Product Reviews
StopLossBags
Eliminating air, preventing waste
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Boat Profile
Lightning Bug
Quiet power, stately pace
...boat quite easy, and the swing of the tiller doesn’t interfere with the occupants. The controls are on the port side, leaving my right hand
Boat Profile
Colorado River Dory
Fit to row the Grand Canyon
...If the load is the least bit off-center, it becomes difficult to maintain a straight course; the boat tends to spin to the weighted side. https:/
Reader Built Boats
Building a Squirt
A retired woodworking teacher builds his first boat
...Sierra Middle School in Riverside, California, teaching woodwor
Boat Profile
Firefly
Grace and ease in a quickly built hull
...a 1/4″ × 1/2″ wood spline into it. The spline
Technique
A DIY Boat Cart
Transporting boats with ease and economy
...don’t need to buy that, we can make it.” I started with what I thought would be a wor
Boat Profile
The Penguin Class
A family-friendly racing dinghy
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Boat Profile
Campion’s Apple 16
Light, fast, and well mannered
...rest of the summer researching the
Fitting Out Guide
Ten Things That Can Hurt Your Wooden Boat
Well-intentioned practices that do more harm than good
...the boat
Product Reviews
Linseed-oil Paint
Better for your boat
...paint Boiled linseed oil and linseed-oil paint were used throughout the recent restoration of the Charles W. Morgan, the 174-year-old whaleship that is the centerpiece of Mystic Seaport,
Boat Profile
Summer Breeze
The most boat from the least materials
...something of an art. I took a hint from one of Dynamite Payson’s books and sealed the plywood with Bondo polyester resin thinned with acetone. This sank right into the plywood and seems to have prevented it from chec
MUSTELID
MUSTELID – Episode 12
Icy Strait
...contours. Right angle feeds collide in sudden rip fields. Fresh water flows over saltwater, dragging across tides. Bores, rips, and whorls abound. Add winds driven by glacier cooled downdrafts from northern quarters. We’ve been learning how to sail this glorious mess over the years, one awkward passage at a time. But we slip through easy, this time. Sort of. https:/
MUSTELID
MUSTELID – Episode 13
Lynn Canal
...do blow. But we’ve been having such a great time! We hear news of a family gathering up that way, and we’re invited. It’s only 60 nautical miles distant. It’s really been unseasonably mild, right? And we know the ground. Probably sailed it a dozen times. If need be, we can duck down. So, wait… we’re gonna do what? https:/
MUSTELID
MUSTELID – Episode 14
Homeward Bound
...hop and go. Well, the
MUSTELID
MUSTELID – Episode 15
Epilogue
...notwithstanding—vessel after vessel, year after year? Dreams. Determination. Persistence. We all have dreams. Once we determine to pursue them, we are determined. If we persist, one measly step at a time, we will look back to find that we have the persistence we need. It’s nothing special. It’s within our reach, one and all.
The Morley Guide Canoe
...himself by assiduously studying the shapes of others and modifying them to suit his own taste. One learns a craft or art by first mimic
Boat Profile
Thompson Thomboy
A speedy little runabout
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Boat Profile
Spindrift 12
A performance yacht tender
...again.’” But the confidence she gained from the project soon eclipsed those feelings. “Six months later,” she says, “I was loo
Boat Profile
Oonagh
A lapstrake plywood pram for oar and sail
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Designs, Powerboats,
18′ 6″ Outboard Skiff Cruiser, Redwing
A gentle, shoal-draft, low-powered, sheet-plywood outboard cruiser.
...2 cruising Trailerable: Yes Propulsion: 5-10 hp outboard engine Speed (knots): Up to 6 BUILDING DATA Skill needed: Intermediate Lofting required: Yes * Alternative construction: None PLANS DATA No. of sheets: 4 Level of detail: Average Cost per set: $70.00 WB Plan No. 108
Product Reviews
The EasyBailer
An automatic bilge pump for small boats
...the panel was charging or not. I bought another (approximately $20) and it has been wor
Product Reviews
Kokatat’s Launch Socks
...at the top allows me to tighten them down to any size leg and keep the socks pulled up high. The Launch Socks are
Boat Profile
Gartside’s Centerboard Lugger
Old ways at work
...the same size as the 16′ Wayfarer, and she liked the idea of a lugger. While
Adventures
A Faering on the Inside Passage, Part 1
Washington and British Columbia
...on the stove. We had a short day prior to rounding Cape Caution, so we had time to dawdle. We continued wor
Boat Profile
Pathfinder Yawl
A 17' cruising yawl
...is easy. With the hull