People can die when you vent your frustrations. Within a message from the local Sheriff in Island County, WA (included at the end of this post) was this statement: “I am thankful that we are willing to cut each other a little slack to vent our frustrations.” You, and all…

Before you get involved in another family’s disagreement; ask some basic questions. Especially if you fear something more is going on or someone is in danger. Do not undermine our parenting and put our daughter and us at risk because of your bias and prejudice. A police officer entered our…

There is around 6 months delay between things boat related happening and me posting them here. Very little got done this summer, work took over in April and I didn’t get a breather until September. Although, this happened…

The last post explained some of the details of forming the core. this weekend was a sprint to generate them. A couple of Adderall and all nighter later, and we’ve got them validated and cutting! To summarize, the goal was to take the hull design provided by the designer, and…

Boat builders will often choose for as simple hull shapes as possible, which means as many “developable” surfaces joined together as possible to make the whole shape of the hull. A developable surface is one which has no Gaussian curvature (i.e can be flattened without compressing or stretching it). While…