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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.
Features
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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.
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Shad Boats
he 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
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
The 56′ MARGARET PEARL commercial crayfishing vessel designed and built in the Australian island state of Tasmania.
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Moving Heavy Tools
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
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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Gilles Montaubin’s Small-Craft Minimalism
Simple but fast boats designed by Gilles Montaubin for "sailing light" stood out in an annual gathering for sail-and-oars boats in Europe.
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Free as the Wind
The Breton shipwright Benoît Cayla has led a string of remarkably efficient and intense working-vessel reconstruction projects.
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GERMANIA III
GERMANIA III now sails in the same waters where the Olympic sailing regattas were held in 1936 when she took bronze in the 8-Meter-class competition.
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Forbundet Kysten
Langesund lighthouse marks the entrance to Langesundsfjord in Norway, was once a manned facility but has long been automated.