From The Editor
Chilling memories
Here in Seattle, we ended July with six consecutive days of 90-plus degree heat—a new record. That is by no means as hot as other parts of the world, but it has been a sobering event here. On the first day of the heat wave, I had gone kaya
Reader Built Boats
A canoe for each man, woman, and child
...the build. Hot Wheels cars and the movie series How to Train Your Dragon are his two favorite things, so Frank came up with a way to
Boat Profile
A traditional sprit-rigged sloop from Sweden's southwest coast
...can
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Adventures, Caledonia Yawl,
A family adventure under sail and oar
...us to an emerald-green pool beyond—the sinkhole mar
Boat Profile
Classic form in plywood
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Boat Profile
A canoe-building system from Cape Falcon Kayak
...in the canoe may seem more
Reader Built Boats
Building a boat and a friendship
...mas
Reader Built Boats
A rescued kit becomes a much-loved family boat
...Selway Fisher design, the 7′ 6″ Redshank, a lapstrake rowboat based on a traditional English dinghy. Photographs courtesy of Polly Robinson Stitching the strakes together would become increasingly nerve-wrac
Product Reviews
A durable non-slip coating
...that may be easier to work with, but my re
From The Editor
Relaunching the sneakbox LUNA after a prolonged storage
...ta
Adventures
Panama's sailing dugouts
...but life took another turn and we ended up in New England instead and bought TRANQUILITY, a 53-year-old 29′ fiberglass sailboat. Over the next three years we undertook a
Reader Built Boats
Sisters, science, and cedar
...a hypothesis that the solar energy that could be captured increased as the density of molecules diminished with altitude. While that might be a
Technique
Keeping trailer lights out of the water and in the line of sight
Few things will ruin a small-boat trip faster than trailer drama, and no
Boat Profile
A dory for sail, oars, and outboard
...CLC has packed a lot of features into the Southwester without ma
Reader Built Boats
Jim Conlin builds a daysailer
...other mishaps.” Walter Piescik With the jib furler housed in a well below the deck, SOME PIG’s stem and
Product Reviews
...retroreflective
Boat Profile
Classic construction
...hull, and gives great dry storage (or live bait) options. The Yankee Tender is much more than an excellent introduction to traditional boatbuilding. The
Technique
A master boatbuilder's tote, stool, and step
...other tools and support the top when it is used as a step or a stool. Joe’s totes would have had much nicer joinery than anything I could
Boat Profile
A strip-built kayak for novice boatbuilders and beginning paddlers
After seeing a strip-built kayak being paddled many years ago, I started dreaming of building one
Boat Profile
An American classic
...spends most of its time out of the water. Instead of the 3⁄8″ white cedar Chapelle cites, I used 7⁄16″ Port Orford cedar
Boat Profile
A trailerable coastal cruiser from Iain Oughtred
...of drawings
Boat Profile
A rich man's tender, a poor man's yacht?
...enough to be easily hoisted, probably in davits, onto the stern of a trawler-style cruiser. Its length was to be 11′7″ and include the option of brea
MUSTELID
Intro, Who We Are, How We Live, What we Propose
Welcome to the MUSTELID Venture. Dave and Anke are a couple of sailors in the Southeast Alaskan archipelago. They live aboard and sail self-built vessels, engine
MUSTELID
Construction
...with a small box of mostly hand-tools. We’re handy, but not masters of craft. We’re shoe-string operators and scavengers but debt