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I'm not sure if I should post under Science fiction on under illustration. I'm an author illustrator (and publisher) . I write science fiction books and also do the book design and illustrations. My card modeling experience comes in handy. A paperback book is basically a card model, same paper...

As a science fiction author I've been struggling with designing maps for inclusion in books. Many writers start by scrawling a map on a piece of paper. This maps usually end up with single rectangular continents often with unrealistic rivers which have little relationship to coastline and...

I'm back. 8 years ago I was working quite a bit on cardmodels, but I had to get a job :-( and that cut into my time. I held the job for 6 years but burned out and it was a low paying job. I realized that if I refinanced my house I could afford to write science fiction full time. I did. I...

Beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

I've started on another boat. Uh oh two going at once. This is out of a book called "Devlin's Boat Building: how to bild any boat the stitch-and-glue way" Samual Devlin has developed a method of boat building which uses plywood and fiberglass. He stitches the plywood parts together with wire...

Love the vocabulary. What exactly is "bobsprit gammoning," "bobstay", Oh at the words from a earlier post "fishcheeks?" "captree?" I would love to see a list with a sample of your great vocabulary and what the words mean.

a passion for articles Oh my! you have me laughing. I was completely mystified by the problem with "the HMS". I read it three times and didn't get it. I'm accustomed writters getting worked up about grammar. I can get worked up about it myself. Didn't think I'd see such passion over...

What I've found is that catboats have the mast all the way forward. They are also broad of beam. They often have a deep cooming around the cockpit, a big "barn door" rudder, and are gaff rigged. I haven't figured out which of these characteristics are essentual to classifying a boat as a catboat.

Oh I love it. Nice to see more small boats. Looks to me if you scaled it up and added urethane it would not only float but hold a rower.

Photos of cheasepeake bay flattie Here is a photo of the partly built wooden version and of two preliminary white-build version in paper. The centerboard goes up with a pull of the string.

Cardstalker, Aww thanks. It's nice that you've missed me. Manuscript #2 is done and I'm sending out query letters to agents. I shifted to a romance/science-fiction emphasis--here's hoping I can get both the guys and the gals reading. Got the boats for the guys and the true love for the gals...

I'm back after being gone a year or so. I got busy with work and with writing my third science fiction novel. What do you know more boats are showing up in my writing. First off is the royal yacht, the Shewolf. She's about 60 meters long with grand salon, meeting rooms and the queen's suite. To...

I talked to my Dad about my great uncles. It was my uncle John not Uncle Joe who built boats. He always wanted to have a boat yard and it never worked out. He worked during WWII in Bellingham. And Dad says he worked on mine sweaper boats. Uncle Henry according to my Dad designed landing...

According to what my grandfather told me, two of my great uncles were involved in building and designing this general type of boat. My great uncle Joe(Joseph Herzog) started off boating on the Sacramento River. He built row boats and canoes until WWII when people with wooden boat building...

That is definitely on my mental list of boats.

I've got a chance of being published. I showed a mockup of a picture book to a publisher's rep. She likes it and wants me to send a copy to "the commitee." She was also excited about my idea of doing kid's books containing cardmodels of Alaskan boats. She suggested some more boats that I hadn't...

I'm eiger to see the pictures. Hey, I love when someone else does small boats.

The railings are mostly 20 gauge wire. The antennas are made of scrap. I've got a chunk of what must be telephone cable made of bundled wire with colored insulation. It's about 3 inches thick. I pulled antenna wire out of the bundle.

Clunk myself on the head. I'm a bit dense.

Its the P/V Chinook Wind which is a RAIV custom made by Almar for Noaa Fisheries Enforcement. Is the B1-RD another type of boat made by Almar?