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Tom Cunliffe

by Nic Compton
Tom Cunliffe has written 30 books ranging from histories to sailing manuals and cruising pilots, magazine articles, and documentaries.

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Rot Prevention

by Greg Rössel
Rot prevention in wooden boats begins during construction. Considerations include wise material choices, such as rot-resistant timber and compatible fastenings, and careful planning to avoid. standing water and to promote airflow.

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Swan Point Garvey

by Russ Manheimer
The Swan Point Garvey is the culmination of Russ Manheimer’s years of dreaming about the perfect boat for day excursions in the coastal marshes of New Jersey. Doug Hylan designed the boat, and his shop, Hylan & Brown Boatbuilders of Brooklin, Maine, built it in time for an early June launching.

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Rescue Renovation

by Todd Allen Schwede
Launched in 1924, the schooner BAGHEERA was saved from oblivion in the early 1980s. Today, she is the centerpiece of a charter business in Portland, Maine.

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Shad Boats

by Paul Molyneaux
The North Carolina shad boat is emblematic of the post-Civil War–era South. It embodies innumerable aspects of this period of its region’s historical resource use and development patterns. The changes...

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Sailing Between the Trees

Text and photographs by Nic Compton
Four camp-cruisers, Goat Island Skiff EPIK, Silmaril TRUK 2, the Grand Silmaril VITAE BREVIS, and the Silmaril KERELEN 4.

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MARGARET PEARL

by Nigel Sharp
The 56′ MARGARET PEARL commercial crayfishing vessel designed and built in the Australian island state of Tasmania.

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RAGTIME

by Text by Randall Peffer, photographs by Steven Jost
More than 50 years after she was launched, the groundbreaking sloop RAGTIME has emerged from a comprehensive refit and is winning races.

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Moving Heavy Tools

by Ken Bowen • Illustrations by Isaac Robbins
Tricks and devices from the theater world that can be applied to managing tools and other heavy items in a boatshop.

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Perth’s Fleet of Herreshoff H28s

by Nigel Sharp, Text and Photographs
THE FIRST JINDARRA, ANNA, and SWIFTSURE SAGA are among a fleet of wooden-hulled H28s that continue to race regularly as a one-design class out of the South of Perth Yacht Club in Western Australia. About 40 of the boats have been built in the state since the 1940s, following plans by L. Francis Herreshoff.

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ISOBEL

by Robert W. Stephens
Yacht designer Robert W. Stephens creates a custom electric-powered, wooden-hulled runabout with mid-century roots.

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GREMLIN

by Jay Panetta
GREMLIN, a 26′ motor whaleboat originally built for the U.S. Navy in 1942, was converted in the 1950s to pleasure use.

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