Re: The Joy of *small* business

On 19/12/2024 05:25, rbowman wrote:

On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 21:56:21 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
 

    The last specks of Doggerland are now going under and will probably
    remain that way for thousands of years unless we get another a meteor
    hit and everything re-freezes.

 I'm not sure but in may have been Childers' 'The Riddle of the Sands'
where I read about the boats having twin keels so they would sit level
when the tide went out.

I cannot recall that in that book. Nor can I recall that being  anything normal in European boatbuilding of open sea vessels

They play it differently on the Maine coast. If
you need to apply bottom paint or do other hull work, you find a
convenient sand flat, wait for the tide to do out, and careen the boat
over. Easily done since the tidal range is about 20' up towards Canada.

That was the traditional way, yes, including N Europe.
The atlantic coasts have extreme tidal ranges. But the Baltic and Mediterranean do not
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