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Blending seakeeping ability with speed
...them the look of canoe frames, and the planks were fastened with clench nails, just as canoe planks are. The steam-bent frames in the new construction have a squarer cross section and provide sufficient thickness
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An outboard cruiser with a lobsterboat look
In the late fall of 2018, I started doing what most folks in Maine do during the cold weather after our boats are put away: thin
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A trailerable keelboat for camp cruising
...or gripped with the tiller. Michel Maartens Heeling in a good sailing breeze, the Scaffie shows its windward bilge keel. The leeward bilge keel is providing lateral resistance to supplement that of the full-length keel. A full keel, along with twin 36″-long bilge keels, leaves the interior of the Scaffie uncluttered by a centerboard trunk
Adventures
Rowing the canals and rivers of France
...surreal moment when we were out in the sea loo
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A Selway Fisher sharpie
...had grown to hate dealing with trailers and stayed masts, and wanted something I could transport on top of the car.
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A towing tender for two adults and their gear
...an easy project
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An amateur-friendly update of a Herreshoff classic
...well as opportunities to learn new skills. Spiling strakes, cutting gains, planing rolling bevels, laminating inner and outer stems, building spars, and pouring a lead keel, all may be unfamiliar tasks to many but provide newfound pride when
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The “smallest camp-cruising sailboat” from Duckworks
...the daggerboard trunk so it can be used as a place to sleep although the manual cautions that it is “not a luxurious berth.” Its width is a
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The pinnacle of wilderness canoes
...special
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A Tolman Alaskan Skiff for cruising
...choppy water, which is to be expected with such a light boat. The hull has a 12-degree deadrise at the transom, increasing toward the bow, which gives it a
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A lapstrake pulling boat
...thwart can serve as a stretcher when the boat is rowed from the
Reader Built Boats
Reimagining the Duck Trap Launch
...trips more
Reader Built Boats
When the work is its own reward
...his back yard under a 10′ by 20′ canopy, “ma
Technique
Replacing fabric with plywood
... Note the large, unobstructed bow storage
Catalog dreaming
...and often require help from a friend or online videos. While the kit pieces were so precisely cut that they fit exactly and the instructions were clear and
Reader Built Boats
From Skene's Elements of Yacht Design
...using a drawknife or spokeshave.” Dave found Rich Shew’s article on ma
Technique
An important element of boat trim
...windward to balance the boat in a breeze. You can stand when loo
Reader Built Boats
A classic Canadian frontier canoe
...canoe at a recent wooden boat festival, it attracted a lot of attention and
Product Reviews
Putting plants into the mix
...I discovered EcoPoxy about four years ago, the least appealing aspect of my work was the toxicity and odor of the petrochemical epoxy I’d been using. EcoPoxy has replaced some of the normal petroleum-based
Reader Built Boats
A canoe to live for
...worked together building the strongback, setting up the
Product Reviews
A dry bag that keeps its cool
SBM photographs The IceMule cooler is a dry bag within a dry bag with insulation in between the two. Meat and cold drinks are two
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An electric micro-boat
...cargo, so you’ll be better off stic
From The Editor
...British Columbia, but I was drawn back to boatbuilding. I erected another temporary shed in my parents’ back yard and built a gunning dory
From The Editor
...required no case but was also out of the way of cargo placed in the hold or on deck. The advantages of the single were so great, particularly in scows carrying deckloads, that the centerboard never replaced it before the end of sail.” At a local store selling salvaged construction
Reader Built Boats
Harbor Master Skiffs
...beam of 4’. They’re flat-bottomed rowing boats meant