Boating_Sailing
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PLAN STUDY: Annabelle Skiff
Standing around after boating on the local pond, I suggested to my friend, the remarkable Paul Helbert, that I thought he would be better served by yet another boat—specifically, the “10' Rowing and Sailing Dinghy” designed by Howard Chapelle. I would modify Chapelle’s hull for skin-on-frame construction, and Paul would build the prototype. Paul could, for a minimal investment in both time and money, have a sailboat that would be lightweight enough to car-top, yet still had room for a passenger. More importantly, the boat promised jaunty performance as well.
4 min |
July - August 2020
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Future Physics of the Birdwing Mast
An inventor’s perspective
7 min |
July - August 2020
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Bike Sailing
Building a small, bike-trailerable boat for big water
9 min |
July - August 2020
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Preparing a 22-footer for Ocean Crossing
We bought this boat in 1980 as a deluxe model built by Hurley Marine in 1970.
4 min |
May - June 2020
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SPOT, SPOT X, inReach, or PLB: Which One?
I like to row, and I even learned how to use a yuloh to move my Potter.
10+ min |
May - June 2020
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SMALL BOAT CRUISE: Superior's NMCA
From the vantage of my home in Bayfield, Wisconsin I see the first leg of many small-boat cruises to the Apostle Islands.
9 min |
May - June 2020
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Tent for Coastal Marsh Sleeper
Karen wants us to sail Clam Girl from Cedar Key up or down coast, lodging to lodging. Roger Barnes suggested in his thorough 2014 book, The Dinghy Cruising Companion, “A civilized solution is to sail between small harbour towns and check into a local hotel each night.”
3 min |
May - June 2020
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READER BOAT: The Crazy Boat
Sometimes, great imaginative leaps in mankind’s development never quite take off.
6 min |
May - June 2020
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Capt'n Pauley
Normally, I talk about hard items like fiberglass, wood, steel or aluminum. Today, I’m offon another tangent—marine fabrics.
6 min |
May - June 2020
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For Comfort and Convenience
These are some modifications made to my SCAMP Frisky, to make sailing her more enjoyable.
4 min |
May - June 2020
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All the boats in the world by John C.Harris
There’s a formula for a successful proa.
3 min |
May - June 2020
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Bahamian Beachcruising
Chartering a Sea Pearl 21 in the Exumas
10+ min |
May - June 2020
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A New Companionway Door
When I bought my 30-year old West Wight Potter, Blue Knot, it needed a few repairs and replacement parts.
10 min |
May - June 2020
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Small-Boat Gear
DUCKWORKS BOAT PLANS
1 min |
March - April 2020
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Wood + Carbon Fiber
Are you having trouble getting good wood for your boat projects? You are not alone.
4 min |
March - April 2020
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THE PORTAGE
And Other Notes from Doubling the Salish 100
9 min |
March - April 2020
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SMALL BOAT CRUISE: Isolated Australian Coast
On the opposite side of north Australia from the Great Barrier Reef is a much less-known reef, hugging a rarely visited desert coast, offering soul-feeding beauty that is only amplified by the art of small-boat journeying.
9 min |
March - April 2020
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Seascape The Webb Chiles Interview
We caught up with famed sailor and author Webb Chiles just after he’d finished his sixth circumnavigation at age 77.
10+ min |
March - April 2020
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READER BOAT: AMF Sunbird, Lusty Slogger
On May 1, 2009, while riding my beloved Triumph Bonneville motorcycle on Interstate 40 in Asheville NC, I was struck from behind by a tractor-trailer rig.
6 min |
March - April 2020
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On The Beach at Cedar Key
The annual gathering of small craft happens each year on the first weekend in May. It is perfectly located on the tip of a peninsula tucked up in the panhandle of the Gulf of Mexico.
10 min |
March - April 2020
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PLAN STUDY: Glen-L 14
Here is a sprightly sloop for sporty sailing the whole family will enjoy.
2 min |
March - April 2020
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My Experiment in Retractable Electric Propulsion
Electric outboard motors, the wave of the future, are a great way to propel small watercraft, since they offer several advantages over standard gasoline-powered outboards.
5 min |
March - April 2020
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CUSTOM GOAT ISLAND SKIFF
It turns out that I enjoy building and learning about boats even more than I enjoy owning them.
5 min |
March - April 2020
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Keeping Up With Your Old Outboard
When the wind doesn’t blow—which is all too common on the Chesapeake Bay where I sail—we need some way to move our boats.
10+ min |
January - February 2020
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The One That Got Away
That Boat You Wish You Still Had
9 min |
January - February 2020
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SMALL BOAT CRUISE: Key Lime Sailing Club
Some destination-sailing is often in the mix when it comes to coping with northern winters as a sailor.
5 min |
January - February 2020
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READER BOAT: Quinque
Many articles have been written on boat restoration.
6 min |
January - February 2020
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PURE AND SIMPLE-THE MICHAEL STORER INTERVIEW
Small-boat designer Michael Storer has a gift for turning the simplest of shapes into easily-built boats that somehow manage to exude elegance.
10+ min |
January - February 2020
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PLAN STUDY: Crow
I see nothing around me. Georgian Bay, slow to warm this season, is blanketed in thick fog. It is cold and damp in the exposed cockpit, but I’m sailing from inside the warm cabin of my 15'-8" camp-cruiser design, Crow, comfortable in a T-shirt.
6 min |
January - February 2020
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Changing Times
As a kid, I was drawn to the idea that wa-ter was not a barrier, but an enchanted pathway if you had the right boat for the voyage.
5 min |