A New Lyman
Chippewa Boatworks of Seville, Ohio, has developed a new boat based on vintage Lyman...
No. 300
September/October 2024
Featuring WoodenBoat at 50, a New Lyman, making lumber from logs, aboard: WESTERN FLYER, wooden boat building education, and WoodenBoat School’s Havens and Herreshoffs.
In This Issue
Features
Making Lumber from Logs
A chainsaw mill allows a boatbuilder to take advantage of wood that might otherwise...
Aboard: WESTERN FLYER
WESTERN FLYER was a relatively new sardine seiner working out of Monterey, California, when Steinbeck chartered...
A Half-Century of Learning
Learn to build, maintain, and restore wooden boats with courses at WoodenBoat School, The...
The Commencement Boats
WoodenBoats's Herreshoffs and Havens are hard to discern and are considered the best all-around...
WoodenBoat at 50
WoodenBoat has become an inspiration, a community builder, and a forum for tens of...
Final Shot
WoodenBoat founder Jon Wilson joined us for an afternoon on the waterfront to discuss—and...
Departments
Fifty Years and 300 Issues
Chris-Craft Sea Skiff and a lapstrake-planked cabin cruiser and WoodenBoat magazine was founded in September...
Letters to the Editor:
Sept/Oct 2024
The Fife schooner ASTOR, screw removal, wood-composite construction, INTEGRITY’s sailing of the Northwest Passage, and...
CASTING BRONZE
Overcoming the high-smelting-temperature barriers of formulating a useful alloy, and producing durable bronze objects...
Shop-Made: A Masthead Wind Pennant
In order to sail safely and efficiently, a sailor needs to know the direction...
Launchings: Sept/Oct 2024
Launchings is dedicated to sharing recently launched wooden boats built or restored by WoodenBoat...
A Myth, a Half-Truth, and a Possible Deception
A higher ratio of latewood to earlywood, such trees yield stronger wood and that...
The Canadian Canoe Museum
More than 200 boats are on exhibit at the Canadian Canoe Museum’s new building...
ECCENTRIS
ECCENTRIS is an unconventional motorboat, trailer-sailer, daysailer, catboat, and catamaran meant for a retired...
Marta
Gannon & Benjamin Marine Railway has recently launched hull No. 1 of its Marta...
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