Boat Profile
Laughing Gull
A working sharpie redesigned for exciting sailing
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Adventures, Caledonia Yawl,
Swan’s Island
A Maine Coast Circumnavigation
...needed to navigate over the shoal, we were sorely lac
Boat Profile
Spira’s Hudson Skiff
An easy-to-build outboard skiff
...can be built by amateur builders with basic woodwor
Adventures
The Åland Islands
Sailing Finland's labyrinthine archipelago
...the Roskilde Vi
Boat Profile
Newfound Wherry
A cedar-stripped rowboat updated for sail and oar
...covered by cedar strips and sheathed in fiberglass. A piece of 2″-thick hardwood is epoxied into the hull on the centerline to serve as a maststep that will set the mast at a 5-degree rake. Wor
Adventures
The Erie Canal by Canoe
A solo voyage along the 19th-century commercial waterway
...to keep me
Boat Profile
Tenderly Dinghy
An able boat to row, tow, motor, and sail
...didn’t draw inspiration from any one particular lapstrake design, the general English clinker day boat aesthetic is apparent. He was loo
From The Editor
A Magnificent Clutter
...from raw fleeces from an Oregon flock of Herdwick sheep, a breed native to northwest England, the ancestors of which may have been brought by Norse settlers in the 12th century. Torolf applies hot bedding
Technique
Rope Fenders
A Norwegian Tradition
In the southeast part of Norway lies the beautiful little village of Stavern. Once a thriving
Boat Profile
Glen-L Zip
A twin-cockpit runabout
...dress the plywood up with covering boards and deck plan
From The Editor
Phil Thiel’s Workshop
...European family crest but with a broader set of relationships. Designs in circles are a
Reader Built Boats
Alf’s Trap Skiff
60 years in the works
...plans
Technique
DIY Gantry Cranes
For lifting and rolling a heavy hull
...so many people; it goes fas
Boat Profile
Weekender
A Stevenson project
...the two
Boat Profile
Grumman’s 17′ Double-Ender
An enduring and durable classic
...rolled plates also serve as covers
Boat Profile
The Escargot Canal Cruiser
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From The Editor
Bark
Beautiful materials from windfalls
...scraps of bark and a few roots, I made my first basket before the symposium ended. Root lashings are integral to ma
Reader Built Boats
WAYLO-WAYLO
A peapod built by family and friends
...him to
Technique
Dehydrating for Cruising Cuisine
Home-prepared foods that travel well and taste great
Before I took to small-boat cruising in 1980, I did a lot of backpac
Boat Profile
The Candlefish 13
Three Men in a Boat (to say Nothing of the Moose)
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Product Reviews
Ugo
A different kind of waterproof phone case
...the Tizip zipper creates a waterproof seal that the manufacturer had
Feather 14
A lifetime of inspiration
...“I used this shape but flattened it just a bit,”
Boat Profile
ELF
A small cruiser for going just about anywhere
...round just one more point of land, to find just one more
Designs, Canoes & Kayaks,
15′ Sea Kayak, Tursiops
Tursiops has one of the prettiest sheet-plywood hulls we've seen.
Drawn by a professional designer
Boat Profile
Duckling
A sliding-seat skiff
...amidships supports a fixed thwart and, paired with a bulkhead at the