A Bad Penny

You were gone? :rofl:

I MISSED YOU DAVE!!

Welcome back! Now where's my "How to make anything and everything with any material of any size with any dimensions and any number of moving parts" SketchUp drawing? hmmm? :D
 
Good to see you back, Dave. :wave:

Tod did a great job of handling all the SketchUp questions that came along in your absence. He referred them all to Roscoe. :D Roscoe didn't have the answers, but nobody seemed to want to argue with him.
 
Glad you made it back Dave. So how about going out for some lobster? :D

So let's hear about the trip. Did you make it to see TL-N?

I already reported on your stop over on your way to lobster land.

Karl
 
Hey gang, thanks for the welcome back. I had a great time starting with the visit with Karl. That guy can cook! And bake, too. His soup is excellent as are his cookies. :thumb::thumb: He's just a plain old nice guy, too.

Maine was great. I ate a lobster for Karl out there so I didn't get to eat as many for myself as I wanted to but who's complaining? The weather was a bit warmer than forecast but that just made it nice to be out by or on the water.

We made a pilgrimage to the boat building capital of the world, Brooklin, Maine. The timing was excellent because there was a group of 40 small boats getting ready for the Small Reach Regatta sponsored by WoodenBoat. They sailed and rowed on Eggemoggin Reach for a couple of days.

We didn't get to L-N but instead opted to go for a lobster lunch sail on the schooner Heron, a 52' wooden boat. I think this boat would be interesting to any woodworker for some of the construction methods employed. Although it is a traditional boat built to a design drawn by John Alden in the 20s, it was built using some modern approaches. The frames are laminated instead of sawn and they are joined to the keel with tapered sliding dovetails. The sliding dovetails are definitely out of the ordinary. The deck beams were also attached with sliding dovetails. The rolling bevels on the planking were cut using a tilting head shaper with one man feeding the work and the other adjusting the tilt of the head on the fly. Typically this work would be done by offering the plank up to the boat, checking for gaps, removing the plank, handplaning a bit on the bevel and then heading back to the boat. Using the shaper allowed the work to proceed much more rapidly.

Here's a picture I found showing the dovetailed white oak frames into the keel.
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Meeting Karl was the first highlight of the trip. Perhaps the second was meeting some friends I made last fall and winter who live in West Boothbay Harbor when I did some work related to a dock proposal they were fighting. (story's too long to go into but it did involve using SketchUp. ;) )They are very nice folks and we had a great time. One of them gave us quite the tour of the harbor and part of the Sheepscot River area. After that we had a lobster dinner with lobsters from the neighboring lobsterman. Yum!

Anyway, enough babbling. I'm still working on getting the photos together and I'll post a few when I get finished.

Oh, another place we stopped was Captain Tinkham's Emporium in searsport. If you're looking for old tools, that's the place to go. Check out this link: http://www.jonesport-wood.com/jwcaptain/jwctetour1.htm
 
Hey Dave, as I got to hear the Boothbay Harbor story, I'm curious as to the final outcome. Or is it finished yet?

That Capt. Tinkham's place looks like at least a days worth of looking for treasures.

While it isn't Maine lobster, we went out Wendesday night for all you can eat KING CRAB LEGS at Ho-Chunk Casino. My mom and I both commented that the crab legs were good, but nothing beats a Maine lobster.

Karl
 
So Dave...did you get a chance to have any lobster? :rofl:

Actually I guess I ate four or five including the one in the Lobster Au Gratin and another in a lobster roll. There were two "sloppy lobsters", whole ones, one a hard shell and the other a shedder. We also ate mussels, clams, scallops and Damariscotta oysters. I imagine I probably ate as much shellfish as one person should have in a year. :thumb::D

Doug, TurboCAD? Bite your tongue! :D

Karl, the dock in Boothbay Harbor hasn't been built yet but the latest word is that construction is due to start in November. The Maine DEP has said that the pilings must be on 16' centers as opposed to the original 10 or more common 6. This will require beefing up the spans. They also said the dock would have to be shorter than planned but they can use a longer run (the ramp to the float) (IIRC 55' instead of 30'). For that length though it will probably have to be made of aluminum rather than wood as the weight of the wood would probably sink the float. This will be a very expensive dock and if it ends up where it looks like it will, I suspect a boat tied to the float will ground at low tide anyway. :rolleyes:

Capt. Tinkham's is certainly a place to spend time if you have it. If you go, you need to also go to Hull's Cove and Liberty to see the rest of the tools the good Captain has collected.

Crab legs are definitely good but I do like lobster better. Especially those sweet Maine lobsters boiled in sea water.
 
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