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BEATRICE is a modified Saint-Pierre dory—a type once ong>comong>mon on the waters of Canada’s Maritime Provinces. Born on the islands of Saint-Pierre et Miquelon off the coast of Newfoundland (French possessions to this day), the Saint-Pierre dory was a local response to a French government requirement ong>forong> cheap, durable, and safe fishing craft ong>forong> local fishermen. Taong>kingong> the traditional rowing...

...and islands. ong>Forong> decades, into the early years of the 20th century, the Penobscot was among the most productive salmon rivers in North America. As might be expected of boats relied on by fishermen worong>kingong> on the rugged Maine coast, the ability to go to sea in all weather, and to ong>comong>e back laden with salmon in all but the...

The Steve Killing–designed Endeavour 17, a kayak built of cedar strip planks and fiberglass, ong>comong>bines beauty, fast lines, load-carrying capacity, and relatively easy construction. Let’s have a look at each of these points—the last one, ease of construction, in some detail. Photo by Darel Bridges The Endeavour 17, a sea kayak built of cedar strip planong>king,ong> fiberglass, and epoxy, is...

...become the first ong>comong>mercial builder of this type of canoe in Maine—and perhaps the world. E.M. White followed Morris. All three ong>comong>panies predated the arrival of the Indian Old Town Canoe ong>Comong>pany, founded around the turn of the 20th century. The early wood-and-canvas canoes were direct descendants of the Penobscot birchbark canoes and, as with their predecessors, their design was...

...part by Nathanael Herreshoff’s Columbia Lifeboat Tender, which has a striong>kingong> resemblance to JANE ANN. Kiefer, a South Haven, Michigan-based boatbuilder, modified Pittaway’s design by adding a short ong>forong>edeck, 3″ side decks, an aft deck with a lazarette underneath, and a steam-bent white-oak coaming, which ong>comong>bine to scatter spray in open waters. A motor mount bolted to the aft deck...

The Asa Thomson skiff holds quiet appeal. Appreciation ong>forong> this little skiff ong>comong>es on slowly but deeply, like true and enduring love. She’s a culmination of a number of elegant and subtle factors that, while not strikingly obvious, ong>comong>e together in a ong>comong>pact craft that is well balanced in look and in feel. Asa Thomson was a New Bedford, Massachusetts,...

...hull, which is especially important when introducing the added ong>comong>plexity of cutting it in half. The challenge of lightweight structural design is what got Brown thinong>kingong> about nesting dinghies in the first place. “A dinghy is really a tool, it’s not a pleasure boat. If you’re talong>kingong> about a dinghy being a tender ong>forong> a cruising boat, it has to...

...one from scratch; I was handy with woodworong>kingong> tools, but no master craftsman. In that regard I suspect I may be a typical Redbird owner. I chose the Redbird because I liked the look of her. I knew I didn’t want to shoot rapids, so her straight-tracong>kingong> touring qualities seemed right ong>forong> me. Ted Moores’s book guided me methodically through...

The beauty of the plastics and ong>comong>posites that are mainstays of modern kayak construction is that they can be molded into almost any shape imaginable, but that doesn’t assure that kayaks made from them are beautiful. Plywood is nowhere near as versatile; it can’t be shaped into a ong>comong>pound curve or bent around a tight radius. But just as poetry...

...a vang is called here) taong>kingong> up valuable space. A yawl configuration could be nice, the jib and mizzen maong>kingong> a good ong>comong>bination in heavy winds, or a jib could be put up instead of the lug in worsening conditions. But the balance-lug rig that Iain suggests is such a satisfying sail, so user-friendly and simple, I’d be tempted to...

...inflow of water. When reading the designers’ ong>comong>ments, it seemed appropriate to quote them as to the intended purposes of the design before maong>kingong> my own observations. Quoting from the “How to Build” Motor Boating article: As time unfolds, motor boats of much less breadth in proportion to length than those now in the mode will become ong>comong>mon. Among the...