From the category archives:
This interview was taken at the 2010 Gathering of Boatbuilders in Tennessee. Dave Lott built a beautiful version of our Riviera design.
Dave is a very active member of the Glen-L Forum so many of us feel like we were practically there during the building of his Riviera. Like many other Forum members, he shared his experiences along the way and talked through
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Build your dream boat #31…
A while back in the Build Your Dream Boat series #12 email, I talked about a man who was confused about the Barrelback design. If you’ll recall, he had just received his plans and was confused with them. He’s a smart guy, but just felt perplexed.
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During the first part of every year is when people start outfitting their boats for the upcoming boating season. It’s at this time that we get many calls from folks asking for help with choosing hardware for their inboards. I thought it would be helpful to go over some of the parts needed. If you’re unfamiliar with inboard installations, we suggest our book, Inboard Motor Installations.
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Today’s article is a letter to the editor submitted to “Small Craft Advisor” magazine. We advertise in SCA and it is a wonderful magazine for sailors and would-be sailors. I really thought that Roger’s letter was such a wonderful expression of boatbuilding that I wanted to share it. We have Roger’s permission to use it.
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Sometimes it helps to go back to the basics whether it’s with marketing a business or building a boat.
We’re working on making our online store a bit easier to navigate and will be adding links on the design pages to Customer Photos & Project Registries among other changes. And, we’d like to add a section for each design that lists what you need to get started since we get a lot of questions about this.
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?Rudy Heckman was 40 years old when he immigrated to the United States from a little town in Germany. Although he spoke no English, he was able to find work at a machine shop on Terminal Island, the port for Los Angeles.
As he drove to work each morning he crossed a bridge where numerous boats were nested in slips. Rudy was especially enamored with the tall masts of the cruising sailboats. Thoughts turned to dreams of sailing the ocean…
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Continuing the boat building dream #27…
Today’s interview is only one minute long and this craftsman is truly living his dream in the boat he built himself…
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Continuing the boatbuilding dream…
Legend has it that when Archimedes discovered the basic principle of buoyancy some 2000 years ago by stepping into a bath, he became so excited that he ran home without his clothes on, shouting “eureka, eureka” (“I have found it, I have found it”). Contrary to what you might think, what old Archy really found was that when a person stepped into
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Many of our boat designs call for cold molded, double or multiple diagonal planking. This is a method of applying the skin or planking of the boat in multiple layers; the first layer about 45 degrees and subsequent layers approximately crossing
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After my post about the Top 10 Designs for 2009, I had a request for the top 10 sailboat designs. So, here it is! Once again, these are the top 10 Sailboats according to our boat plan sales of 2009. It doesn’t necessarily mean that a lot of people are building these particular designs. For [...]
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