Boat Building and Wood

April 1, 2011

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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The Basics Needed to Build a Boat

March 16, 2011

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 Did It

March 2, 2011

?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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Malahini – Time Well Wasted

February 25, 2011

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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What is This Thing Called Displacement?

February 18, 2011

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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Social Media and Boat Building

February 4, 2011

I have to confess to you that I’m not really sure how to integrate this blog and Facebook and Twitter into the Glen-L business. Growing up in this company, we always kept business and personal life very separate. In fact, we rarely let on that we were a small company and family owned. I understand that [...]

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Is the Planking Attached to the Frames?

January 26, 2011

A builder emailed today asking if the side planking for the Outrage is attached to the frames. The Outrage is a 16′ deep vee ski boat and is built using sheet plywood construction. My father wrote an article on the subject of fastening planking to frames and includes a great history lesson about the evolution of plywood boat construction.

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Wooden Boat Interview: Double Eagle

January 20, 2011

  Ken Schott first launched his almost completed Double Eagle a 25 foot wooden fishing boat at the very first Gathering of Boatbuilders at Lake Guntersville in Alabama. What an exciting event that was! Ken beamed from ear to ear with pride in the boat he built himself. What an awesome accomplishment and how great to launch [...]

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We Celebrate Darla’s 30 Years at Glen-L

January 14, 2011

Today is the 30 year anniversary that our Office Manager, Darla Schooler, began working at Glen-L Marine. She started with us back in 1981 when she still had her

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New Tugboat Design

January 11, 2011

One of the most popular designs here at Glen-L is our Tubby Tug which is a 9 foot stitch and glue tugboat. This boat was designed with kids in mind, but it’s popular with all ages of “kids”!

Now we’re pleased to announce a brand spanking new design called “Pug”. This is

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