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Features: The Perfect Pram • ETAP 21i Review • The Everglades Challenge • The Skate 15 • Paddling Big Bend • Hunter 23 • Custom Motor Mount • Open Boat Sea of Cortez • Leeboards and Centerboards • And much more!

Small Boat Cruise: Big Bend, Texas

I belong to a group of curmudgeons that goes on paddling and sailing adventures. All are Everglades Challenge veterans and two have completed the Around-Florida Ultimate Challenge. Almost all are retired or semi-retired. There is constant e-mail chatter. After our French River, Ontario adventure , talk began of finding totally dark nights since the Everglades is now bordered on the east with the glow of Miami. I remembered previous trips to Big Bend National Park, and the plan began to unfold, including a new moon for greatest effect.

8 mins

Reader Boat: Hunter 23, God's Gift

This is a story of a Hunter 23 and friendship. This 1986 beauty aptly named God’s Giftwas leftto us by our dear friends Steve and Marcia after Steve’s untimely passing. We had sailed with them over the past 17 years on this boat, and in fact wrote about her twice before in these pages: issues #49—Jan/ Feb 2008—Places:Mooselookmeguntic Lake, Maine and #56—Mar/Apr 2009 – Places: Lake Cupsuptic.

4 mins

In The Shadows Of Cerralvo: West Side

I’m relieved to leave the long remote shadows of the east flank of Isla Cerralvo. Pointed south, I feel we’ve passed a milestone; we’re headed in, not out. Instead of staring into the empty horizon of the Sea of Cortez, crouched beneath the ominous eastern escarpment looming overhead, I’m now skipping alongside a well-traveled shipping channel, toward a landscape crisscrossed with paved roads leading to bustling cities, and practically in sight of the shores of popular gringo enclaves with all the trappings of wealth and modern life.

10+ mins

A Race To Remember

The 2017 Everglades Challenge.

10+ mins

Emily Ruth's Motor Mount

This is something that I made for my Somes Sound which is a derivation of the famous H-12 1/2. My boat was designed by John Brooks (Brooks Boat Designs) and built by myself in my shop on Bainbridge Island. Emily Ruth was launched in July of 2015.

3 mins

A Strange Coda

The man was sunbaked, with reddish, slightly over-cooked skin. I squinted at him there on the rickety dock, clad in a bandana, shorts, and a ratty T-shirt. Behind him, perched on pilings, stood a 1900s-era wooden building with a faded sign reading “Back Bay Marina & Resort.”

4 mins

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Small boats, big adventure! The only magazine focused on small and trailerable sailboats, cruising, and adventure. Each issue features places to sail, how-to and modification articles, a plan study for the boat builder, and a feature-length review of a production sailboat.