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From The Editor
To Dream, Perchance to Sleep
Bedding down in a lapstrake canoe
May 2024
Two trailer-sailers of French design – François Vivier’s Stir-Ven 19 and Antoine Mainfray’s Flow 19 – are this month’s Boat Profiles. A versatile inflatable fender and a set of effective countersinks are featured in our Product Review pages, while an exciting new approach to finishing wooden kayaks is explored in our Technique feature. Starting with trees grown on his own land, a skilled amateur boatbuilder in the Finger Lakes region of New York builds a 19′ faering, and a retired woodworking teacher turns his hand to his first boatbuilding project and constructs a small runabout for lake use. And our editor takes his lapstrake canoe to a small pond with a modest, yet ultimately unobtainable goal.
