Re: Workshops for RVs and Sailboats

[Richard J Kinch]

I admire anyone who can sail or work metal. If anyone is able to do both at the same time, then I am in awe.

[Gunner Asch]

I have both sail boats and machine tools....Im in awe of anyone who can find time to use both.

Gunner

"Not so old as to need virgins to excite him, nor old enough to have the patience to teach one."

[Ed Huntress]

My 1945 South Bend 10L is a special shipboard model built for the Navy. The only thing special about it is that it has (or had) two motors -- one 110 Vac, single phase, and the other DC. You could flip the primary belt from one to the other to change motors. The DC motor was removed before I got it, possibly before it was sold surplus, so I never got to see it. The machine also has a base that's heavier than anything in the contemporaneous South Bend catalogs, but that may have been just a general military issue item rather than anything special for shipboard use.

Anyway, I could see running this thing on board a big carrier or battleship, but I wonder what it was like trying to get a uniform finish while aboard a destroyer in a rough sea. d8-)

Maybe TMT could make room for one of these...

-- Ed Huntress

[Leon]

When I think truck camper, I think the shell that sets on top of the bed rails that is no taller than the cab top and simply lets you lay down protected from the elements in the bed of the truck. I am familiar with what you have, I guess when I commented full blown RV I really should have said "dedicated" RV and or Motor Home.

[Doug Winterburn]

That'd be a "Canopy" or "Cap".

[Pete C.]

I usually hear those referred to as "truck cap" or "camper shell".

I particularly like the truck camper as it is as capable as the truck you put it on i.e. 4x4, lets you tow whatever else you need and you can still offload it at a campsite to use the truck separately. Of course, not having any running gear makes maint. simpler, and when you wear out a truck, you just get a new one. With a crew cab pickup and a camper with extended cab-over you get plenty of bed space too. On my 3500 dually, I can carry the camper and tow my 10,000# cargo trailer with ease.

[Gunner Asch]

Or "shell" as commonly used in the western states.

"Not so old as to need virgins to excite him, nor old enough to have the patience to teach one."

[RAM³]

"J. Clarke" wrote in rec.crafts.metalworking:

And the strength + direction of the wind in relationship to sail area and the course of the boat.

[Leon]

In Texas as well as other places they are known as campers.

[J. Clarke]

High freeboard and narrow beam means heeled way over to get water into the scuppers. Low freeboard and broad beam means it comes in at a much lower angle of heel.

[cavelamb]

Then you had better tack the keel too!

[Calif Bill]

Don't know about sailboat workshops, but might not be much call for such. As to RV's there are a couple of full time RVers that have a shop in a trailer. Set up a toy hauler trailer as a shop and if small enough shop and small Toad car could fit inside also.

[russellseaton1]

The Workshop Book by Scott Landis has a chapter on small/portable shops. A few of RVs. Not sure about boats. And a story or two about people who have tiny shops at home and basically use hand tools. Or when traveling to jobs use hand tools.