{"id":3350,"date":"2022-03-21T13:46:23","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T17:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/?p=3350"},"modified":"2022-03-21T13:53:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T17:53:51","slug":"ptw-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/ptw-update\/","title":{"rendered":"PTW Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

This first quarter of 2022 has been interesting for Russell and I here at Port Townsend Watercraft.<\/p>\n

Chesapeake Light Craft continues successful production of the PT 11 Nesting Dinghy Kit. You can see the details on their page here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What has changed?<\/p>\n

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PT 11 Nesting Dinghy kit packed for shipping from Chesapeake Light Craft 2022<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There is a price difference from our previous rates. This was to be expected. For one thing, CLC includes the WEST SYSTEM<\/a> Epoxy Kit that had been an option on our package. We are happy about this because we have always recommended WEST SYSTEM for this project. Anther big one is that our cost of the connective hardware doubled. They are, however, exquisite thanks to a local machine shop here in PT. The total kit price hike reflects both the inclusion of the epoxy kit and material price increases across the board from plywood to stainless steel. That considered, customer investment has not increased by much because we made efforts to streamline production of certain parts to offset those inevitable material price increases. Russell and I would have been hard pressed to continue production on our own with all this factored in..<\/p>\n

CLC also has a well established packing system for their kits. This makes the kit package more manageable than our long and heavy plywood crate.<\/p>\n

In our shop in Port Townsend we have finally been touched by the “supply chain delays” talked about in the daily news streams. A lack of sail cloth, delayed our sail production. We finally learned this after several ETA predictions that came and went without sails. We are assured this time that sails are on their way so we can ship out the rigs on order. (Talk about stress!<\/em>)\"ptwatercraft.com\"<\/a>Russell has been doing a deep dive into the boat building technique referred to as ‘Tortured plywood’. One of the 3 foot models (of which there are at least 8 versions), have been translated into 27ft long hulls. This project has been both exciting and frustrating beyond expectation. More to come on that later.<\/p>\n

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Early and very deceptive stage of tortured plywood hulls. This technique is somewhat miraculous.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Jzerro ‘flying’ in Puget Sound<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Those who know about Russell’s earlier boats, including his windward proas, may have seen our videos of “Jzerro<\/a>“. We sold Jzerro a few years ago and of late, have anxiously followed the new owner Ryan Finn, on his massive journey from New York to San Francisco via Cape Horn<\/em>. This last week, Ryan rounded Cape Horn successfully<\/strong> and has been flying northward at speeds from 9 to 19MPH on the edges of and through gales and rough seas. You can follow his tracker progress here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Also see 2 Oceans 1 Rock on FB for descriptions of his journey.<\/p>\n

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More updates to come soon, including the 2022 Shipwright’s Regatta this Saturday<\/em> (Postponed a month due to a gale in the bay in FEB 26th. (there may be more than one PT 11 this year!) and an update on our new goose-neck design. AEB \ud83d\ude09<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This first quarter of 2022 has been interesting for Russell and I here at Port Townsend Watercraft. Chesapeake Light Craft continues successful production of the PT 11 Nesting Dinghy Kit. You can see the details on their page here. What has changed? There is a price difference from our previous rates. This was to be…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,49,1,13,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-events","category-kit-options","category-nesting_dinghies","category-nesting-pt-11-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3350"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3362,"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350\/revisions\/3362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}