Technique
Movable weight for easier rowing and sailing
...or rowboat normally has a slight stern-down trim to better hold a straight course. As Bill and I discovered aboard the DONOGHUE, that trim may not be sufficient to get the boat to maintain a steady course in a crossing wind. Adjusting the trim to remedy weathercoc
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...here at the moment. There is some improvement, but many have lost everything and are just now realizing it. The insurance folks are
Product Reviews
Warm and dry feet
...Hale is a multi-season boot with a wrap-around ridged sole. We bought a pair of the women’s Hale model Muck Boots. She has found that they are easy to put on—she can step into and out of them, hands
Product Reviews
Radiant heat for tents and cabins
...cold walls and windows. It’s just part of the package and not any more of a problem than we already deal with by crac
Reader Built Boats
A kayak with a purpose
...deep channel assures safe passage
Boat Profile
A versatile kayak from Redfish
...slightly smaller than the more
Product Reviews
Lightweight rigs for hand launching
...recesses to hold the stop nuts, so a wrench is not required. The stainless hardware, the UV-protected plastic, and 1-1/2″-square, anodized aluminum
Product Reviews
Government charts, private printers
...paper and made it susceptible to tearing. The paper has a good tooth
Product Reviews
A power dolly from Parkit360°
...a camper trailer. Adding a battery box and a deep-cycle battery, as seen here, makes the unit self-contained. When I read about Parkit360°
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...curved cuts, leaving the Delta with a wide blade
Technique
Ingenuity at work
... Christopher Cunningham The wor
Product Reviews
Making a bandsaw a mini-sawmill
photographs by the author The wood I like best
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Peter Sibley
...Peter didn’t find anything that was just right, so he
Technique
The Zeppelin Bend and the Angler's Loop
...wor
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Product Reviews
Safer switches for workshop tools
...the back to engage the catch. When the back of the pedal is pushed down, the switch closes the circuit and the catch holds the pedal. Pushing the front of the pedal
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...from being pulled overboard and prevent the boat from ta
Product Reviews
Handi-Mate and HelmsMate
...lock the joint is a 3-7/8″-long aluminum tube that fits over the outside extension tube, so the U-joint’s size is limited by the largest tube’s 1″ outside diameter instead of its inside diameter, as with the Handi-Mate. The loc
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...time on the cabin floor, though I have small rugs underneath them
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...reducer needs to have the stop inside removed so that 1/2″ pipe will slip through. The short reducer is inserted into one end of the T with a piece of
Technique
Hammering common copper into shape
...set the peen of a ball peen hammer on the copper over the hole in the washers and hit it, face to face, with another hammer. Initially, fearing that one steel hammer might chip another and send shards flying, I used a wooden mallet but it didn’t
Technique
Lovely, Useful Things for Light Wind Sailing
...the balance of the helm significantly either. It is a reaching sail, and in the 3-oz fabric, is stiff enough to manage sailing as far upwind as a close reach. https://youtu.be/zr1i8Vgg-z4 Tac
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...I needed to find a placid body of water scaled to her diminutive dimensions. Through satellite images, I
Reader Built Boats
A boat for Bliss Creek
...waterfall pool on our land. I had been hoping to build a boat
Adventures
The mirror of a mountain
...red cedar, both with their branches bearded with pale green moss. I rowed toward a stretch of beach that appeared to be