Designs, Tenders,
9′ 6″ Martha’s Tender
An easy-towing, easy-rowing tender featuring simple plywood construction and good capacity.
...WB Nos. 45, 46, and 47, provides very
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The Chebacco Boats
A trio of options
...are very much in evidence, her sheer- strake plumb, like her ends. I find her, too, very beautiful, but in a different way than her cold-molded sister: where one is smooth and sensuous curves, the other is cutaways and angled flats. Perhaps an acquired taste, but stri
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Wee Lassie
A classic in skin-on-frame
...to make a sturdy cross beam at the top of the frame. Cut with a curve in the middle at about 20 degrees, it has a
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FAIREHOPE
A 21' hard-chined adventurer by Nelson Zimmer
...set of lodging and hanging knees, which I laminated from mahogany. FAIREHOPE is planked with 7⁄8″-thick juniper, with a 1-3⁄8″-thick mahogany sheerstrake
From The Editor
I’ve got a not-so-peaceful, uneasy feelin’
...I turned around and headed home. The feeling that led to me to turn tail was not new to me; I had just learned to give it the attention it deserved. Many years ago, I had set out to go kaya
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Beer Beach Boat
A workboat for pleasure
...ROSE’s seakeeping qualities, especially when punching her way through the waves in a more exposed stretch of water. Bryn is very much loo
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John Welsford’s Sweet Pea
A Lightweight Cruiser/Racer
...Of course, no boat is
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Little Crab
Doug Hylan’s 13’ V-Bottomed Skiff for Sail and Oar
...it wouldn’t have much utility today, but I still had that hull shape in my head. One day while
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North Shore Dory
A dory design from the 1900s
...dories. There are beaded-edge floorboards in each section between the frames. Seat edges, inboard tops of each plank, and bottoms of the outboard planks are also beaded. The bottom has 3 1⁄2″-wide curved guard strips—called “shoes” on the drawings—beveled to meet the bottom edges of the garboards and running around the outboard edge of the bottom plan
Adventures
Drawn to the Islands
A voyage among the Southern Gulf Islands
...but this would be a solo trip with the
Technique
A Simple Tiller Tender
Hands-off sailing
...by securing mainsheet with a cam cleat or slippery hitch, and then I just need something to hold the tiller in place so I can grab a bite to eat, take a
Adventures
Uncertain Ground
Tide flats and sloughs
...put one last load of wood into the stove and slipped into my bed in the
Product Reviews
Quickloader Retractable Ratchet Straps
A better ratchet strap
...a trailer tire or flapping in the wind. The QL115M has a 500-lb wor
Technique
Four Practical Tips
...rollers drive the planer
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Mudder Boots
Flexible wings for a big footprint
...without having to tug the back foot
Reader Built Boats
AVANTI
On plane with a single sheet of plywood
...whether he’s skimming across Gig Harbor aboard AVANTI, wor
Technique
Gang-sawing
Quicker preparation for strip-building and laminating
Randall Davie Four blades on a single arbor increase accuracy and dramatically shorten wor
Adventures
Dallying Downeast
Meandering the Maine coast by sea kayak
...to get out to Monhegan, an island
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Saturday Night Special
More Bang for the Buck
...Texas 200. The Saturday Night Special’s cockpit is huge
From The Editor
Chagudax̂
The Aleut bentwood visors of Andrew Gronholdt
...his mother was Aleut, or Unangan, as the people of the islands refer to themselves. Andrew learned woodwor
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Caring for Tools
...threaded brass knob
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Sei
A Welsford double-ender
Technique
Maintaining Trailer Bearings
Greasing the wheel before it squeaks
...bearing grease; boat trailer bearings require marine-grade grease, which has more hydrophobic qualities than regular trailer bearing grease. Ensure that the trailer tongue is well supported, either blocked up or hitched to a car with the par
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Grayl’s Geopress Water-Treatment System
Water treatment made simple
...the outer shell nears 25 seconds. The filters include the gasket, so that critical part is regularly replaced. The Geopress is made of durable, BPA
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Meaban
A trailerable Vivier sloop
...RIDEAU was built in Tasmania by Lindsay Pender