John’s Blogspot Archive

Here's the proof. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgGnVkpLvQ0&feature=em-subs_digest For those not in the know, "Southern Cross" is Howard...

Building yourself a boat is not so much a huge job, as a whole lot of small jobs.  So I've done a few of those over the past week and the...

Slow progress, but progress nevertheless. I’ve altered a couple of things, so had to remake one frame. But that’s done now, and I’ve all of them...

Blog for this week. Its late, I’ve been otherwise occupied for a couple of days, so the blog has had to wait.  So heres’s a little thing to keep you...

The shape is beginning to appear! Woohoo!  So far the shape that was in my minds eye, developed by appplication of theory of hydrodynamics and...

But I have to build that building jig first.  I wrote the text below on Friday evening, went out today between showers and bought the two long...

But the workshop is ok too, at least in the afternoons when things have warmed up a little. With the winter weather having arrived in spades its...

Wintertime.  No blues though. Well, only a few. Its been a wet week, high winds, thunderstorms and torrential rain.  Even my little dog...

Life has ambushed me a bit, so my work on things boating have had to fit in between other things of late.  But progress is happening, ...

Progress on Long Steps. Stem, frames one and two are done,  frame three is close.  Number three is the one on the forward side of ...

Three students this time, Thanks Reg, David and Matt, that was a great couple of days. We had one Pathfinder builder, one making up his mind, and...

On Sunday I got started on the build of my very own adventure boat.  I get lots of emails from people who are out there having way too much...