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Chesapeake Treasures
John Swain apprenticed at Applegarth’s Boatyard in Oxford on Maryland’s Eastern Shore and has specialized in Chesapeake Bay watercraft.
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THORA and INVERNESS
THORA and INVERNESS sail together where Cheryle St. Onge and Vince Todd built a life around restoring and actively sailing these yachts.
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The Slow Build of LA BELLE SAUVAGE
Solianna Halabisky spent six years building LA BELLE SAUVAGE, an 11′ dinghy whose design she specified with designer Laurie McGowan.
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Maine’s Iconic Sardine Carriers
It was one of those phone calls that you never forget. My wife and I were on a late-summer cruise in our schooner, SARAH ABBOT, anchored at Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts....
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Hanneke Boon
Hanneke Boon, a collaborator with the multihull designer James Wharram, is a lifetime designer, boatbuilder, and seafarer.
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Building Church Mouse, Part 1
Building Church Mouse plans are available in print and digital formats with full-sized patterns for certain components.
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Reviving ADVENTURESS
Jasmine Thomas of WoodenBoat restores and relaunches a Sparkman & Stephens–designed Gulfstream 30 sloop of 1959.
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Windows on a Lost World
The early-20th-century transition from rowing craft to motor-driven boats in the upper Great Lakes.
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The Crosby Who Left the Cape
H. Manley Crosby was an innovator from a family of boatbuilders that is still active in wooden-boat construction.
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The Single-Point Bandsaw Fence
A single point bandsaw fence for making two planks of identical dimensions.
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Tom Cunliffe
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
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
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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ST. VINCENT and CLAN GORDON
Zulu ST. VINCENT and the Lochfyne skiff CLAN GORDON were relaunched in spring 2023.
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Returning a Wooden Boat to the Water
Viable boat-restoration candidates often exist in seemingly hopeless cases, if one can see beyond the peeling paint to sufficient sound wood and fastenings.
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Rescue Renovation
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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Rescuing a Cape Cod Rescue Surfboat
A 1944 rescue surfboat restored in a years-long project at the Cape Cod Maritime Museum in Hyannis, Massachusetts.