Making a Fridge Door

As I was showing Sasha how nice my fridge door fit into the fared hole in the front of the fridge box he said to me "you know you need to add another...
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Skinning the Pilot House Part 3: Cubbies

Just when we thought we were done.  Each cubby is about sixteen inches wide and twenty inches tall.  We decided to skin the back and top sides...
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ITALIA 15.98 (movie)

What a beautiful boat!!! It looks better than on the drawings and it looked very well on the drawings. This is one of the boats that makes me sorry for...
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ARC ON THE FAST LANE

And as subtitle: the expensive and the "cheap" options LOL. The ARC is almost starting and this year we have some very interesting performance cruisers...
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GITANA OPEN 60 ON FOILS: BEAUTIFULL

I am convinced: the foils do work even on very nasty weather and the Open 60's (IMOCA) continue to lead in what regards significant technological monohull...
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SALONA 44, CRUISING WORLD BOAT OF THE YEAR

The ones that follow the blog knows that I don't give much importance to the Cruising Boat magazine boat of the year: the categories are too many, the...
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POGO 36 / POGO 10.50

Let's compare dimensions and try to understand how different will the new boat be versus the old one. First dimensions for the 10.50, all the measures...
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New-To-Us Dinghy Engine

 When we bought our thirteen-foot Whaler the Mercury 30 HP engine had two major problems.  First, the hydraulic trim tilt pump was dead.  Second,...
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Green Thumb

I have wanted a garden for the longest time.  Now we have a little plot of land, and although it may be small, we hope to grow lots of herbs.  I'm...
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Preliminary Design - 60' Classic Ketch

This boat could be built in wood, fiberglass or aluminum depending on the owner's preference (and pricing). An alternate profile was also developed. ...
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EUROPEAN YACHT OF THE YEAR: THE TEST MOVIES

and don't miss these two, from Yacht.de: http://www.yacht.de/yacht_tv/test_technik/endspurt-ii-europas-yacht-des-jahres/a94741.htmlhttp://www.yacht.de/yacht_tv/test_technik/endspurt-europas-yachten-des-jahres-i/a94637.html So...
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Master List - S&S 6-Meter Designs

Here is a master list of S&S 6-Meters sorted by name, design number and year.Please note:+ Design #40 was a collaboration between S&S and Herman...
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More About Iorana - Design 1891

A blog reader was kind enough to send us these images of the beautiful A&R built sloop...

Thanks very much for sending these.

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RM 1070 first video

Impressive: It takes some time to be convinced that it is just a 35ft boat!!! What was already a very good sailboat in its first version, the 1050, become...
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GF 42 TRIMARAN

One of the most improbable projects around designed by a trendy Architect  Greg Lynn that normally designs anything but boats in association with...
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BARCELONA WORLD RACE: GREAT NEWS

And the good news is that we have a race not between two boats, as I feared, but between 4 boats. Surprisingly, at least for me, besides Stamm/Le Cam,...
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Our First Sail!

After launching, we motored for a few days just to get a feel for the boat and how a monohull moves compared to the large catamarans we are used to.  All...
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Lost Our Dinghy!

Almost a week ago we lost our dinghy!  We were motor sailing from Tortola to St. Thomas when all of a sudden Sasha called to me "Oh no, the dinghy's...
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THE NOMINATED BOATS FOR THE 2015 EUROPEAN YACHT OF THE YEAR

Contrary to the magazines boat's of the year this contest is more relevant: It is not only the testers of a magazine that chose the boat but testers from...
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