Reader Built Boats
SEA BESTIA
A race boat built for a holiday challenge
Our Boat Profiles hit the beach with the famed Hobie 16, fast sailing cat and the Fine, a sliding-seat strip-built wherry. Editor Christopher Cunningham recounts rowing the Lower Mississippi River, the second leg of his 2,400-mile winter adventure, and looks back at his unlikely path to Small Boats, which began with a bicycle accident. A DIY boat hoist with tracks and trollies works in garages with overhead sliding doors. A flexible epoxy and a pair of spruce spoon-blade oars get put to the test and a Scottish ferry worker makes a one-sheet outboard runabout for a race against his shipmates.
Reader Built Boats
A race boat built for a holiday challenge
From The Editor
From backpack to bicycle to boat
Boat Profile
A sliding-seat pulling boat with excellent stability
Adventures
850 miles from Cairo, Illinois, to New Orleans, Louisiana
Technique
Lifting a boat up and sideways for storage
Product Reviews
An epoxy with flexibility
Product Reviews
Beautiful oars that inspire good rowing
Boat Profile
More than fifty years old and as popular as ever