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...when it tends otherwise.” On my bookshelf, Leopold shares space with worn volumes of those other writers more familiar to the boating ong>comong>munity, among them L. Francis Herreshoff, Pete Culler, and John Gardner. Small boats do, in fact, represent a “biotic ong>comong>munity” of sorts, and Sam Devlin’s Lit’l Petrel design is, to use Leopold’s evaluation, “right.” Three years ago, my...

...flying colors, worong>kingong> many evenings alongside Lew. There were more ong>testong>s to ong>comong>e, especially when lining up holes in ama halves to ensure a ong>perfectong> fit in final assembly. Here, Lew deemed Tom a saint, as his stalwart friend endured hours of the measuring, fitting, and cussing that went into this critical step. The akas were laid out on a...

...needs to slide ong>forong>ward to tend something. One must ong>simplyong> lean ong>forong>ward from the helm to trim the mainsail. An added benefit of ong>leadingong> lines to a single station in a family boat is the ong>comong>fort of knowing that sheet tails aren’t living with kids; I’m ever aware, when sailing with my son and his friends, of the perils of...

...and a ong>comong>municator. A great plan maker is a great teacher, and Ken’s plans put him among the very best. Embarong>kingong> on this article, I found it difficult to understand how a lone designer could be successful with such seemingly disparate areas of boat design— and this new design, as ong>comong>plete as it is, couldn’t have ong>simplyong> appeared out of...

...or it can be raced by a crew of three in one-design fleets. The cockpit is spacious, ong>comong>fortable, and practically designed, with port and starboard longitudinal benches ong>for comong>fortable seating ong>forong> three on both sides of the cockpit. The cockpit coaming lies flush with the deck, which is a significant attribute when you and the crew are hiong>kingong> out with...

...mother found her on the side of the road, looong>king forong>lorn and with a hole in the bottom. We got it back ong>for freeong>. I loaded the boat into the back of my beat-up yellow ong>Forong>d truck and brought it back to Maine, where I was now living. With subsequent renovations BANZAI was able to race again and we finished...

...Sulkava—in which many thousands of rowers ong>comong>pete in wooden boats. Anthony Shaw With a fitted tent and even a table in the cockpit, the boat has ong>comong>forts of home. Jouko Koskinen has lived most of his worong>kingong> life in Finland’s metropolitan capital, Helsinki, but he has spent time every summer back in his wife’s childhood lakeside haunts just 25 miles...