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<span class="excerpt_part">...equally radical appearance when <strong>com</strong>pared with traditional wheel-and-groove systems used on all other craft at the Sulkava gathering. Wheels are still required under the seat, but they have a pulley-like concave shape and run on top of two 7&frasl;8&Prime;-diameter stainless-steel tube rails running full length between beams attached to the two centermost frames. As well as looking very trim, the...</span>

<span class="excerpt_part">...a week&rsquo;s camp-cruising. She&rsquo;s a good, wholesome all-rounder. Salty Heaven is a surprising blend of resourcefulness, tradition, and performance. The boat is intended for day sailing and camp cruising, and most of its hardware and fittings are shop-made. Simple lug sails set on unstayed masts Particulars: LOA 17&rdquo;, Beam 5&rsquo;9&rdquo;, Draft 8&rdquo;, Sail area 146 sq ft &mdash;- This boat...</span>

<span class="excerpt_part">...the hull is inverted. A keel batten and two chines are sprung along the frames, and the outboard motor&rsquo;s transom is fitted and fastened into place. The keel batten is beveled to receive the bottom planking, and it <strong>com</strong>es to a point along the centerline. Two layers of 5 &frasl;8&Prime; cedar planking, laid on opposing diagonals, make up the bottom....</span>

<span class="excerpt_part">...No. 58, with a <strong>com</strong>mentary by Joel White, which is where I first saw her. Being boatless at the time and eager to have another boat, as well as the experience of building one, I was immediately taken with her straightforward and strong look, which harked back to less <strong>com</strong>plicated and saner times. The very favorable <strong>com</strong>ments of Joel White...</span>

<span class="excerpt_part">...open waters. Early models, which primarily featured pointed bows and sterns, varied greatly in style, depending on the builder. Once <strong>com</strong>missioned by the Heritage group, Pierce studied various plans, including Nelson Zimmer&rsquo;s 20th-century version of the Mackinaw boat, in preparation for <strong>com</strong>pleting his design. Although based on historical Mackinaw lines, the Heritage 23 is designed to be constructed with lightweight...</span>

<span class="excerpt_part">...<strong>com</strong>fortable ride. Once work began on the interior, the builders adjusted the seating plan. Moving the forward bench aft a few inches provided greater legroom and <strong>com</strong>fort for the helmsman and a passenger. Two stern seats, separated by a storage cabinet, <strong>com</strong>pleted the arrangement. Outboard fuel tanks are stored under the seats, which were fabricated from mahogany plywood. Most internal...</span>

<span class="excerpt_part">...extra maststep will probably never be solved, but it would be very interesting to see how many different ways you could rig her. She is big enough at 20&prime; LOA and 5&prime; 5&Prime; beam to carry the gear required for a weekend on the island, but small enough to trailer to another destination next week. This is a timeless boat,...</span>

<span class="excerpt_part">...to see what was holding them up, like an irritating youngster who has <strong>com</strong>pletely outpaced the oldies. She was the only boat that day that photographed well, with hull, rig, and sails doing her credit. If I needed to get back to harbor in a turbulent sea and didn&rsquo;t want to spend all afternoon doing it, I would feel confident...</span>

<span class="excerpt_part">...powerboats with traditional aesthetic qualities for <strong>com</strong>posite construction. The thinking was that the new workboat should look traditional but have the capacity to perform at high speeds, and this was a <strong>com</strong>bination Fitzgerald had achieved many times before. The trick would be having him design it to be built with traditional heavy plank-on-frame construction. Aaron Porter While designer Mark Fitzgerald...</span>

<span class="excerpt_part">When I think of powerboats I don&rsquo;t usually equate them with a relaxing ride and quiet conversation, yet the Starry Nights design (20&prime; LOA, 57&Prime; beam), a new torpedo-sterned electric launch from designer and builder Ken Bassett, handily fulfills those purposes. Her six 12-volt AGM batteries power her 3-hp electric motor, enabling her to cruise at 5 mph for up...</span>

<span class="excerpt_part">...the legendary oar- and paddlemaking <strong>com</strong>pany Shaw &amp; Tenney (see page 40). Old Town Canoe today manufactures a big range of canoes and kayaks in molded plastic. Stelmok, on the other hand, builds wood-and-canvas canoes, and Old Town Dinghies, at his shop in Atkinson, Maine. Wood-and-canvas canoes are an evolution of the famed Native American birchbark canoes. They are framed...</span>

<span class="excerpt_part">In 1901, Thomas Fleming Day, who founded The Rudder a decade earlier, conceived a boat that would bring ocean voyaging to the <strong>com</strong>mon man. Simple enough to be built by amateurs, small enough to be singlehanded, and big enough for long passages, the Sea Bird yawl still beckons those with a se<strong>nse</strong> of adventure. She was originally a centerboarder, but...</span>

<span class="excerpt_part">...his own bronze fittings, including pintles and gudgeons. The large, open cockpit is <strong>com</strong>modious&mdash;on my boat, which is a little less than 18&prime;, I&rsquo;ve had six aboard quite easily, and four in <strong>com</strong>fort routinely. The Beetle boat has a one-sheet plan showing lines, details of the centerboard (which I altered in everything but length and placement), stem profile, rudder profile,...</span>

<span class="excerpt_part">This is a gentleman&rsquo;s Whitehall.&rdquo; That&rsquo;s how Steve Holt describes the Shaw &amp; Tenney Whitehall, a 17&prime; 9&Prime; recreational rowboat based on a legendary 19th-century working type. Holt is proprietor of Shaw &amp; Tenney, the 150-year-old, Orono, Maine&ndash;based maker of wooden oars and paddles. The <strong>com</strong>pany itself is something of a <strong>com</strong>mercial legend for its longstanding success in its small...</span>

<span class="excerpt_part">Peter Lamoureaux, a strong oarsman, <strong>com</strong>missioned his friend John Brooks to create a pulling boat that he might race and then, after the <strong>com</strong>petition, row out to an island with his wife for a picnic. The resulting Peregrine 18 has proven fast, easy to row, and handsome. Preliminary sketches indicate that this design began, more or less, as a Whitehall...</span>

<span class="excerpt_part">...<strong>com</strong>mon in New England beginning in the early 19th century. By the end of that century, transom sterns were more popular on this type, and motors eventually came to dominate them; the iconic Maine lobsterboat is likely an evolution of the type, as its bow profile and forward sections will attest. Hampton boats were carried on schooners and sold to...</span>