Fixed it.

Nobody does houseboats like San Francisco.

How not to load a boat onto the trailer.

Apologies for Bacefook linkage.

The USS Kitty Hawk strutting around with some deadbeat she picked up, you know how those Navy people are. ;)

accidentally caught boat fever again. I've been looking at plans for small sailing dinghies. First, it began with plywood tack and tape boats then quickly escalated to clinker/lapstrake planked skiffs and sailing dories.

Leading me down the rabbit hole to the Mystic Seaport Wooden Boat show in June/July,

FML

http://traditionalsmallcraft.com/Images/BeachSkiff.jpg

Mystic is fantastic. When you're done can you sell it for big bucks?

I looked out the window at my sad wooden kayak in the back yard today and momentarily fantasized about ordering some epoxy and sanding it down when the weather gets warmer.

do it

Or, put some stamps on it and send to Kentucky. I don't boat much, but, I would put your kayak on top of GC1 and carry it everywhere I went.

Come to think of it, GC1 could prolly use a coat of epoxy.

This reminds me..

I owe footfootfoot, glatt, and my other maker brothers a boat thread.

Yeah, it's only been a DECADE.

We have a boat thread, do you mean a build thread?

**SIGH**

HE MEANS THE THREAD

ETA:

Pretty good memory, eh?

oh, yeah, yours too.

Don't sigh at me. :p:
If you want to post pictures of a watercraft we have threads for boats and for ships.

If you want to reminisce about things you accomplish before the great decline, then you'll have to find it in the Cellar attic. Sexobon is great at digging up that stuff.

If someone is inspired by the old farts reminiscing about shit they once did, then a build thread like glatt's bandsaw build thread would be most welcome.

http://cellar.org/2012/bwekk.gif

I was just giving you good natured grief V.

It's all good.

Somebody needs to step up and start the next bigasscellarbuild!

Do we have a build a wall thread?
Why hasn't Jim taken a Trump handle and started posting with it?
What the hell is wrong with you guys? Old farts!
We young-in's have expectations, ya know.

Here is the boat that has captured my attention, I may build a 1:6 model of it this summer. It's 12' 4-1/2" between perps.

And a sailing club in WA that is currently building one - with pictures!
https://oarlockandsail.com/2016/10/3...-our-new-boat/

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/631/2...324f1dfc_b.jpg

Just feed that drawing into your buddy's CNC machine and say embiggen. :lol:

C'mon Foots, you shown repeatedly you've got the skills, it's just a matter of time and money, and you can show those west coasters how to do it right. :cheerldr:

Time and money are at odds with each other at the moment, but maybe not for long...

Awesomeness.

Apologies for the Facefuck linkage, YouTube don't know nothing 'bout this.

Wow, that's nuts. Moving the cabin fore and aft and the boat stays level. :thumb:

Super cool. I'd say it's from Munson Boats, they're local.

The moving cabin is amazing, but far more utilitarian is that second boat that can carry a pickup truck. way cool!

I liked how ya could put the controls (the dash, if you will) pretty much any damn place on the boat.

The old flying car promise redux.

To hell with not being able to swim well, that is why I would not get in one of those jet-boats-on-white-water-situations.

Maybe it's from watching far too many SFX movie explosion crashes explosions crash crash boom, but that wasn't even as shocking as licking a 9 volt battery.

Plus, they seem like douches.

otherwise, two thumbs up!

I thought they were done after that first big bump, but the boat apparently said "Mmm, I like rocks! MOAR!"

Yes. It looked like it was just being blown by the wind. I would have liked it better if they titled it "Speed boat in river bashes into rocks and capsizes. What happened next blew my mind"

No, fuck you very much:



My fav was the guy what took a kayak to the chin.

Better bigger.

Did we see anyone die in that video? Some of those looked like they might have died.

Fuck no, indeed.

Definitely some guys very close to being in trouble.

I prefer to think no one died in that vid.

I think I did see a guy die yesterday though, come to think of it.

LiveLeak has/had a surveillance-type vid of some poor guy that got caught some how in a large spool being wound with wire/cable. Dude got spun over by that spool over and over. I realized that there was just no way he was gonna survive and turned it off.

I don't necessarily need to see that.

No. Fucking. Way.

I saw one too, guy on motorcycle broadsides a truck right in the saddle tank. Tank explodes and the dude is enveloped in flame.

No thank you internet.

Guy was definitely hurt but appeared to survive that if you catch the extended version.
WARNING: There are no boats in this video.

That's weird, the picture after the fire was put out shows the saddle tank intact. It's hard to believe all that fire came from the bike. :confused:

Maybe the biker broke a fuel line coming from the tank?

Usually the fuel line goes into or over the frame but it's China so who knows.
Looking at the tank with your K trick, the front lower corner of the tank may have been damaged.

The bike's tank ruptures, spraying fuel. A spark from steel on steel, or the truck's spark plug wire arcing, sets off atomized fuel.

Whoosh.

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The flame front is a fair way away from the saddle tank.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

I like your story.

That fire is way under the truck. At first I thought that whatever the biker was carrying in his "lap" is what spilled and caught fire, but our view is too obstructed to be sure.

Thanks for pointing out that YouTube trick, pause/<,> to advance/rewind frame-by-frame. That's gonna be handy.

I think that was one of those things I've 'become unaware of'.:)

Row row row your boat, but don't follow these fools...

Or if rowing ain't your thing...

Batboat!

It sure does look badass. But I am skeptical about the 180 mph top speed. Maybe it's a drag boat and cuts a hole in the water too fast to fall in. But I'd think that a v-hull, even a catamaran double v would be beat to shit and back at 180 mph over a stretch of water big enough to get going that fast. A hydrofoil? Ok. V-hull? and not steel strong enough to withstand being pounded by the wave? Carbon fiber is light, but not know for its toughness.

I'd be interested to hear more, or, hey, let's see it in action!

eta: aha...

http://jalopnik.com/5846470/buy-this...for-17-million

A Los Angeles-class sub at periscope depth. Pic taken from a P-3 Orion, perhaps fittingly, a sub-hunter.

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Is it just me, or, does something appear to be...emanating out from the airplane's shadow?:eyebrow:

That's just the shadow of the depth charge being released. BOOM!
Just kidding that's part of the plane.

I meant that I see something akin to semi-visible rays (for lack of a better word) of some sort emanating 360 degrees from the plane. Not the tail-boom-lookin-thingy.

OK the darker blue lines? Probably the texture of the water surface.

I thought maybe I was finally having a flashback.:jig:

Well it has an outboard motor, what appears to be MS boat numbers, and was in Boston Harbor photographing the tall ships... must be boat.

Steering wheel is not on the correct side...

...but, on a boat it is.

Now, for the argument:

Is it a boattruck, or is it a truckboat?

Wait.

No windshield, or A-pillars.

I think Bruce may be right.

That's a boat.

That's not a boat, now this is a boat, which I saw on the day/place that dude drove into the water.

Actually that is a boat.