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Final Details by Captain James R. Watson (In Epoxyworks #5 I wrote New Beach Cat (Part I)—The Hull Story about constructing the hulls of my new beach cat.) There is a little aftershock related to this event, with all the anticipation and abstracting of what she’ll finally be like—now we find out. One finds it […]
By Captain James R. Watson I thought Jan Gougeon’s idea of an air-cushioned boat launcher was crazy at first. Then I thought if I could build a platform narrow enough to fit between the hulls of my catamaran, low enough to fit under the beams and powerful enough to lift the entire catamaran, it would […]
by Captain James R. Watson Staying within a set budget of time and money can be the toughest of all goals for a boat builder. The beach cat I wrote about in this issue is the 19th boat I’ve built from scratch. From these projects, and from talking to many folks building similar projects, I’ve learned […]
by Jim Derck—GBI Technical Advisor When using WEST SYSTEM® 300 Mini Pumps, the most important things to remember are: Read the instructions. Use one full pumps stroke of resin for each one full pump stroke of hardener to get the proper resin-to-hardener ratio. If you’re ever concerned that your pumps aren’t metering properly, simply mix […]
By Allan Eugene Mechen The 200-year-old wooden figurehead from the ship H.M.S. UNITE’ was in a serious state of rot in March of 1994 when restoration experts began work to save her. They completed the painstaking process in October, 1994. Examining the figurehead on site, we saw that it had been previously sheathed in fiberglass. […]
