I just posted a video of a start-to-finish building of a REAL stripper. http://paddleandoar.com Paul Montgomery paul_at_paddleandoar.com http://paddleandoar.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Paul Montgomery wrote: > I just posted a video of a start-to-finish building of a REAL stripper. > > http://paddleandoar.com Remarkable job. Shows the old school way of doing things. The skill of those guys at caulking seams is stunning. Production speed like that is gone forever, though old school devotees keep the thread alive. Fans of this sort of thing might pick up an issue of WoodenBoat magazine and check out some of the ads for old tools and materials: oakum, tar, actual _manila_ ropes, etc. WB: http://www.woodenboat.com/index.html -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Thanks for posting this, Paul. I can remember boatyards like this (no hardhats!!!) in the 1950s but most of them are long gone now. Boatyards in many city waterfront areas have been replaced by trendy restaurants, upscale boutiques and pricey condominiums. In fact, Sue and I drove around the marina at Dana Point trying to find a shop that carried marine fasteners and couldn't find one!!! We could find lots of pay-parking and numerous restaurants with salty names but nothing that a person who was working on a boat would find useful. Even that mainstay of marine stores, West Marine (we remember their first store) has moved out of the port area up into town for everything but deck shoes and pricey clothing. Finally we asked a couple our age who looked like they knew their way around and they told us how to get to the local hardware store on 101. And the owner of that store wasn't sure how long stores like his would be able to stay in business. But we got our fasteners. Who could have imagined, even 20 years ago, a marina area with no chandleries? Or, in fact, no working boats at all but only yachts. I could go on about my old port district in Everett, WA (just north of Seattle) which razed all the old shipworks and signed a contract for yupified condos only to have the entire deal collapse with the bankruptcy of the condo outfit in the recession. Now all they have are empty spaces. Excellent video of how it was done in the 1950s and, in some places, how it's still done today. But you must search them out. In Puget Sound only Port Townsend has a "Port District" worthy of its name. That video is a keeper. Craig Jungers Moses Lake, WA www.nwkayaking.net On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Paul Montgomery <paul_at_paddleandoar.com>wrote: > I just posted a video of a start-to-finish building of a REAL stripper. > > http://paddleandoar.com > > Paul Montgomery > paul_at_paddleandoar.com > http://paddleandoar.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Craig Jungers wrote: > Thanks for posting this, Paul. I can remember boatyards like this (no > hardhats!!!) in the 1950s but most of them are long gone now. [snip] > Excellent video of how it was done in the 1950s and, in some places, how > it's still done today. But you must search them out. In Puget Sound only > Port Townsend has a "Port District" worthy of its name. Port Townsend is certainly the most extensive example; other ports where you can find shreds of this in my part of North America: Ilwaco, WA Charleston, OR Newport, OR Astoria, OR Bellingham, WA Nanaimo, BC Silva Bay, Gabriola Island, BC If you need fasteners or similar gear for your kayak, smaller outlets often have stuff West Marine does not, and sometimes at a better price. In many cases, it is a lonely boatyard, boatyard school (Silva Bay is an excellent one), or a chandlery/marine store associated with a smaller port. Larger cities seem to swamp them. My town has a stellar example in the form of the 40,000 SF home office/outlet of Englund Marine and Industrial, a seven-outlet operation spread from Westport, WA to Eureka, CA. EM is a family-owned business with a large dependence on the commecial fishing industry, which probably contributes 70-80% of its gross receipts. I suspect this is typical for most chandleries in smaller coastal ports in OR, WA, BC, and northern CA. There used to be three chandleries in my town, but as the commercial fishing industry dwindled, the other two and their employees were gradually absorbed by EM. Disclosure: my fiance' has worked for EM's home office these last three-four years, so I am not an impartial source. I do not get any income from them, but she does! I get to go to the annual crab feeds. -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Dave Kruger <kdruger_at_pacifier.com> wrote: > > If you need fasteners or similar gear for your kayak, smaller outlets often > have stuff West Marine does not, and sometimes at a better price. > West Marine would not be my first choice but it's ubiquitous. The store where we finally did find suitable fasteners (not for the kayaks, btw) was about a mile away on hwy 101. What amazed me was that even West Marine - which had a store in the marina - did not carry anything really useful at that store. The West Marine store with any useful stuff was also about a mile away. > My town has a stellar example in the form of the 40,000 SF home > office/outlet of Englund Marine and Industrial, a seven-outlet operation > spread from Westport, WA to Eureka, CA. EM is a family-owned business with > a large dependence on the commecial fishing industry, which probably > contributes 70-80% of its gross receipts. I suspect this is typical for > most chandleries in smaller coastal ports in OR, WA, BC, and northern CA. > When we built our sailboat in the late 1970s it was in Everett, WA and we had our choices of several chandleries within walking distance of the slip as well as of three shipwrights who could do everything from hull repair to interior cabinetry. I don't know what remains but it doesn't look like much when I drive through it. Of course, fishing ports are not what they used to be, either. The Ballard, WA fishermen's terminal used to be exclusively trollers, gill netters, trawlers, crabbers, seiners and the odd antique halibut schooner with not a yacht in sight. That's changed considerably. Although, in fairness, much of the fishing fleet today consists of boats far too large to fit into a 75-foot slip. I suspect many boaters in Everett would kill for an Englund Marine outlet. Anacortes has a couple of places but you have to have local knowledge (handy everywhere, no doubt). It was a treat to watch someone use a brace-and-bit to install decking in that vid. The contractor rebuilding my burned shop couldn't work for two weeks and when I asked him why he told me that the air compressor that powers their nail guns wouldn't work in the cold weather. I thought to myself - but didn't say it - "too bad your hammer arm is broken, too." The shop, by the way, is now two full stories high with an apartment (with windows) on the main floor (the City now requires that a "garage" can only be built if there is living quarters on the lot unless it's commercial property - long story), full standing headroom storage above (used to be only a half loft with standing room only under the peak of the roof), one 14-foot door vehicle door, one 10-foot vehicle door and 18 feet of clearance in the main shop area. We should have a roof over the building in two weeks. As long as their air compresor keeps working. Craig Jungers Moses Lake, WA www.nwkayaking.net *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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