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“The GLEN-L 13 is an ideal, all-around, sailing craft. The cockpit is roomy for family sailing, and yet the simple rig can be easily handled by one person. Here's a safe boat, but one which gives good performance and nimble handling. Two years were spent in the research, design, construction, and testing of the prototype to prove this design before offering it to you.”

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I started this project on 3/1/2011 and completed it (mostly) on 8/20/2011. Glen-L has been great to work with and I would appreciate seeing my photos on your website. I believe I got more than I gave to Glen-L. I have sailed as far as 20mi on an outing and it sails very well. Coming out of the Ottawa river I hit a huge crosswind and was knocked down mast to the water and I only got a small amount of water in the boat that I sponged out. I am thoroughly enjoying sailing as I did building. Thank you, Jeff McKie

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Glen-L 15 by Rob Edmondson, Rainier, Washington 31 July, 2009 I\'ve been working on my Glen-L 15 for several years off and on. Mostly I\'ve been working on it this year. It\'s a great design and we really love working on this boat. We\'ve made some minor changes that suit us and make the boat ours. Other than that though, we\'ve followed the plan.

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Glen-L 15 by Dave Chumley, Lavergne, Tennessee May 18, 2009 I’m getting a lot of enjoyment from the build of the Glen-L 15 and my 2 year old son loves to come out and help me.

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Glen-L: Exactly two years after receiving the plans in the mail, I launched \"Margarete\", a Glen-15. The 2 years includes demolishing and building a new garage, halfway through the project, as I decided my shop was too small. Your easy to follow plans and directions helped me feel like an old pro. The finished boat, and the response I get when showing her, are more rewarding than I could have ever imagined. The entire process has been a real confidence builder. When asked how long I worked on it, I reply zero hours; no work, all fun. She sails beautifully and was such a pleasure to build. Please add the attached photos to your Customer Photos section. I\'ve got my eye on Lo Voltage next. Next, that is, after building a Kayak that I designed using the skills and confidence I gained building Margarete. Thank You, Rich Dufresne Portland, Oregon

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Darla: I finished and launched \"My Own Hands\" in late September. Now that the ice and snow is here, I have put her safely away and have some time to send out pictures. It was a challenging labor of love. There were times when I thought I had made too many mistakes to cover, that it would never float let alone sail. I was wrong. She sails beautifully--especially when I put a knowledgeable sailor at the helm! Thanks for your support and the support of the Glen-L staff during the process. Sincerely, Mike Flynn

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Here\'s the status of the GL 15 as of 1-12-01. Information for you other boat builders, and anyone else interested, she is now ready (finally) for the chines\' to be installed. Keel, centerboard trunk and all frames are installed and secured. She\'s still a loooooong way from complete but gettin\' there. Andy

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Photos Updated 29 May 2012 I began construction on 8/30/2010; completed the building form on 9/1/2010, and obtained the planking Marine plywood 9/2/2010. My objective is to complete the boat by next summer in time for my grandkids. 8 February 2012 Update: It may be mid-summer before the boat floats. I am just now working on the interior buildout, then painting, then decking, then rigging, then sails, then launching. I am decking the stern end a bit to accomodate the motor fuel tank and supplies. 29 May 2012 Update: If you can believe it, I have installed the decking, but still have the trimming to do. I need to find some half-round for the bumper rail; finish the decking; cut and install the coaming; do a bit of trim; and then it\'s to the rigging.

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November 21, 2018 "I love the Glen-L 15 design and the comprehensive plans and building notes. You do good work."

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May 2013 I completed a Glen-L 15! Started it on New Year’s Day (give or take a day) and finished on the Fourth of July! Thanks for your help and feedback along the way! I\'m trying to get my notes and comments from my build pulled together in a coherent format. Maybe you could call it \"Boat-Building For REAL Dummies\" or \"If a 55-year-old Computer Programmer Can Build One So Can You!\"

May 19, 2013 I began building this boat in late Sept. 2012, and hope to be complete by June 2013. So far the project is proceeding well. Please check out the photo gallery of the boat so far. I will be posting more photos as I progress.

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Update July 2013 I am almost finished building my Glen-L 15 \"Scoot\" (recent photo attached) P.S. Thanks for all of the messages you send, they are all very helpful! May 18, 2009 I have been working on a Glen-L 15 for about a year and am making some progress (work gets in the way of working on the boat).

31 August 2013 I am very proud to send you a few photos of my GLEN-L 15 started on October 2010 and finally completed and launched 5th May 2013. Throughout the building of BLUE DART, as she has been named, has been, without any doubt, \"a labour of love.\" In my retirement, the build has provided and afforded me with the time to complete the construction with an enjoyable and therapeutic experience. With some help from my Grandson and a willing friend, it has been rewarding and satisfying throughout, working at a leisurely pace. Trailering BLUE DART to her inaugural launch caused lots of \"head turning\" and many a question to be answered. Needless to say, the praises of the Glen-L team were sung from the top of each passing coconut tree. So here she is now - sailing beautifully in the blue Caribbean Sea. A proud Lady indeed!!! Thanks once again Glen-L for assisting me to build a truly lovely boat.

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20 December 2013 I was browsing the web site and thought I\'d send in a couple of action shots. Built the boat in 2003. Live in Vineland, New Jersey and Sail at Union Lake, Millville, New Jersey

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Tula, Russia: Land of Gingerbread, Samovars and Tolstoy

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Fall was always my favorite season growing up.

Something about the air turning crisper, the weather getting colder. The leaves turning yellow and brown and orange. And of course Halloween.

It’s that back-to-school weather that any person growing up in the United States loves.

So it was a special treat to be able to experience what fall was like in a different country on a different continent, in a country so unknown in the west. To experience fall in Russia.

Maybe it’s because the season is so short here, but autumn in Russia is truly special.

For starters, it only lasts one month. Fall rolls in during the second half of September and ends in the first half of October. After that winter is already in the air.

But during that brief four-week period, when the country transitions from summer to winter, the Russian countryside explodes into the most beautiful mosaic of red and orange and brown and yellow.

They call it ‘zolotaja osenj’ here, or ‘golden fall.’

It was during this time of year I decided to head outside of Moscow and visit Tula, a city located three hours south of Moscow.

The year was 2017. I was living in Moscow working for a Russian newspaper. October had just arrived.

I was living with another American at the time working in Moscow. We both didn’t want to waste a beautiful crisp sunny autumn day cooped up in Moscow in the apartment.

So we took out a map and looked at what cities nearby we could visit.

We looked North, East, West and finally South. And there she was. Tula.

We’d read a lot of good things about Tula before. How Tula was the birthplace of Leo Tolstoy. That it was where a traditional Russian desert called pryaniki, or ‘gingerbread’ originated.

How for centuries Tula supplied the Russian empire with weapons and arms. And that samovars, what Russians used to make tea and keep water hot, originated from there.

Throw in a Kremlin too, which the city had, and the choice was obvious. We should visit Tula.

And off we went. To enjoy the Russian autumn in the Russian provinces.

How to get to Tula

There are two ways to get to Tula from Moscow. You can take a suburban train, known as elektrichkas, or you can take a regular train. The regular train costs more, and will take you there directly. In this case, Tula is usually the first stop of a longer train ride headed south toward Voronezh and Ukraine.

The other option, which we opted for, was the elektrichka. Elektrichkas are suburban trains that connect surrounding cities to Moscow. The elektrichka takes longer, three hours as opposed to an hour and a half. But the benefit is it is cheap. And you get to see all the smaller cities the train stops in.

When we went, the train was packed full of Russians heading to their dachas for the weekend.

Churches all across the Soviet Union were declared to have ‘no historic value’ and torn down. Churches that were several centuries old. Comunist style administration buildings were put in their place. Monuments to Russian czars were also destroyed and replaced by statues of Lenin.

In the 1980s under Gorbachev an effort was made to restore churches that had been neglected for decades under communism. The domes were put back in place and religious services began once more.

In 2006 the building was finally returned back to the Russian Orthodox Church. Somehow, Tula’s Uspensky Sobor managed to survive 80 years of neglect under Soviet rule. Let’s hope the 21st century treats it better.

It too faced threats of disappearing forever under the communists. In the 1920s the dome was torn down but the remainder of the building was left untouched. For a while it functioned as a school, and then in 1960 the building was deemed to be part of the city’s architectural heritage and received protected status.

It’s interesting to compare Kremlins in Russia and when they were built. As far as Tula is concerned, it’s Kremlin isn’t the oldest, but neither is it the youngest.

• Veliky Novgorod – 1490
• Moscow – 1495
• Nizhny Novgorod – 1515
• Tula – 1520
• Zaraisk – 1531
• Kolomna – 1531
• Astrakhan – 1581
• Smolensk – 1602
• Rostov – 1680

There’s actually a lot more kremlins in Russia, depending on how you define a Kremlin. Technically many monetarists could be considered Kremlins, but are classified as religious objects, such as Sergiev Posad or Zvenigorod . Some have only been partly preserved, such as Kolomna . In any case, Tula gets the honor of being one of a handful of Russian cities with a Kremlin that’s been fully preserved.

In Moscow, the Kremlin is closed to the public. In order to visit, you have to pay. And as a result, nobody gets to enjoy the Kremlin. Tourists will pay and go inside when they visit the city. But the actual residents of Moscow, the people that live in the city, never get to enjoy it. It feels separated from the city, not like an integral part of it.

It wasn’t always like this. Up until the Bolshevik revolution in 1917, Moscow’s Kremlin was open to the public and anybody could walk in and out of it. It functioned just like the Kremlins in Tula, Nizhny Novgorod, Veliky Novgorod and so forth.

Moscow should learn from these cities and open their own Kremlin up to the public. The city would become much more attractive.

One problem in Tula were the wide streets that favored cars. Tula’s main street in the city that went through the center of the city had three lanes for cars going in each direction.

It was no wonder, therefore that cars drove very fast. In fact, I was quite surprised at just how loud Tula was for a city of only half a million people. It felt like on every street there was the constant noise of cars rushing by.

What should Tula do instead? Streets like these should be reduced in size and preference given to pedestrians and cyclists. Two lanes in the middle should go toward a tram line, the other two narrowed in size to make way for a bike lane going in both directions.

Tula in fact, had tram lines operating on its main streets up until WWII, before the government decided to get rid of them.

Giving the streets back to the people would make the city a more comfortable place to live.

What I love most about these buildings is how colorful they are. They are all painted in different colors.

Unfortunately many of them were in bad shape. Traditional wooden buildings in Russia are in danger of disappearing forever. All across the country these buildings are being torn down as people move to cities and forget about the buildings where their grandparents grew up and came from. I wrote an entire separate post about the topic here about a street in Tula that was filled with these wooden buildings.

This is one of the oldest cemeteries in the city. Built in 1772, it contained some of the oldest graveyards and tombs in the city from over 100 years ago.

Tula was the city where the majority of Russian samovars were produced in the 19th century. You could find them all over Europe and chance are if you live in an old house and look in the attic, you will find a samovar that was made in the city of Tula.

Tula was an amazing city to visit in the fall. Russia can have extreme weather. Most of the year is covered in snow, but you have brief glimpses of fall, spring and summer that can be enjoyed.

These photos capture what fall in Russia is like. We happened to spend them in Tula, but really, any Russian city will look this beautiful in the fall.

When it comes t othe city of Tula itself, it is a great day trip outside of Moscow. The city is beaming with history. The armaments factory, the Kremlin, the wooden buildings in the center of the city, the beautiful cemetery atop the hill and the delicious Russian pryaniki all combine to make this worth the trek outside of Moscow.

Be sure to add it to your itinerary when you visit Russia and Moscow.

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The feature that sets the GLEN-L 15 apart is the big cockpit. There's over 18 lineal feet of seating and plenty of foot room. The boat is ideal for a large family, and is safe and stable. The sloop rig provides excellent performance, and if desired, the jib may be left in the bag and the boat sailed single-handed. The main sail is large enough to allow good performance by itself. The GLEN-L 15 can perform double duty as a light fishing skiff or utility boat by using a lightweight outboard motor up to 7-1/2 horsepower. Sailing and building your own GLEN-L 15 is simple, even for the beginner. Our Plans are specially intended for the amateur. You can outfit yours just as our designers intended it to be, by using our various kits. Whichever way you decide to build, you and your family will enjoy both building and sailing the GLEN-L 15.

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