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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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That looks like some expensive sawdust. What's it used for?
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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^^^^^^^^
I think you are supposed to put a bunch of glue in there and make your own Presto Logs. Of course, I think there might be an easier way to get firewood.
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Hardly Visible
Social climber
Llatikcuf WA
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Here's a couple of interior doors of granite and red cedar.
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KabalaArch
Trad climber
Starlite, California
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Well, I guess I was able to upload the photo successfully. Now I've got the figure out how to text it.
Anyway, the last line concludes: "...this is a new U.S. Forest Service Visitors Center, in Mammoth Lakes..."
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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a luggi's hawk from the leap...
i figgured 150 pounds per square foot
unit load on my 1930's stick foundation
that bears on decomposed granite footings...
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Jeeeeze Cragman is that for the pres of PG&E?
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Que la lumnier soit et la lumnier fut!
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quietpartner
Trad climber
Moantannah
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No wonder your power bills are so high!
Edit: Power bills from 10,000 homes are apparantly needed to pay the CFO's salary.
sorta ;)
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apogee
climber
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A building like that would have kept Solyndra from folding!
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Just a little continuation from my "Lose Your Dreams and You Will Lose Your Mind........." on building our boat:
http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/1129435/Lose-Your-Dreams-Lose-Your-Mind-Guido-Builds-a-Boat
After we built it, sold it and bought it back, I had to haul it to a friends property here in the Cruz for 17 months for a total rebuild. Refastened the teak deck, repaired about 500 dings in the hull from a dismasting mid Pacific and long tow courtesy US Coast Guard and rewire, replumb, refurbish the entire interior, rebuild and reinstall the engine and build the mast and rerig the boat. Whole lotta of re here.
Since I was into a major I decided to add a "back porch" or in more nautical terms a scoop. Make the boat a little faster, a plus for getting on and off and just hanging out and an easy platform to dive from. And, it made the the boat so much better looking.
Of course, being the great under estimator of all time I totally misjudged the time and materials for this wee job. Fortunately I had a stash of Port Orford Cedar and some good friends to lend a hand. #13000 men hours to build the boat the first time and over #6000 on the rebuild.Think I will build a canoe next time.
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the goat
climber
north central WA
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F*&%in' amazing! I love stories like that!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Wow, that really sweetened her bum and I'll wager added close to a knot?
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Gene
climber
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Guido goes Kardashian!
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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How does she sail compared to before the new stern profile?
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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The boat is probably about 1/3-1/2 kt faster and one of my main concerns was she would sit too low in the water and we would have to deal with a slapping noise of water against the bottom of the scoop. Neither a problem as she balanced out well and with her beamy, yet beautiful ass she is a dream offshore. Smooth. Very dry boat in nasty conditions. When you venture onto the scoop offshore you wear a harness. Couple of substantial 3/8 inch eyebolts are located to clip onto. Just like a cozy belay ledge with good anchors, only one tends to gyrate round a little more and you often get the bonus of plankton illumination at night time trailing off the stern.
Added bonus was we built two massive mahogany stringers into the scoop so a self steering vane could be attached easily. Makes it a dream to have the vane mounted for a passage and then pull it off and store it when island hopping. Takes 20 min to pull it off and store.
First batch of Baltic ply I used for the top layer was bad,ie. poor glue, and the scoop started to delaminate and blow up in Tahiti. In New Zealand we replaced it with some certified,ie. expensive, marine ply and rebuilt the top layer. Not a small job as it also entailed repainting the LPU paint on the entire scoop. Line up the Dominos when you get involved with boat projects!
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Gene
climber
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with her beamy, yet beautiful ass she is a dream
Gorgeous!!!
Self steering vanes are sooooooooo 19th Century. I love it!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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"Shhh! Mad scientist at work!
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tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
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Guido,
Defective plywood sucks! I used all meranti on my boat which was supposed to be BS6566. Real marine plywood doesn't seem so expensive when you compare the cost and effort to replace substandard wood.
I'm still not sure why I had a piece go bad on my boat, but I think water got into, than over multiple winter storages there was freeze thaw that eventually made it come apart. Fortunately it wasn't a structural piece, and I finally got around to replacing it this fall.
I still need to sand, fair, prime and paint this spring. And sanding, fairing, priming and painting is my least favorite boating activity. If/when I replace my boat it will be with a tin can.
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strangeday
Trad climber
Brea ca.
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Dec 11, 2011 - 07:00pm PT
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I made this weight sled for a buddy who's really into the whole crossfit thing. I'm thinking about making up a few more to sell, seems this crossfit fad is sticking around.
I can only hope WELD_IT approves...
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