DIY

Boat Yard Etiquette for DIY Boaters

This boat was jacked up off its keel so the owner could fair the bottom of the keel and left that way for a week until a storm blew it over.

The trend in boat yards is to not allow do-it-yourselfers to do any work on the outside of your vessel. With high storage fees for a relatively small patch … [Read more...]

A Scribe’s Scribe or How to Make Replacement Bulkheads

An Architectural Drawing Compass will reproduce your vessels curves when making repairs

I’ve hired a few house carpenters and tried to train them to be boat carpenters and the first thing the yard foreman would always tell them was to throw … [Read more...]