USDA Forest Products Library, book: Wood Handbook, Wood as an Engineering Material

https://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/

A possibly useful free book (PDF, 509 pages), published by the USDA Forest Products Library (FPL) "Wood Handbook, Wood as an Engineering Material"

Another useful resource:

https://www.wood-database.com/

YouTube Channel Sailing Uma: 50 Year Old Boat - Interior Tour of their Customizations

 An inspiring transformation story - this couple bought their 50 year old boat for just $3K

 

John Post YouTube Channel: Repairing a Thru-Hull with Boat in the Water

 As demonstrated by Ethan

It Begins

  

(Image by Andrew Martin from Pixabay)

Spent Saturday clearing out some stuff from the boat lockers - carted 5 big garbage bags off to the dumpster.

It was a marvelous feeling of making some small progress - shaking off the inertia of being heads-down working on a client project for the last 15 months.

By the end of the year, I want to have found a place to stow all of the gear on the boat - and be ready to start doing some shakedown cruises out to the local islands, down the coast to San Diego, and up the coast to Monterey.

New "Navigation Resources" list entry - tideschart.com

 I received an email today from Ryan Blundell, Founder at Tideschart.com - who very kindly informed me of an issue with another link. 

His web site has excellent resources for tides:

https://www.tideschart.com/