Boat Profile
A sprightly cat-yawl for daysailing or camp-cruising
...unstayed masts, slide the boomkin and rudder into place, hoist sail, and you’ll be on the move within 15 minutes. The sails are standing lugs, a rig which has proved itself over centuries in wor
Adventures
Memories of boyhood
...bar
Adventures
A great all-around performer from Lowell’s Boat Shop
...word “sail” in its vocabulary. All boats are
Technique
Rinsing at the ramp
...
Boat Profile
A family of sharpies
...even earlier. Wor
News and Curiosities
Joe Youcha, the dynamo behind the
News and Curiosities
...he co-founded the Maine Island Trail and created the Georges Highland Path, a 40-mile hi
From The Editor
...learned to accept wor
Product Reviews
Cultivating calluses
...their hands. These gloves are well designed and constructed to protect hands not yet toughened up
Boat Profile
A 17' daysailer from N. G. Herreshoff
...easy to singlehand, with the mainsheet led through a turning block on the top of the centerboard trunk and the jibsheets within easy reach of the helm. The seating is
Boat Profile
A kit-built kayak with range and versatility
...plans and cut by hand, the puzzle joints seen here are not quite as tight as would be found in the machine-cut kit pieces. The
Reader Built Boats
Time and money well spent
...holes left behind would sink the boat. The sides were also
Product Reviews
Cutting and fusing synthetics
...pocket lighter to sear the ends of the various
Product Reviews
A breathable rain jacket
...secured with a hook when wearing the jacket as a windbreaker. A noteworthy side benefit to the Torrentshell is Patagonia’s
Boat Profile
Paul Gartside's Design No. 130
...I bought mahogany
Reader Built Boats
Staying afloat
...plywood—except
Reader Built Boats
Building canoes to give away
...waterways around New York and the Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario. But when John and his wife could no longer easily carry the Skowhegan, they passed it on to a couple with young children. John began the
Adventures
The Trent-Severn Waterway under solar power
...and rain (mostly), but the four solar panels it carries would also generate all of the power I’d need
Adventures
Soloing along a Texan barrier island
...the 200-yard-long paved par
Boat Profile
A camp-cruiser from Bill Garden
...her water-tight storage
Adventures
Ontario's Lake of the Woods
...hour was hardly ideal. There was plenty of daylight left, though, and an almost infinite array of options
Adventures
A Spring Solo Cruise in a Garvey Box
...90′-wide slough was nonexistent. I dropped anchor to rest, read, and if need be, nap. Later that afternoon, I woke up groggy yet anxious about deciding where to proceed next. Up-slough would have been easy and
Adventures
Sailing the estuarine lakes of Louisiana
...along what was once the riverbank, a group of four pilings held up a galvanized ladder to the light mar
Technique
Snap-on oar sleeves for rowing into a headwind
...at the oar collars rather than having to change the oars. Having recently switched from leather to the adjustable plastic sleeves from Seadog—which I find present considerably less friction in the oarlock, ma
Product Reviews
Exped's versatile shelter garment
...the temperature inside the bag rose nearly 8 degrees in about 15 minutes. https:/