18′ Escargot Canal Boat

Technique

Six Ways to Build a Wooden Boat

There are about six common methods of building wooden boats today, with variations on each. No particular method can be proclaimed the best; each comes with its own suite of…

John Hartmann’s Ilur

Phil Thiel was enamored of the canals of England and France and found the slow pace along the waterways, the pauses at the locks, and the proximity of verdant shores...

MALU

“Jones began sketching an evolution of the Windmill, a boat that would be less demanding and more practical for daysailing.”

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Puddle Duck Racer

“...anyone would look at it and think, ‘Yeah, I could probably build something like that.’”

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Goat Island Skiff

Paul and Cristophe are experienced sailors who were looking for an inexpensive, yet sophisticated, boat to satisfy their skill levels.

Jewell

Small-boat cruisers have a long list of things they look for in a boat, and I can’t think of any criterion that this design fails to meet. And it meets…

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PRIMROSE

PRIMROSE stands as proof that Nielsen put as much of himself into his small boats as his large ones, and she is as timeless as any of them.

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Marsh Duck

Tough enough to drag across a rocky beach yet light enough to tow behind a bicycle.

The Morley Guide Canoe

In the early 1970s, Greg Morley, left, decided to leave a career in forestry and park management to make a living building cedar-strip canoes. More than 40 years later, his…

DIANNE’S ROSE

After Dianne Schreyer told her husband she’d spend more time on the water if they had a more stable boat, Roy built DIANNE’S ROSE. The couple are on the water…

OBSESSION

A sweeping sheerline, together with ample “rocker,” or bottom curvature, give the McKenzie drift boats the ability to deftly run whitewater such as Marten’s Rapids on the namesake river in…

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Feather 14

Drawing on a wide variety of influences, among them American racing sandbaggers and local traditional raceboats, Federico Lenardon developed a fast daysailer for the waters of Trieste, Italy.

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BUNDUKI

BUNDUKI is a sport boat built to Australian John Georgalas’s Deep V 16′design. Initially, the design was to be a one-off for an American friend, but the drawings have since…

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Bevin’s Skiff

Joe Youcha wants to build boats. A lot of boats. Not only does he want to build boats, but he wants you to build one as well. Back in the…

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The Friendship Catboat

In boating circles, the word "friendship" brings to mind the classic Maine-built sloop from which pre-internal-combustion lobstermen tended their traps. For Richard Armstrong, however, the word conjures up a different…

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Pinguino 145 and 145 4PD

The Pinguino 145 is a stitch-and-glue plywood sea kayak that comes as a kit from Pygmy Boats in Port Townsend, Washington. An alternate version, the 145 4PD (it has a…

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The Golant Ketch

The Golant Ketch is a 20′ hard-chined camp-cruiser designed by Roger Dongray. Dongray is perhaps best known for his Cornish Shrimper, which he designed in 1976 with the intention of…

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The Penobscot Wherry

The Penobscot Wherry from Cottrell Boatbuilding of Searsport, Maine, is based on the Lincolnville salmon wherry, a beamy high-volume boat used to remove salmon from weirs in the days when…

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Outrigger Junior

Long before Europeans ventured to the new world, sailing dugout canoes fitted with outriggers sailed the waters in Southeast Asia and were used for migration throughout the Pacific region. The…

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Sam Crocker’s Small Outboard Skiff

Here’s a boat type one doesn’t see too often these days. It’s a modest-sized outboard designed not as a center-console but instead with a small cabin that will accommodate the…