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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • You suffer from false nostalgia. The old machine is a beast, yes, but it has a swing shuttle. It holds very little thread, is hard to wind and load, gets tangled and makes a really crappy lockstitch. Has no reverse, piss poor stitch length adjustment and not enough balls to handle any layers without the belt slipping.

    The new one is a piece of crap in comparison of build quality, but in terms of function and utility it blows the old one out of the water. And price.

    I have an old one and have used it lots. It’s fun to use, but far from efficient. I’ll keep it around for the apocalypse but I’ll use a modern one from at least the 70’s (the nineteen seventies).





  • I really only watch cruisers during their refit periods, so I have been paying attention. They gutted it and then built foam stringers and completely gassed the inside. Like, built another hull inside the boat. They were all proud that the boat was so strong now they wouldn’t need any bulkheads. Then they proceeded to put in plywood bulkheads. And a plywood dodger. And so many G10 backer plates on everything, bedded with massive gobs of thickened epoxy. All this isn’t bad in isolation, but it all adds up. They haven’t even started installing the systems yet and it seems heavy. Next they’ll put 7 thousand pounds of batteries. Really interested to see it launch. But they’re quite good at showing only what they want seen so it might not be the big reveal I’m waiting for.