NEWPORTER SHIPYARD sites open

[Clyde A. Phillips]

Greetings Everyone,

I have been working on a website to put “all my stuff.” It started out OK but soon fell apart because I found out the hard way that my site builder allows only ten pictures (total, even for several websites). So, I have the website started and then opened a “Ning site” to hold my pictures and drawings. The sites are both up and running, but both are works in progress and will be growing for some time.

These are called (by me) “sister sites” because they are to be used together. The website is the base station and is the place for the articles I will produce or collect. The “Ning site” will hold the picures and drawings that are to illustrate what is said on the website. Any underlined “Newporter Shipyard” on either site is a link to the other site. I suggest that you first call up the website and click a link for the other. That should give you each site in its own window so you can go back and forth from site to site without loosing you place in either. If you use the links on the sites to go to the other they will open up each time at the home page, making it difficult to keep your thoughts in line. (I hope that was clear.)

Here are the addresses:

Newporter Shipyard website.

Newporter Shipyard with pictures.

Call ‘em up, save them as FAVORITES (even if they are not), and have fun. Comments welcome.

[Justine]

Hi Clyde,

Great job on the new website :) All the photos and drawing are so interesting!

Justine

[Clyde A. Phillips]

Justi,

Many thanks. There are a lot more pictures coming. My daughter (lead drafter for a large construction firm) now has my Newporter blueprints. She is going to digitize them for me so I can get them out to those who need them. I don't have all of them and am missing, much to my chagrin, the blueprints of the masts. (If any one has copies of these I could really use them.) I am still working on the Mast Construction page, getting more and more of it done. But it is hard to complete when I don't have measurements (lengths and positions of the solid blocking in particular). I will move to Hull Construction next, just to give give an idea of how it goes together. Blue prints are handy here, too.

But the one thing any boat builder really needs to build a boat is the one thing for the Newporter that I have never seen. That's the Table of Offsets, which gives the information the builder needs to "lay the vessel down" on the mold room floor. With that rather simple listing of numbers the whole boat can be reproduced. It is an amazing study if you want to study something.

Blessings,

Clyde

Justine said:

Hi Clyde,

Great job on the new website :) All the photos and drawing are so interesting!

Justine

[bob mitchell]

Just keeping this post at the top every now and then to remind people of the great diagrams and information available on Captain Clyde's sites.

[bob mitchell]

Moved this back up top so friend could locate easily. Rick, see wire rigging list on Newporter Shipyard photo site.