Flotsam & Jetsam (plus Radio Winners!)
First off, congratulations to SCA paid subscribers RC, T.J. Rich, and Walter Collins—each of them has won a Radioddity Emergency Solar Crank Radio!
Be sure to support Radioddity if you’re on the lookout for new radios or other electronic kit.
Speaking of cool boat gear, we finally have some stock of Wavefront Tiller Clutches again. Get yours while you can. —Eds
Regarding Marty’s piece on his Camp-Cruising Dreamboat, reader Al Freihofer wrote:
What a fantastic little cruiser Tatoosh will be....adorable to look at, right-sized so that she will be used, and a heart-breaker for those of us who can't turn a screw or employ a glue gun without attaching ourselves to the shop or ourselves.
Never having built anything beyond the balsa gliders of my youth - and they were assemblies, hardly construction- I nonetheless worry a bit here, naively and in absence of any knowledge, about ballast? I fell in love for a while with the Nimble Kodiak, a vessel that seems to me not dissimilar to the size, silhouette, and use of Tatoosh, and since the Kodiak was intended to sail (even though my sense is that many were/are used as mini-trawlers), she carried a bit of a keel and ballast, With no such keel and the advent of significant future topsides,Tatoosh looks to be trending towards a bit of top-heaviness? You have forgotten more about this stuff than I will ever know, but other than the ballast you plan to add at the base of the old centerboard trunk, how will you know when enough is enough?
Thanks for sharing not just the build process, but your thinking along the way, which is gold to us duffers.
You rock!
Our friend Ida Little read Hugh Horton’s report on the hurricane aftermath in Cedar Key and sent us the following additional photos and notes:
Well, it’s now my home town down south…odd timing for that commitment but also good. A real feeling of community for all of us there.
After reading our feature Varnished Truth, reader David Peebles added:
Liquid Rawhide (Behr, I think) is another flexible, slightly soft finish. Works fairly well to recoat finish that is still in reasonably good shape.
Regarding shallow-water cruising and Puget Sound estuary exploration, our friend Dave McWethy mentioned a good reference:
You mentioned kayak guides. I expect you might be aware of this one. But if not, it’s excellent
Longtime SCA contributor, Hugh Horton, commented on our interview with Emiliano Marino. He wrote:
Still just sails, oars, & paddles here. Sailing “purist”? No. Simplest and most reliable, yes.
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Marty has never shown a lack of understanding relative to physics and boat behavior. I would be astonished If that showed up now. Looking forward to the finished product, pictures and stories of use!