How Cool is This!!!

[Willy Landham]

[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]There is a boat building magazine over in England that is interested in doing a picture story series on the boat that I

[FISHBONE]

Congrats, man! You're doing something you love and it's paying off - doesn't get much better than that.

[SusieAndAl]

Outstanding! Let us know how it goes.

[Abacoparrott]

You go Landham! Ken

[Willy Landham]

I'm going to start rounding up all my picture negatives this weekend to send off. I'll be featured in a couple issues towards the end of the year. They're even going to pay me! Again... How cool is this!

[SamFamAustin]

Wow, that's cool Willy ... have any new boat-building pics?
sammie

[Willy Landham]

Only one more Sam. Mostly I've been figuring out how I want to finish out the interior. I'm leaning towards using half frames to make it easier to install the risers and gunwales as well as to lend more of a traditional look to the boat. To that end I built this jig last weekend to spile the shape for the half frames. They'll be joggled to fit nicely against the hull interior.

[Willy Landham]

[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Hey Doc

[patw]

Is this it Willy??
http://www.watercraft.co.uk/

[Willy Landham]

My article is the second one listed on the cover: Clinker Plywood Boatbuilding - In Pictures. "Clinker" is the British term for "Lapstrake".

[justsue294]

Willy, that is awesome. It says on the web sight that you can get single issues. Do you have an ideal when you'll be completing the boat?
Congradulations!!!
Sue

[SamFamAustin]

WTG Willy!

My Chapelle boat building book refers to "clench built" boats as the same as lapstrake, maybe an American term. As Chapelle says it is the most difficult kind of construction and not used much more in the US. However, the famous Block Islander and Jersey Sea Skiff were once popular clench-built boats, sometimes as long as 50 feet. The term "clench" refers to nailing the lapstrake through the ribs and turning the pointy end of the nail down with a light hammer, preventing the nail from working back out. Now days we use screws and epoxy, right Willy!
/sam

[culp]

Very cool and exciting, Willie. Keep us posted.:)

[BahamaAngie]

Congratulations Willy!

[Willy Landham]

[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Sue - I

[Patti Puzo]

Mornin' Willy, Any chance we could see a few more pictures of the progress? Have you decided on a name yet?

[Willy Landham]

Hey you need to give your dang baseball team a swift kick in the shorts. What was that last night? Heck, my Texas Rangers could have played that well.

As far as the boat goes...

[FONT=Century Gothic]Things have been very busy lately so I

[SamFamAustin]

All kinds of traditions but I heard a similar story that "she ain't got a name until she's christened." For this you need a beautiful woman (daughter, wife, hopefully not a mistress :eek:) and a bottle of champs or something to smash on the bow. However, small boats didn't get the champaign treatment, Willy, just have a toast and be jolly.

"I now christen thee the ___________ " and the boat should slide nicely into the water, hopefully not dragging the wife/daughter/mistress with it. :rolleyes:

Don't ever change the name of the boat, which is extremely bad luck. Good luck is to put a coin under the mast and never remove the coin. Just old sailor stories, I guess.

And Chapelle is an excellent read if you like woodworking - a little thick on the writing style but loads of diagrams and history. Good luck with the ribs, Willy. /sam

[BahamaAngie]

I heard that too! The bad luck is only with changing the name of the boat! I remember seeing a movie with this couple aboard on a voyage, she fell overboard and he went over to save her and the boat sailed past them and that was it for them.....the moral of the story was that they had changed the name of the boat in the beinning of the move (the movie always stayed with me). Good movie! Anyway, Willy, mahogony is going to be so cool. Seeing that boat sailing by will be BEAUTIFUL!

[SamFamAustin]

On the finer yachts the name on the stern was always done with real gold leaf or real gold paint, varnished over 7 times. It's a lost art and nowadays everybody hires some guy with a can of paint. To change the name of a boat was usually an act of piracy - which is perhaps where the bad luck story started.

[BahamaAngie]

Interesting.

[justsue294]

Willy, I haven't been around long enough to know if Landham is really your last name or not but I like "Land's End"
Sue