November 2023 Archives - Small Boats Magazine

Paul Gartside’s Centerboard Sloop and an outboard pleasure cruiser from Giesler and Sons are the November Boat Profiles. Space-saving sectional carbon-fiber oars and collapsible water bags are featured in our Reviews. Three simple cinches provide ways for holding and compressing bundles. Our Reader Built Boat is a sleek Rangeley Lake Boat that will ply the North Channel waters around a family cabin in Ontario. Our editor brings a discarded Piccolo lapstrake canoe home.

From The Editor

Accidental

A Piccolo lapstrake canoe made by an unknown builder falls into the editor's hands.

Boat Profile

Centerboard Sloop #226A

A new traditional rig on a proven Gartside hull

Paul Gartside’s 16′ Centerboard Sloop was designed as a daysailer and cruiser for one or two. There are three options for sailing rigs, including a gaff main with topsail.

Boat Profile

Georgian Bay

An affordable strip-built pleasure cruiser from B. Giesler and Sons

The Georgian Bay, an 18′ pleasure cruiser, is designed and built in Powassan, Ontario, by Giesler and Sons, a third-generation shop with over a century of experience building sturdy cedar-strip boats.

Adventures

SEVENTY48

A race of endurance in the Pacific Northwest

Sam Hendrix entered the SEVENTY48 for a second time in 2022 and rowed solo from Tacoma to Port Townsend, covering roughly 70 miles of Washington’s Puget Sound.

Technique

Quick Cinches

Better than bungees, cheaper than straps

For rolled-up sails and inflatable pads, tarps and sleeping bags, these three simple cinches are easy to use.

Product Reviews

Collapsible Water Bags

Convenient water-carriers from WaterStorageCube

How far you can cruise often is a function of how much potable water you can carry aboard. Collapsible bags from WaterStorageCube can fit in odd spaces and take up less room as they’re emptied.

Product Reviews

XPL Oars

Carbon-fiber sectional oars from Duckworks

The stout but feather-light carbon-fiber oars from Duckworks not only make rowing easier but also can be separated into sections to take up much less room when stowed.

Reader Built Boats

FOPA

Building a rowboat for the family

Steve Petty had built two skiffs, one for himself and one for his son; when he was looking for an excuse to build another boat, he recalled a conversation he’d had with his daughter years ago.

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