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<span class="excerpt_part">BEATRICE is a modified Saint-Pierre dory&mdash;a type once <strong>com</strong>mon on the waters of Canada&rsquo;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 respo<strong>nse</strong> to a French government requirement for cheap, durable, and safe fishing craft for local fishermen. Taking the traditional rowing...</span>

<span class="excerpt_part">...boat could be built. They wanted a design that could fit inside a 24&prime;-long, two-car garage. The 23&prime; 6&Prime; Tremolino &ldquo;just fit&rdquo; when set at a diagonal. Photo by Karen Wales Building BLUE MOON was a <strong>com</strong>munity effort. Tom Welk (left) joined family members and others to help owner Lew Enns (right) with construction. Lew&rsquo;s son, Greg, designed a logo...</span>

<span class="excerpt_part">...resin&ndash;impregnated fiberglass cloth fairly early. The big breakthroughs came when they changed to longitudinal framing (as practiced by veteran Homer builder George Hamm), and <strong>com</strong>bined it with then-new stitch-and-glue construction. Tolman&rsquo;s overall system&mdash;specifically: a few sturdy stringers and a minimum of athwartship structure; stitched-and-glued plywood panels; epoxy saturation and fiberglass sheathing&mdash;enabled Tolman and Griswold to produce durable skiffs <strong>com</strong>petitively. Equally...</span>

<span class="excerpt_part">...speedboats&mdash;without their mechanical <strong>com</strong>plications and great expe<strong>nse.</strong> Designed and built by Kenny Bassett, Onion River Boat Works, RASCAL offers more bang for the buck than just about any other runabout a father and son could build over several hundred hours of nights and weekends. They will build her of plywood&mdash;4mm for the topsides and decks, 5mm for the bottom&mdash;ripped into...</span>

<span class="excerpt_part">...only from Hendel and Burgess, but also from Charles Hodgdon of East Boothbay&rsquo;s Hodgdon Bros. Yard, and from L. Francis Herreshoff. Hendel introduced a boat called LOON late in the 1937 season, and was then asked to work with the Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club, and particularly with its selection <strong>com</strong>mittee, in refining LOON&rsquo;s plans to become a one-design class that...</span>

<span class="excerpt_part">...widely as possible for strength. Using multiple pieces, Simmons says, all but eliminates any cross-grain. The Christmas Wherry&rsquo;s frames are <strong>com</strong>posed of two 5&frasl;8&Prime;-thick layers of cedar epoxied together to make the 11&frasl;4&Prime; sided frame. That might mean three pieces on the forward side and two on the after side, for example, so that the butts are widely separated and...</span>

<span class="excerpt_part">...by Ted Moores (WoodenBoat Publications, 1999), details the construction of a strip-planked sea kayak. The Endeavour 17 is the example used in the construction sequence, but several sister designs are also profiled in the book. When it <strong>com</strong>es time to plank the boat, a first-time builder might find it best to purchase already-milled strips from one of several <strong>com</strong>panies that...</span>

<span class="excerpt_part">...has designed a cedar-cored, fiberglass-and-epoxy-sheathed centerboard. Photos by Bryan Gagner Two berths that run up under the foredeck provide <strong>com</strong>fortable refuge for short-term cruisers. The centerboard trunk, made as unobtrusive as can be, doubles as a <strong>com</strong>panionway step or a footrest. KATIE&rsquo;s accommodations are minimal to be sure, but she&rsquo;s set up with all the short-cruise essentials: Two berths run...</span>

<span class="excerpt_part">...my wife as well as me over the waters of Maine&rsquo;s Muscongus Bay, allowing us to explore the mouth of a small creek, run up on the beach for a picnic, or slide gracefully down the faces of ocean swells <strong>com</strong>ing in past Monhegan. But don&rsquo;t be fooled: this idyll <strong>com</strong>es at a price. The BB14s were designed for the...</span>

<span class="excerpt_part">...with. Stepping into the kayak, I was surprised at how much flex there was in the wooden hull despite its being sheathed in epoxy and &rsquo;glass&mdash;perhaps it&rsquo;s because of that missing 1&frasl;16&Prime; in the thickness of the strips. Turning <strong>com</strong>es from a <strong>com</strong>bination of leaning and utilizing the paddle to get a longer lever arm. The paddle&mdash;a work of art...</span>

<span class="excerpt_part">...moxie&mdash;to pull off what turned out to be a five-year project. He and I are in agreement that boatbuilding skills are but half of the personal resources needed to <strong>com</strong>plete a project of this scope. The remaining portion is <strong>com</strong>posed of some <strong>com</strong>bination of patience and resourcefulness. In other words, managing the project is as important as carpentry skill. This...</span>

<span class="excerpt_part">...become the first <strong>com</strong>mercial builder of this type of canoe in Maine&mdash;and perhaps the world. E.M. White followed Morris. All three <strong>com</strong>panies predated the arrival of the Indian Old Town Canoe <strong>Com</strong>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...</span>