Boat Profile
Rescue Minor
From military rescue vessel to family electric launch
...this key issue. Then they laid out the remaining seating around the console, ma
News and Curiosities
Canadian Winner of World’s Best Teacher Promotes Kayaking With $1M Prize
...life and her aim is to have an impact on reversing the high suicide rates found in her school district. Below are two videos, one is about the student kaya
News and Curiosities
Wes Modes, Hazel the Dog, and Shanty Boat Living
...to create a multi-perspective and multi-path take on historical narrative, and to challenge assumptions about the importance of the
Technique
All-Terrain Carts
A home-built go-anywhere cart
...get everything to the water and back in single trips. The one I built in 2017 used a fender alone, and the two I built this year each
Adventures
Investing in Memories
Canoe camping in northern Maine
...camouflage
Boat Profile
Biscayne Bay 14
Genius on a small scale
...its heritage, performance, low cost, and ease of transport. Another plus is the optional use of modern
Boat Profile
Maine Coast Peapod
Joel White’s classic
...teak sole to keep feet off the plan
Boat Profile
Good Little Skiff
Pete Culler's perfect boat
...include measured drawings and construction details. Is there a boat you’d like to know more about? Have you built one that you think other Small Boats Magazine readers would enjoy? Please email us!
Boat Profile
Ellen 12
Pretty in plywood
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Technique
Coloring Cordage
Dying synthetic rope for a natural look
...stain. When I began loo
Product Reviews
Maptattoo
A glare-free GPS for small boats
...in subfreezing temperatures, sailing on an iceboat, and then rowing the dory on longer trips the next spring. Maptattoo is built in the U.S. and
Boat Profile
microBootlegger
A decked canoe with a Roaring Twenties flair
...a bit with trac
Technique
Outfitting for Safety Part 1: Introduction & Minimum Legal Requirements
Part of common sense is good preparation
...use, where rescue may be slow in
Adventures
A Faering on the Inside Passage, Part 2
Alaska
...After a 15-mile row to the north end of Mitkof, we took a day off in Petersburg before rowing north to Farragut Bay. We’d rowed 25 miles to get there and fought against a strong flood tide
Adventures
Solace of the South Salish
A sojourn by sail and oar
...Tern, to Arcadia, a
Boat Profile
The Sailing Skiff 15
A simple, striking, affordable boat
...trimmed, JOY accelerated in the brisk fashion that befits a light (170 lbs) skiff. She is propelled by a Chesapeake-style leg-o’-mutton rig…simple,
Adventures
The Heart of a Cruiser
One man's journey from long-distance rowing to shorter motor-sailing cruises
...water, pulling with extended arms, then
Technique
Square Rigs for Small Boats
An update for an ancient rig
I’ve long been fascinated by the ancient square rig. It has been widely acclaimed
Product Reviews
Bernzomatic’s TS 8000
Serious heat made simple
Just last year I was hoping to write an article very much like Mark Kaufman’s on ma
Boat Profile
Diablo
A fast and stable outboard-powered skiff
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Fitting Out Guide
Varnishing Basics
A Guide to the Instructions on the Can
...smooth and scratch
Boat Profile
The No Mans Land Boat
A challenge with great potential
...her own and then some against other displacement hulls. I think that has everything to do with her hull shape and her ability to carry a large rig. In tac
Boat Profile
Solo Carry
A skin-on-frame double-paddle canoe
...I used a foam pad as a seat; it was
Boat Profile
Lumber Yard Skiff
The Model T of boats
Walter Baron, of Old Wharf Dory Co., designed the Lumber Yard Skiff (LYS) with
Boat Profile
The Boothbay Harbor One-Design
A fast and wholesome daysailer-racer
...flotation chambers in the bow and stern will keep the boat from sin