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From: WSD Binns (no email)
Date: Thu Sep 01 2005 - 17:08:04 EDT
http://www.geocities.com/wduncanbinns
"Life is HARD and life is TOUGH:
Life is tougher if you're stupid,
And life is hard because you suck."
--W.S. Duncan-Binns (Seaman)
Comrade,
I thank you for your advice! However, I am unwilling to go the "used
boat" route at this time (n-yet, n-yet) since I believe that building
CUSTOM is the very best way to go to obtain a more profound
understanding of all things nautical and a deeper appreciation for
naval architecture and boat design. Plus, and you'll understand me if
you've taken a look at the LINKS, the SZTRANDEK 4.9M makes for
fascinating possibilities in terms of "invisibility" even if it's toy-
like by World-Cruising standards. I must admit, I'm infactuated with
this design!
"Easy? Who said I was big & easy?"
--Kitt Ballantine, Jew Poet
SZTRANDEK 4.9M
Design Modifications,
Part 2: more ballast,
further reduction in
cockpit area size,
and bowsprit for
2nd jib (to expand
foresail area).
Basic "Clandestine Boat Works" Boat-Building Terms & Concepts:
1. "STOW-RAGE" is the name we ShadowObjectivists inside
the "Clandestine Boat Works" give the place where valuable assets,
instruments and components, tools and materials, get stowed when not
in use in order to prevent their loss at the jobsite. (The first step
any seaman, sailor and boatbuilder should take in the pre-
construction phase of any boatbuilding project is to stow, store and
stockpile any and all essential safety equipment, carpentry tools and
construction materials within a secured storage facility.)
2. "HEADHUNTING" is the term we ShadowObjectivists use in the
locating and the securing of suitable jobsites for our boatbuilding
enterprises. [This second step in the pre-construction sequence
involves understanding our needs within the given budget restrictions
and construction material (acquisition) requirements, and whether
privacy (the utmost secrecy) will become, or will need to become, an
important factor: Go look around at the less prosperous marinas and
shipyards in your area and ask them if it might be possible for
a "carpenter" to utilize some space for a boatbuilding project. Ask
them if this might be done free-of-charge, through bartering or
exchange of services, or for a reasonable monthly fee. (If the answer
is, "No!" one could try the water-front parking lots utilizing the
same approach, but I'm afraid the bartering/exchange and free-of-
charge jobsite requests are out of the question.) Going the "secrecy"
route, there is no substitute for conducting a reconnissance mission
for the most abandoned, secluded and neglected vacant lots and
parcels of land near the water-fronts of your area. These are the
places where we ShadowObjectivist inside the "Clandestine Boat Works"
carry-out our boatbuilding objectives clandestinely -- and for free!
(Even though there won't be any access to electricity and running
water, and shelter will be a feat of skillful improvisation, you will
appreciate the revelation that your boatbuilding project, having
taken-on a spirit of urgency, is experiencing a rapid completion and,
once completed, a greater quality in the finish and fitting-out. As
my foreman, Murrin Castello, once said, "The niceties of comfortable
surroundings hamper construction projects!") Utilize one of those
camp tents from Wal-Mart and a hardware store bought tarpulin to
cover self, equipment, materials and work.]
Pre-construction Phase Sequence. My first concern, after
securing "stow-rage" and finding the most favorable boatbuilding
environment, will be to acquire all the essential, necessary assets
needed to bring SZTRANDEK 4.9M together in the shortest amount of
time. "What is the correct sequence for the pre-construction (design)
phase?" After consulting my many boatbuilding resources, both on-line
and bibliographic, the obvious answer lies where the carpenters
begin: with safety equipment, tools and materials.
http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/wwg/start.shtml
http://www.northerntool.com and
http://www.acehardware.com/home/index.jsp
3. The "Project Bag" is a lockable carrying-case for important books,
plans, charts, blueprints, meteorological instruments, the most
essential of carpenter's measuring, layout and marking tools, etc.
The "project bag" holds the things no seaman, sailor and boatbuilder
can be without during any hour of the day!
4. "Five-Gallon Bucket" (The ClandestineBoatWorks Tool-Box). Duluth
Trading sells this contraption called the "Bucket Master" which can
contain most of all the things needed to execute any plywood-based
boatbuilding project. My tool-box for the SZTRANDEK 4.9M design
follows what most carpenters are issued for homebuilding and wood-
working construction projects: a) 20'-25' Measuring Tape; b)
Combination Square; c) Carpenter's Square; d) Carpenter's Level; e)
Utility Knife; f) Set Of Carpenter Pencils; g) Chalkline; h) 26in. 10-
Point Crosscut Saw; i) Three-Quarter-Inch Butt Chisel; j) Block
Plane; k) Four-In-Hand; l) Perforated Rasp; m) Curved-Claw Hammer; n)
Screwdriver Set; o) Adjustable Wrench; p) Adjustable T-Bevel; q) Pry
Bar; r) C-Clamps; s) Backsaw w/Miter Box; t) Re-chargable Cordless
Drill; u) Re-Chargable Cordless Saw. (Note: Most carpenters add
additional tools to the kit as required during construction.)
http://www.duluthtrading.com/home.asp
--- In , "Lee Haefele" <Lee at h dot dot dot > wrote:
> This is not a "small cruiser", at 15 feet it is a "micro cruiser".
Spend some time on a boat this small first. Specially constructing a
15' boat, with lots of wood, for $50,000 USD does not make good
economic sense. There are many wonderful, slightly used boats for
much less money. If you really want small, check out a Seaward. A
good used Catalina 25 can be had for <$5000 US. In Europe, Westerly
26 is a sturdy boat. But for an Atlantic crossing, get a boat that
displaces more than 5 tons.
> Lee Haefele
> Nauticat 33 Alestomp
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