John Greenleaf's Blog – March 2010 Archive (2)

Nature Abhors a Vacuum

The wood is on its way and its time to clean out the garage and organize the tools.

Besides nature's way of taking every possible extraneous doo-dad you own (and some you don't) and jamming them into every single unoccupied inch of space in the garage, there is one other fundamental truth (regarding garages) that I have come to realize. It can be expressed in equation form:

New Boat In = Old Boat Out

It is indeed a sad and poiniant truth. For "A.M. Radio"…

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Added by John Greenleaf on March 31, 2010 at 4:32am — 1 Comment

Where the Rubber Meets the Road

Alright, here we go - my first wooden boat; time to get down to business. A double ender w/ transom right out of Roger's book. To date:

1) Read Roger's book (a few times)...Needless to say, essential.

2) Built a model using Auto CAD - see pic below. Let me tell you for those of you who were never to handy or sucessful with model building, I think this is a really nice alternative. As a preface, alls I could ever do with my hand-built models as a kid was to half build…

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Added by John Greenleaf on March 29, 2010 at 3:54pm — 2 Comments

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