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13
Foot River Runner Update
Boatbuilding in the winter is tough - even in
New Mexico, but Cecil Severs has plenty of lamps.
He is also making progress towards a Spring
launch. |
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Building
a Puddle Goose
Would you build a sailboat if you had never
sailed in your life? Bob Alston did. It was
a Puddle Duck - but then he found out he needed
something bigger... |
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Sam
Rabl's Buzz Bomb
This boat from Sam Rabl's 'Boat Building in
Your Own Backyard' inspired Russell Livingston
to build a model. Careful, I think it might
be catching! |
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South
Haven Dory in a Week
Think you could build a boat in a week? Jay
Blackburn did it and he gives us a blow by blow
description of exactly how he went about it. |
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Two
Quick Tips
Here are a couple of pointers from Donald Freix
and as a life-long boating aficinado and professional
carpenter, he should know what he is talking
about. |
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Rudder
& Daggerboard Foils - Part 2
Merry Christmas! In case you are at your computer
today, we have one more gift: Part 2 of Warren
Messer's series on making foil rudders and boards.
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A
Wood Slat Seat
When Glynn Sirmans wrote about his Toto XL -
Angler Edition last year in Duckworks, he had
no idea there would be such demand for plans
for the seat... |
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Oar
Leathers
Normally we don't reprint articles from other
websites, but Paul Gartside's article was recommended
by a reader and it is extremely well done. |
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Cruising
with Yuko
There must be something special about Barrett
Faneuf's Navigator "Yuko". Mark Delbrueck's
photo essay is the second piece on it in a month. |
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Pathfinder
in Ocracoke
With the combination of the seaworthy and beautiful
Pathfinder and the wonderful sheltered water
of Ocracoke bay, you realize Steve Early is
a lucky man. |
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Paradox
Enuf Launched
And sold. Yes, this is a story with a sad ending.
In his usual entertaining way, Derek Clark tells
the rest of the story about his Paradox Project.
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Piccup
Pram Trip Report
The Pacific Northwest is a beautiful place to
cruise and John Guppy made good use of his Piccup
Pram to explore a good chunk of it. |
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Bringing
a 1956 Johnson 15 hp Back to Life - Part
VII: Gentlemen: start your engines
Max Wawrzyniak starts to put his motor back
to gether after an extensive refurbishing. |
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Fids
If you have ever fiddled with a fid, you probably
know what it is for. But for the uninitiated,
David Nichols explains all about this marlinspike
tool. |
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The
Therapeutic Boat
We usually think of boat building as an entertaining
and useful diversion, but as Marco Masoni explains,
boat building can be therapeutic too. |
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A
Case for Building in Aluminum
An aluminum scow daysailer? If that sounds crazy,
let Harrold Duffield explain himself. He is
talking in more general terms but he makes a
lot of sense. |
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An
Australian Sea Horse?
Mark Steele can be counted on for breath taking
photos and intriguing stories in his regular
monthly column; Where the Winds Blow... |
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The
Perfect Beachcruiser
Ross Lillistone knows that designing boats all
about compromise and when old friends get together
they can enjoy agonizing over them all. |
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Sewing
for Manly Men - Part 1
Rob Rohde-Szudy disposes of the macho idea that
sewing is "women's work" in the first
paragraph. From there he shows us how to do
it ourselves. |
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Phoenix
III
Ross Lillistone thought hard to come up with
a design for the perfect beachcruiser; then
he worked even harder to create a set of plans
to build the boat. |
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Blackwater
16
Here is a great new design from Chris Ostlind.
If you fish and/or hunt ducks somewhere where
the water is thin, this may be the boat you
have been looking for. |
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Introducing
Egret
Ross Miller set about to design a skin-on-frame
kayak since there were so few plans available.
He got much more, though - this may just be
the perfect boat. |
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Tapered
Round Brush Review
If you have never used one of these brushes
on your boat, perhaps you need to read Herb
McLeod's review. He even tells you where to
get them. |
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The
Night Before Christmas
Stacy Smith told me he wrote this poem: "one
night recently after about three dark roasts".
It does not seem hurried though, in fact I quite
enjoyed it. |
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The
Dilemma
Sometimes one's mortality makes one think about
sailing to Tahiti before its too late. In this
poem Mark Steele points out the downside - and
an alternative. |
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