Oz Racer RV
The RV is a simpler RECREATIONALLY oriented boat with almost the same performance as the Oz Racer.

Jim Michalak's Newsletter
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Akaroa Trip Report
You may wonder what all the fuss was about having been in worse conditions, but I was in no doubt that I was in a life threatening situation and that is what I'm recounting in the hope that it might help somebody.

St Joe to Pensacola
Anybody that likes sport fishing will like St Joe because St Joe is all about sport fishing. About 90% of the boats in the Port St Joe Marina were sport fishing boats.

Zipper
The Zipper is an 11 foot runabout based on designs of the 1950's for Class 'B' stock utility racing boats by Hal Kelly and William Jackson.

2011 Lake Pepin Messabout
This year we had plenty of boats, but no beach. Lake Pepin is a wide spot in the Mississippi River, and the river was unusually high thanks to record snowfall and a colder-than-normal winter.

April Love - Part Two
Now I've begun to build April Love. However, these gangsters came by to steal my boat. They want a ship to run jungle rum from Key Largo to Texas.

50th Anniversary Boat Build - Part One
The goal is the Texas Water Safari in June of 2012. The prize for reaching my goal is walking up the steps in Seadrift, Texas and earning my second patch as a competitor in the event.

The Keuka Whaler - Part Seven
In the 6th installment of building the Keuka Whaler we finished with the fitting of all the floors. Now come the floor boards.

Sail Oklahoma! - October 6th-10th 2011
...I received several emails from Jackie Monies inviting me to Sail Oklahoma!/2011 PDR World Championship.

Nuthatch 12
This is the finished design of the 12ft "fishing" version, and I have a 14ft version in the early hull modeling stage.

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Mounting Hatches on Curved Decks
How to create an attractive flat mounting surface for a deckplate on a curved boat deck.

Propulsia
When my plastic paddle broke, I found myself looking at the substantial ferule of my basswood treesaw.

Dry Rot
Dry rot is like cancer for boats. As with that pernicious disease, the longer you let it go the worse it gets until eventually nothing can be done.

"Can a Few Simple Modifications Make a Clever, Proven DIY Roller Furler Design Even Better?"
The result is the most accessible (i. e., buildable), coolest DIY furler design of this quality that I have seen.

Wedge Sail
It's been a lengthy journey, but finally I am ready to release the plans for the WEDGE Sail option.

Foam Boat
The concept of a small boat made of styrofoam always intrigued me, but I never got around to designing and building one until now.

A Brief Retrospective in Photos
A final report on the Grand Canyon
by Tom.

Special Report:
CHASING GHOSTS IN THE GRAND CANYON—A COLORADO RIVER RUN
by Tom Pamperin

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On to Apalachicola and St Joe
We had planned to make the 6 to 8 hour run to Apalachicola outside but now the weather was starting to not cooperate.

An Abridged History of the Texas Long Boats
Billed as "The world's toughest canoe race", it may well be.

Can Your Trimaran Do This?
With my newest 16-foot trimaran, that 5-minute setup goal has not only been met, it's been slashed in half!

2011 Texas 200 in a Day Sailer II - Part Three
We got up early Tuesday morning, packed our gear and got ready to sail.

April Love - Part One
So for this second floor 'Death March Up The Stairs' apartment, my friend Ken Simpson designed me an 8 footer I can carry.

My Sail OK Experience
I was desperate to go to Sail OK 2011. It looked like everyone in the small boat building world was descending on Eufaula.

Not Another Scarf Joint Jig!
A scarf joint is needed in boatbuilding so many times, for keel, mast and spars, gunwale, battens…

A Bolger Boat at Sail Oklahoma
If I just had a Core Sound 17, I would never ask for anything else, ever again!

Improving the Bolger Light Schooner Motor Well (Again)
During this period of neglect (and before, actually), the light schooner's transom got a bit soft in spots.

Special EC Webwatch

Mark Steele's Model Yacht Column
Mark Steele on a wonderful world of small boats.

Coastal Cruising Into 2012
For the second year in a row a small group of friends from the Texas200 and the Central Texas Boatcrafters and Messers decided to cruise into the new year at the helm of their small boats.

2011 Texas 200 in a Day Sailer II - Part Two
On Sunday morning we headed to the skipper's meeting at 8am. It was a short meeting.

A Less than Urgent Update
The morning stroll to the beach reveals a brilliant white blanket shrouding the peaks east of the lake, heralding the coming close of my beloved sailing season.

Gamaray, a Mayfly 14, Does the Texas200 - Pt 4
Friday, June 17th, 2011. I will always think of this day as "Reef Day".

Small Boat Stoves - Part Three
Last month Bill Nolen wrote about the different types of Butane and Propane stoves that can be used on small boats. This month in Part three he writes about Duel-Fuel and Solid Fuel stoves.

Sort of a Mini-Messabout
'Let's go up to Nockamixon' (a major sailing venue 40 mile north of Philadelphia).

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Making Westing at Last
We added provisions to the boat, looked carefully at the weather and on June 19th, Father's Day, left Dunedin early in the morning.

Three Boats, Four Trips, One Summer
This summer I got the chance to sail three different boats and explore some of the waters closer to me in the Mid-Atlantic.

Special Report:
The 2012 Everglades Challenge

The Lutz Skiff and Sliding Rigger
Blessed with such opportunity, naturally I had to have a boat for fishing and rowing exercise.

Working With Kids
The stories they will tell their friends, their social posts and text messages will all sound crazy to their friends.

Conrad's Ships
If there is a Shakespeare of the sea, it is Joseph Conrad.

Boat Building in South Korea
Looking through Duckworks Magazine, some other students and I found the one person mini-yacht: Queen Mab and Stella.

Life of a Sailsman: Feel Free
I am 24, a year and a half out of college, and in possession of a halfway-built Toon 2.

Rowing
Here is the tale of the Oarling and learning how to row with a sliding seat.

A Two-Sheet Pirogue - Part 2
Yes, I do mean real Bondo. I'm not using epoxy on this project for a couple reasons.

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2011 Texas 200 in a Day Sailer II - Part One
I had tried to sail the Texas 200 in 2010 single handed in my 1976 Day Sailer II and only made it two days before I had to pull out.

Mark Steele's Model Yacht Column
Mark Steele on a wonderful world of small boats.

A PuddleDuck and the Everglades Challenge - 4b
I was looking around my workshop trying to think of materials to use to make a nice sturdy oarlock when I happened to look at a practice dodger frame I had bent out of ¾" galvanized conduit.

A PuddleDuck and the Everglades Challenge - 4a
Yes, you heard me right. There WILL be a Puddle Duck Racer doing the 2012 300 mile Everglades Challenge.

Gamaray, a Mayfly 14, Does the Texas200 - Pt 3
I have built rudders for larger boats and always used bolts instead of screws, but I really did not think that such a small blade on such a small boat would generate enough force to rip out 1#10 screws.

Special Reoprt:
The FCC rules against Lightsquared

Small Boat Stoves - Part Two
Last month Bill Nolen wrote about the different types of alcohol stoves that can be used on small boats. This month in Part two he writes about Butane and Propane stoves.

Michalak Ladybug Re-boarding Ladder
Here is a quick sketch showing the components of the ladder I recently adapted for my Ladybug.

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More Electronics, Maintenance and Mechanical Electronics
I could have had all the work done by a yard but I believe any owner needs to "own" the engine as best he or she can.

A Camping Trip to End All Camping Trips - Pt. 2
We awoke about 8 the next morning to find rain and wind both much diminished.

Macho Men of the Sea
A friend told me he hadn't moved in 30 years, and dreads the thought like it was a bear at the door. I sympathize.

Build A 15 Mph Boat For Under $1500? - Pt. 2
Fortunately, not everything I built was quite so laughable.

Build A 15 Mph Boat For Under $1500? - Pt. 1
My goal was simple: I wanted to get 15 mph out of a boat that would cost me less than $1500 to build.

Disasters Come in Threes
We sailors tend to de a superstitious lot on the whole, and why not, when you are dealing with something as vast and immutable as the sea it pays to be conservative.

Phil Bolger and Bob Hicks Changed my Life
In 1964 I built an 18' pontoon boat from Science and Mechanics plans, put a small cabin on it, loaded it with 100 pounds of books and an alcohol stove, and tried to circumnavigate the East Coast.

The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding
A Busy Summer at The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding.

Roper 9000 - Part 1
Around three years ago I decided I wanted a 9 meter shoal draft yacht.

A Two-Sheet Pirogue - Part 1
OK, who am I kidding? Upon gaining some free floorspace I was seized with the uncontrollable urge to build a pirogue.

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The Electric Moto Craft (EMC) Launch
This new design has been floating around in my head for several years now.

A Journey Off to One Side
This missive came about because a couple of Duckwork Forum members asked me to expound on how I had "missed the mark" so far in this particular endeavor.

Mark Steele's Model Yacht Column
Mark Steele on a wonderful world of small boats.

A PuddleDuck and the Everglades Challenge -3
All homeboat builders have experienced first cut fever when you are hesitant to push that circular saw through plywood committing yourself to hours of building...

Die Foldermaus - Part Three
At this point I went to my local hardware store and was seduced by the lair of the siren at my local big box hardware store.

Gamaray, a Mayfly 14, Does the Texas200 - PT 2
The next morning I loaded the boat up and headed to Magnolia Beach to meet my friend Stan Roberts.