A Love Affair in Wood
Guest Speaker: CABBS Member Wes Roepke Love is blind. But to say it better, love is blinding. We know not how an invisible arrow from say the sight of auburn hair in the setting...
Category: Journal Entry
Sharpening Tools the Max Peterson Way
Our February guest speaker, Max Peterson, is a professional woodworker and amateur boatbuilder from the Pittsburgh area. He’s tried many ways to sharpen his tools to a razor’s edge. He searched for a quick...
EPOXY 101: The Basics
Epoxy plays many roles in boatbuilding. It’s glue, filler, and encapsulator. This versatile material is just short of miraculous in what it can offer to make strong watertight joints. Jim Stumpf dons the sacrificial...
Opti builders around the world
CABBS Optimist dinghy plans: Alastair shows the way Eleven-year-old Canadian, Alastair of Invermere, British Columbia purchased a set of the CABBS Optimist dinghy plan and set to work. He stated, “Dad helped, but I...
Tom Wareham: Marine Surveyor
Before you defer your boating opinions to someone who calls himself or herself a marine surveyor consider this. The profession of marine surveyor is unregulated and does not require a license. If you can...
Sixty-five Years of Wooden Boatbuilding
Guest Speaker: John Bridges John Bridges’ boatbuilding resume tallies twenty-five boats, quite a performance for an amateur builder. His interest in boating started a young boy living on the Isle of Wight in England....
Solo Sailing on the Great Lakes
Guest Speaker: Paul Nickerson President, Great Lakes Singlehanded Society Sailing solo for days on end is not for everyone. It’s too challenging for some, too isolating for others, and possibly too radical for many. Paul...
The Collision and Sinking of the CORTLAND and the MORNING STAR
Carrie Sowden has a passion for her nautical archeology profession. She brought stimulating enthusiasm to her presentation of a Lake Erie disaster happening 140 years ago. On a very dark June night in 1868,...
Charged Up and Full of Life: The Care of Batteries
Our November meeting guest speaker, Richard Price of Bulldog Battery, knows that nothing can kill the expectations of a fun day on the water faster than a dead battery in your car, truck or...
Paddle Making with Max Peterson
Max Peterson, a professional woodworker in the Pittsburgh area, believes just about anyone can make a paddle and can make it from just about any wood. He thinks of a paddle in three parts: the...
