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Boat Profile
Navigator
A beach-cruising centerboard yawl
...Navigator is a straightforward proposition. Welsford provides 11 detailed sheets of plans that include a
From The Editor
Standing Water
...The description with the video notes: “Gav and Dan go to an ocean simulator to film a wave that does not occur anywhere in nature….” That may be true of the
Adventures
The Isles of Finland
Solo cruising in a Herreshoff Coquina
...on a broad reach much more
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Goliath Mini-Tug
A fanciful cruiser with workboat roots
...While it is one of the boat’s more expensive
Boat Profile
The Annapolis Wherry
Quick to build, fast to row
...lower edge of each plank. Aren’t
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The Crawford Melonseed Skiff
From a 19th-century gunning skiff to a classic sailer in fiberglass
...so it’s an easy pull even
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Surf Crabskiff
A Bolger Instant Boat
...carry much way when tac
Adventures
The Texas Coastal Bend
An escape to barrier islands
...Aransas filled the horizon and spilled their glow into the night sky, mas
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Chester Yawl
A shapely pulling boat
...positioned when I do sit down. I like the flexibility of adjustable seats
Adventures
The Race to Alaska, Almost
Trailing the fleet, keeping up with the leaks
...control is your attitude and how you handle it.” So here we are ta
Adventures
Umbagog Lake
Paddling in the Great North Woods of New Hampshire and Maine
...better landing spot
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Fliptail 7
Wooden Widget's compact folding dinghy
...to set the sail to take care of itself and
Adventures
Handing Over the Helm
A father and son take to the South Salish Sea
...on the side benches and prepared to nosh. “This,” I said, bas
Reader Built Boats
Thrown for a Curve
A second step, a leap forward
...a first step into the boatbuilding arts. “It was,” writes Joe, “like ma
Adventures
Fifteen Years of the Small Reach Regatta
A retrospective
...among several
Product Reviews
Trangia Stove
A multi-fuel camp stove
...to do more coo
Free Small Boats Hat
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The Mower Dory
Sailing again after a century in hiding
...naval architect, and his brother Bill, a boatbuilder. The building was mostly empty but there were two steamboxes and a wood-fired stove
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Beetle 14
Sequel to a legend
...but instead passes
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Black Skimmer
A Phil Bolger sharpie
...preliminary boat design created to meet the specific requests of an individual reader. The images often were stri
Designs, Canoes & Kayaks,
17′ 1″ B. N. Morris Canoe
A general use wood-and-canvas canoe.
...height permits more powerful strokes. And their far
Boat Profile
Pooduck Skiff
An able dinghy by Joel White
...outfitting the interior, and building the sailing rig—can be used as a guide
Reader Built Boats
SEA BESTIA
A race boat built for a holiday challenge
...wide enough to provide good
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Midget Flyer
A smart little runabout from 1938 designed by Bruce N. Crandall
Mark Kaufman—a high-school woodwor