Boat Profile
The Wittholz Catboat
A classic adapted for plywood
...This boat is built
Technique
A Bridge-Crane Boat Lift
Lifting a boat up and sideways for storage
...projects
Technique
A DIY Hammock Chair
Suspended relaxation
Here’s a luxurious recliner you can take on your next camping trip. It is wonderfully supportive,
Reader Built Boats
FOPA
Building a rowboat for the family
...would build a rowboat. Steve Petty With so many molds set up on the strong back it’s easy to see the shape of the hull with the full ’midships sections running into a deep V both
Boat Profile
The Golant Ketch
A daydream turned real
...to a
Boat Profile
Clam Skiff
A Bolger-designed workboat
...power, carry a big load, and have flat footing right out to the side. Nothing about it should be hard to explain.” At 18′ long and 5′3″ wide, the skiff will carry 1,100 lbs and draw just 3″; it seemed to me that it might be a very good
Boat Profile
Centerboard Sloop #226A
A new traditional rig on a proven Gartside hull
...the bow from flowing into the cockpit. Also visible are the darker tones of the sapele rubbing strake,
Product Reviews
Boat Cover Batten Sockets
Cast-bronze fittings bring stability to cover battens
...Photographs by the authors Set up and disassembly could not be easier: the silicon-bronze socket has a 7⁄16″-diameter pin that
Reader Built Boats, Caledonia Yawl,
AUDREY/JAMES
A Caledonia Yawl
...another board would be a way to connect with him through their
Boat Profile
19′ Bartender
A seaworthy outboard
...po
Product Reviews
An RSS Lugsail
Mayfly 14 Pierce Expedition from Really Simple Sails
In 2011 I built a Mayfly 14 as designed by Jim Michalak. He recommended “that my customers sew their own sails either from
Product Reviews
Third Reef Foulies
A waterproof jacket and bibs from West Marine
...
Product Reviews
A Hitch Mount Canoe Loader
With the help of a trailer-hitch-mounted loader, you only have to lift one end at a time—safer for your boat and your back.
...offset the canoe loader from a hitch ball, so the loader can be used in conjunction with towing a trailer. The loader is made of heavy-duty
Product Reviews
DeWalt Multi-Tool
A cordless oscillating tool for cutting, grinding, and sanding
...system of early multi-tools. The assortment of attachments I bought
Boat Profile
The Friendship Catboat
A 21st-century makeover for an early-20th-century design
...make
Product Reviews
Greenfield’s Sky Winch
...yet but my number’s bound to
Reader Built Boats
PEARL, an Iain Oughtred Wee Rob
...on their truck’s canopy roof rack, but she would return with it slid in on the truck bed. Shari paddles with a petite woman who arrived at one of their outings with a new 30-lb
Product Reviews
The Matsu Drysuit
Affordable cold-water protection from Mythic Gear
...on your own or get rescued, your time is as good as up. In short order your thin
Technique
Steam-Cleaning Cured Epoxy
Cleaner clamps and faster clamping
...quickly as long as they can tolerate the moisture and the heat. The next time you’re steaming wood
Reader Built Boats
A Diminutive Fantail Launch
A kayak fisherman's fantasy
...He scouted about, without success,
Product Reviews, Whitehall Tender,
Oars with Elbows
A Forward-Facing Rowing System
...oars can be removed by pulling the hairclip cotter pins and the 3/8″-diameter pivot rods, but the rig can stay fixed to the boat
From the Editor
A Line in the Sand
The 21′ Gokstad faering I built in 1987 wasn’t a boat I could bring myself to paint or slather with boat soup that would turn black with age. The straight-grained, knot
Reader Built Boats, Shellback Dinghy,
PETIT BATEAU
A boat, boredom, a book, and a baby
...of independence and of being in
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Product Reviews
Canned Heat with the Solo Stove
Solo Stove's Titan
...the Titan model, measuring 8″ tall and 5-1/16″ in diameter, advertised as suitable