boats boats everywhere even molds for making new boats one of the best things I've learned about
this life of sailing around is the people you meet and I'm going to introduce you to
a couple of them here this is uh Rick and Tom Rick day's been building boats for a long time
and this here is Thomas boat and they're inside working on a sale on it and they just finished
the rudder and we actually got to make the rudder pen for it and you can definitely see
the DIY and everything around here from the garden to the cars to the Home Hurricane took
the windmill off the top there's plans to put it back the weather controls many things around here
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I think you can tell a lot about people by the things they collect around them
that's five eight that counts the leather I mean it's a hair over
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those are to make them ring shank silicon bronze silicone bronze
and we cut them to 5 8 we couldn't find any 5 8. we didn't want to go deep through here
so how long have you lived here Rick 42 years you've been building boats all
that time the whole time tell me how you got started building boats well you know
you know I went sailing for 10 years and uh that got me hooked you're looking at your uh
awake and you're saying oh I can do better than this I was on a way to vacuum but I was
on the best of them anyway a double ender so but it came here and got interested in these
shallow draft Sharpies and as a simple work boat kind of thing and we built uh
about 42 of them about 30 something of those though were a little eight foot dinghies and
then up to about 17 18 foot and then Tom has a 26 foot Sharpie it draws 18 inches twin Center board
and uh and then we also built for a friend of his a 32 foot Sharpie 18 inch strap twin Center
Board Cat catch and those are the biggest all the others were skips 60 to 18 foot long
it looks like a juxtail but it's set like a a
call it a gaff e it's hard to call it that but you know the the shape of the liege is
like a jump because it's round in scalloped between and full Batten
it's hard to tell which is which the original or the new one but you can see this shape is
all junk and in fact the only thing I have to do to make it a jump is move it to right there now
I'm lifting in the middle of my yard I have these full battens but because his sale was all asked
on this little lager we set the sail ah so that's why we had to come back and put Jaws
on the throat and the attack and same with the little missing the original with the long Gaff
and us without but again we're setting it right where it was we ain't gonna buy it
this one would even be better going by because I don't think it's going to hurt that he's still
far enough after use it for a trim sale the Chinese called them uh steering sales
because of the obvious reason but so here's what's happening
when you have a sale that here's a mass when you have a sail that can swing clear around
the mass because it's laced on not it's not back here here's a here's a sale with it here
yeah here's a sale with the sail slip clear around here but look at the dead air space you have when
you got wind coming like this and all that acts as part of your foil really and you don't get
attachment to way back here so you really have a pretty entrance for have let this sail swing
around to the side come off out here same on the other side of course um so it's part of what
we were feeling really helps these folk grow to weather even though it's kind of a primitive rig
it works well what we did on this one though is we lowered the center of effort to foot
and we moved it aft only about a foot and we have the same amount of sale because you can
see this back here makes up for this it's not as high and high count the sail area counts
too so we're about the same sail area so we're calling it uh I guess a gaff headed sail now
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some of your inspiration in life I think so yeah I knew his songs in 1970 in the 60s I
saw him in Baltimore you know I built some of it or call it built it Landis this this and the
master woodworker this was a radial arm that you could shift to make a table saw I made it
into this this Landis was a whole row of those heavy supports that I built into my uh sander
of course the Shaker is just an old shaper the bandsaw is the U.S government yeah I did 31 inch
this is a faf 138 about as beat as you can get the Jiffy is a copy of a Chandler but a
Japanese coffee and probably As Good As It Gets but that Chandler is the real horse a
walking foot zigzag or straight Stitch and a 31 inch arm so it makes a lot of cover stuff
piece of cake so you sell a junk why do you sell the junk well I guess it's like getting
an automatic transmission everything you stand in the cockpit it reefs easy I slack the main
halyard and pull in the sheet and you're Reef it has no rigging so you can uh feather it in
almost any amount of wind and it won't beat itself to death because it's full bad so
other than that just we put about ten thousand miles on a sailboat Marconi and said it's a
lot of work it's hard to want to sail a Marconi anymore because it's too easy to sell these junks
you ever had a boat with a junk rig on it Tom uh yes I have it's a good rig to have [Music]
especially on a little Cruiser is the oldest technology not the newest that you want to use
thank you where are we at here
no big crowd is starting to use the shop for a uh house
you guys were talking about old technology I was the the Americas cut boat they used have you
seen it yeah what do you think I haven't seen the ones over here uh it's spectacular God it's like
flying an airplane instead of a sailboat that is too much the the cameraman took
a picture of of our boat under sail with America's Cup flying by in the front of it
that's a good combo that's the thumbnail for their uh their latest video thousands of years
difference yeah I like the contrast that's America's Cup over there and she's doing oh I
see her I see her 45 miles an hour I'm doing about 4.5 knots it's a beautiful contrast old and new
oh yeah
looking good Kevin she's pretty cruising a little fast but she's pretty fast hey moving as fast yeah
that up is not moving sailing is moving at any speed I know it what a deal it is always
a pleasure to visit with those guys so I highly recommend it find something you love invest your
time in it find a friend that will work with you just be the answer to happiness in life
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