Boat Profile
Bella 10
A breeze to build, a pleasure to row
...boat back on course. Rowing hard into an 8’-knot wind and waves just beginning to curdle before whitecapping, the
Boat Profile
Lawton Tender by Newfound Woodworks
A classic tender for strip-plank construction
...plan
Product Reviews
AR-Tech LED Flashlight + Lantern
Five functions and it floats
...front end keeps the flashlight from rolling and has two holes
Boat Profile
Squirt
A Glen-L runabout
...in mind. On the water it is best with people of average height and weight and ta
Adventures
Pond Island
A dinghy built for two
...munchkins finally called it a day and vamoosed, we picked ourselves up and rowed over to the beach. The tide was almost fully out at this point, leaving about five yards of sandy beach above a hundred yards of rocky mud below, with scattered knee-high rocks stic
Boat Profile
Minahouët
A well balanced sail-and-oar dinghy
...falls into place naturally. When you build a boat manually, there’s always the risk of ma
Boat Profile
The Tolman Skiff
A boat for all seasons
...own ma
Boat Profile
The Simmons Sea Skiff
A seaworthy outboard fishing boat
...tanks once or twice a month during the boating season. The 20- and 22-footers have better seakeeping abilities than the 18s. The labor to build the larger boats hardly differs from the smaller ones, but there is a cost difference in
Boat Profile
Song Wren
A Devlin gaff-rigged cutter
...in 2011 as a
Technique
Vacuum-Bagging
Working under pressure
...perforated film and slowly soaks the bleeder layer, which will later be discarded. The resulting ‘glass/wood
From The Editor
Getting Beneath the Surface
After an afternoon kaya
Adventures
Sunlight’s Wake
An inland cruise aboard SOUL CAT, a solar-powered catamaran
...in the ma
From The Editor
Galápagos Islands
Differing with Darwin
...what Darwin wrote about them. Galápagos marine iguana Amblyrhynchus cristatus (Galapagos marine iguana) Darwin wrote of the Galápagos marine iguana: It is extremely
From The Editor
Swamp Creek
...I
Reader Built Boats
A Kid-Built Curragh
Working with withies
...most recent projects at the school, Ric added a new dimension to experiential learning: building boats with
Boat Profile
Elf
A plywood faering from Iain Oughtred
From all the refined creations of the designer Iain Oughtred presented in the intriguing biography A Life in Wooden Boats, written by Nic
From The Editor
Father’s Day
...out of the basement was through a window that had an opening scarcely 31″ wide. I used Tom Hill’s Ultralight Boatbuilding as a guide to the glued-plywood lapstrake construction I chose over traditional methods detailed in the Stevens book. I had a handy source of
Product Reviews
Spyderco’s Salt Knives
...tab just below the belt clip. Its marlinspike is held in the open position by a spring-loaded ceramic ball. It should
Boat Profile
Compass Skiff
A lightweight, nimble, outboard skiff
...It will get on plane with a 6-hp outboard; it’s a lot of fun.” Powered by a 3.5- to 6-hp outboard, the
Technique
Stropping
Leather and compound for sharper tools
...these abrasives
Adventures
A Man’s Best Friend
No, it's not the dog
...was loo
Adventures
A River Row
Oregon’s Willamette River
...and brush, turning them into small meadows. Thick brush and prickly blackberry brambles covered the island, and we wandered around with a machete, loo
Boat Profile
Parker Dinghy
A shapely mid-century workboat
...the 1/2″-thick frames wouldn’t provide enough depth
Boat Profile
Skylark
A beautiful and practical daysailer
...need be, would be
Product Reviews
Skwoosh Seat Pads
A Seat-of-the-Pants Assessment
...equal measure of