By Robert Monroe Dave Hatton and I had a January trip planned to the Everglades and the Florida Keys. We decided to use a Feathercraft™ double folding kayak with a sailing rig, but were not very happy with its sailing performance to weather. It has a simple reaching/downwind sail and no effective lateral resistance to […]
Number 16, Fall 2000
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By Meade Gougeon — GBI Founder The original sailing rigs on both Serendipity and Puffin are Hugh Horton’s sophisticated version of the old, but efficient sliding gunter rig (Figure 1). Hugh had put a lot of thought into sailing rigs for canoes and had chosen the gunter because it best fit several needs that he […]
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by Captain James R. Watson Boats are my first love, but I get excited about projects like this Supermileage® vehicle, other SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) and airfoil carved-foam bicycle. My job offers great opportunities to talk to some of the most talented and positive thinking people around: sculptors, inventors, rocket builders, and good ol’ […]
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by Brian Knight—GBI Technical Advisor I was in my basement applying some 2×4 furring to a concrete block wall in preparation for insulating and hanging drywall when I noticed a crack in a horizontal mortar joint about halfway between the floor and the ceiling running nearly the length of the wall. This crack was an […]
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Editor’s note: this article was written in 2000, years before we formulated G/Flex 655 epoxy which has superior performance with plastics. The basic plastic boat repair methods described here still represent best practices, but for optimal results use these methods with G/flex 655 epoxy on plastics. Molded plastic canoes and kayaks are incredibly tough and durable. Occasionally though […]
