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  1. J Snyder
    I lived on (next to) the Noyo river 1.5 mi from the mouth for a few years growing up. the school at Abalobadiah Creek was just Dean Stephens home. We built the launch under a lean to attached to his barn and the sloop in the barn. The other students dug for a new outhouse and had the launch backbone already setup. I'm sorry I missed the work on the launch but happy I missed the outhouse work. We also helped turn butter and a few other household things. For the Sloop we used Balau for the backbone very hard dark brown and heavy. Difficult to work do to the interlocking grain, The adze and planes had to be used across the grain. The ribs were steam bent white oak and Port Orford Cedar was used for the planking.
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    Yes, every journey begins with a single step. I would have loved after taking that boat building class to get into the boat building field but realizing I'm very slow and I'm a perfectionist. I knew I couldn't make money at it so I had to do something different and after commercial fishing with my dad for a while I decide to go into logging for a living. I am enjoying working on the pram. Hopefully I can knock it out pretty fast and move on to either the lobster boat model or start on my scratch build.
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    I would like to introduce myself. In 1976 I was a student at a local boat building school near Fort Bragg, CA. at Abalobadiah Creek. There were four student. Two worked on a 24ft. power launch. Another student and I worked on a William Atkin 25ft. sailboat called the Gary Thomas. I was able to stay on it till we sent it to southern Cal to be sold 14 months later. After all these years my plan is to make a series of models of the Gary Thomas starting with a POB and ending with a faithful model reproduction of the one I helped build. After the Gary Thomas builds I would like to work on a longitudinal Cutaway of the Lumber Schooner Wapama. A lot of plans but I have to start somewhere so I am starting on the Norwegian Sailing Pram. I read over quite a few build logs to get an idea of the potential problems and I have found some already. I will post a few pictures tomorrow on my progress.

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