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The Shaw & Tenney Whitehall
A classic, reinterpreted
This is a gentleman’s Whitehall.” That’s how Steve Holt describes the Shaw & Tenney Whitehall, a 17′ 9″ recreational rowboat based on a legendary 19th-century wor
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Acorn 17
Iain Oughtred’s Whitehall
...same beam it’s safe to say 8′ will work. The Acorn 17 is
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The Cosine Wherry
A strip-built pulling boat
...with John Hartsock, Bob Pickett, and Erica Pickett. The Picketts were highly regarded proprietors of a marine-lumber
From The Editor
Accidental
...by four straps as part of the
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Lowell’s Amesbury Skiff
Building by
...building boats on the site in 1793. By the time Simeon’s progeny had more or less
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The E.M. White Guide Canoe
A classic design from the 19th century
...old Grumman
Adventures
A Faering for New Zealand
The Craft of Ulf Mikalsen
...county that straddles the Arctic Circle, to produce a film about how Norwegians, considered some of the happiest people on Earth, remain so even when the sun does not shine
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Carolinian Carolina Dory
An outboard skiff from Spira
...with
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Beach Pea
Tender, daysailer, trainer
...upside-down in a garden
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FOX
A double-paddle canoe
...pounds of her), took much of his waterborne pleasure in double-paddle canoes of his own design.
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The Marsh Cat
Everything from gunkholing to open-water sailing
...broad beam makes the cockpit sole wide enough to sleep two flan
From The Editor
Risk-Taker?
Finding value in adversity
...was cruising LUNA, I kept myself not just safe but happy by not ta
Adventures
An Uphill Battle
Northern Forest Canoe Trail, the wrong way
...to earn my stripes. I paddled on a
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D-18 Myst
A camp-cruiser with good looks
...
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A Lapstrake Livery Boat
A Whitehall for quick construction
...the lake whenever I’ve rowed John’s boat, but there’s enough
Reader Built Boats
A Dragonfly Rowing Shell
Speed with a dash of stability
...task. Applying the strips to the molds was also slow, painsta
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Built by the Book
David Parker's Paper Canoe
...stiffness, just as they do in ordinary canoes. The Waters
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A Fringe of the Wild
Wisconsin's Turtle-Flambeau Flowage
...14,000 acres of water and nearly 200 undeveloped islands—and, almost unbelievably, dozens of
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FLOW 19
A fast and sporty trailer-sailer
...of Baltimore, Maryland. The Flow 19 is a trailerable sport cruiser designed
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Super Sailfish
A wild and wet ride
...MK II as factory-built boats, and they sold precision-cut knockdown kits
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The Weekend Dinghy
High pleasure per pound
...or harbor where his young family can deploy a fleet of kayaks and sailing dinghies. Tiny sailboats offer ridiculous fun in proportion to their cost.
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Runabout 14
A plywood speedster from Bateau.com
...the handling, even at low speeds, ma
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GRACE’S TENDER
Easy to love, easier to build
...frames seem to flex until the bottom and plan
Technique
Quick-Release Tension Knots
Small-Boat Rigging on a Shoestring
...the tension as the knot is being
Technique
Outfitting for Safety Part 3: Emergencies & Flotation
...of the boat. Someone who has gone overboard may need help getting back aboard. This is especially true if that person is you and you are sailing alone. In very small boats with low