John’s Blogspot Archive

This time of year is a busy one on the engineering side of my life, and with Christmas coming up family deserve special attention as well.  So...

Laminating a curved item such as a tiller is one of the more rewarding jobs. A gracefully curved and very strong tiller with the gluelines...

6 Metre  Whaler. I orginally drew this design for use as a sort of “Outward Bound” education center boat, one that would carry 6 trainees and...

Tools. I’m not really a tool freak, not a collector in the sense of lovingly restoring old woodworking hand tools and putting them on display in...

I called on Annie last week, she'd sent me the email and pics below, and I had other reasons to go north to Whangarei where she is at the moment....

I’ve been running this blog now since January 8th 2011. For a while it was an on and off thing, not regular, or much of a priority, but of late I...

Alistair Riddle is a rower, not in the usual sense that we small boat cruisers know, but in the competitive sit on a toothpick with monster oars out...

Long Steps, the build has begun. I’ve four frames drawn, the stem, and the spine for the forward section, the mast box and some of the detail around...

Today I had a small job to do in Whangarei,  I knew it was only about a 10 minute job, had tried to talk the owner through the procedure but he...

Saturday Night Special build There are several builders of this design aiming at next years Texs 200,  we’re hoping for a fleet of them, some to be...

Left to right. Blair, Paul and I about to pick her up and drop her in the water.  The designer is always a bit nervous on launching day. Float would...

OARS FOR SEI. Lets get the jokes out of the way, the one about this being a “two oars-power cruiser”  and the one about “keeping things on...