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  1. Alas, I'm doing a full-moon bike ride tonight leaving from Somerville instead -- much easier commute for me! I'm going up to Gloucester tomorrow, though! Nobody wants to do tomorrow night (or day) *too*, do they?
  2. Different people will do different things, but you certainly don't need full nautical lights in all the appropriate colors. In fact, Christopher recommends against the full nautical lights, since it can trick traffic into thinking you're a much bigger boat than you really are. A bright headlamp or flashlight which you can turn on and point to indicate the bow and stern of your boat to show exactly what you are to any oncoming traffic, plus a not-too-bright continuous LED light or glow-stick that you can affix to your boat or your person so other kayakers can identify you and see where you are, is plenty.
  3. I'll go! Friday or Saturday, either one, is probably fine for me.
  4. Current forecast (4:20am) is for thundershowers this morning. Rain date?
  5. I'd be curious to know exactly how Adam did it, but here's how I'd do it (based on poking at the moldings on my mother's Mazda 3 a few years back): pop the moldings (AKA "rails") out, look for the mountpoints, measure twice, cut once. The moldings are flexible and simply pop out with a bit of poking.
  6. I'll join you from Rockport Harbor. Christopher suggested I look for you all at 12:30 around the mouth of the harbor. If anyone else wants to join up for just this portion of the trip, I'll probably launch from the kayak shop (no parking) or paddle around from Back Beach. I'll be hanging around the rocks at the mouth of the harbor at 12:30 in a blue Elaho.
  7. Not necessarily -- the fact that it's a poor conductor doesn't matter so much if you get directly at the joint. I did something like this on the two "seller told us they were stuck and never going to come apart" paddles we bought -- one carbon fiber and one fiberglass -- and it worked like a charm on both. These actually had a button-hole ferrule system, so I poured a couple of gallons of *extremely* hot water directly on the joint and a bunch of ice water directly *into the ferrule hole* so that it filled the inside of the paddle, and then I twisted and pulled like mad, and it came out on the first try. I had no prior experience doing this with paddles, but plenty with stuck bicycle tubing, so I was pretty sure it would eventually work. This was of course after using penetrant/solvent oil as Ern suggests. Even if you can't get inside the tube with the cold water, just pour the hot water directly over the joint and try to "shock" the seal. The theory behind this is that the outer material, which is directly in contact with the heat, will expand faster than the inner material, which is not. If the two materials are different, such as an ABS plastic on the inner ferrule surface and a carbon fiber laminate on the outer tube inside, this will work even better because the two materials will expand and contract at different rates even if they were heated evenly, making the shock more drastic.
  8. I'll be there, hopefully with Liane too.
  9. Probably not, but it might be worth you calling the shop manager and detailing the exact requirements -- tell him you're the guy from HMS who the MIT alum was talking to him about earlier. Based on my conversation with him, it sounds like they still have a bad taste in their mouths from past boatbuilding projects that took up an inordinate amount of space and never got done. It's definitely worth trying to put together a bigger group, though, and MIT clearly couldn't accommodate that.
  10. Liane and I will definitely be there playing in the rocks with Pintail.
  11. I called the shop, and he said it would be at the regular membership rates of $150 (alum), $75 (fac/staff/retiree), or $30 (student) per person for a semester-long membership, and each person involved would need to have an MIT ID card. This is probably pretty easy for you to get since you're at HMS (which does loads of cross-registration with MIT) and you could probably just call up the MIT ID office and ask to get a card. For the boats to live there, they'd have to have specific agreed-upon-in-advance space takeup times during the dead of winter, because they don't have the space to store boats during the higher-demand parts of the year. They get lots of people bringing in *parts* of boats to work on, but not leaving whole boats there for extended periods of time. They *used* to let people keep boats in there all the time, but it got out-of-hand because the projects dragged on and on and were just taking up space in the shop... He said having boats there for, say, a month during the dead of winter, would probably be fine. Kayaks are small, though, and maybe they'd be more lenient once they realized how little space you'd actually take up.
  12. I can't get to Gloucester during the week, but if you ever wanted to run a seminar in Boston, I could get the MIT Hobby Shop for a "special group project" for quite cheap. http://hobbyshop.mit.edu/tools
  13. Here's some more! http://kamalic.posterous.com/moonlight-paddle-7312010
  14. Wow, you must be jetlagged big time. You're not too late -- it's happening SATURDAY night. Right now it's only Friday (or, technically, Saturday morning.) Come join us!
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