

I think you will find1/4" osb way to floppy.

Almost all of Britain's waterways are run by three main organisations, each of which issues its own licences and registrations. British Waterways runs almost all the canals, and rivers such as the Severn, Trent and Yorkshire Ouse. The Environment Agency runs the River Thames, the River Medway, and t...

What sort of boat ???

Inland waterways or saltwater ??

Kiwi said You want something along the lines of the English canal boats - long and narrow. They are very tippy if you haven't been on board one. The only reason that a narrow boat is stable is because it weighs loads. The area under the floor on ours was covered in dense concrete slabs plus the fact...

All correct except the last two bits.

Glue the rubrail after boat is assembled.

Some builders fit before fairing, others after.

Dougster, I think you gave yourself more work than needed by starting way too early with the plane. 8O I would just get a little block as high as your gap, run a pencil along the length of the skeg then cut off the excess with a handsaw. If you are bedding it on epoxy, the fit won’t need to be tha...