June 2024 Archives - Small Boats Magazine https://smallboatsmonthly.com/issue/june-2024/ Fri, 12 Jul 2024 14:41:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 From the Dumpster to the Launching Ramp https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/from-the-dumpster-to-the-launching-ramp/ https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/from-the-dumpster-to-the-launching-ramp/#comments Sun, 26 May 2024 01:00:32 +0000 https://smallboatsmonthly.com/?post_type=article&p=183351 When Polly came in to work one day, the boat was gone. She didn’t think much of it until a colleague told her it had been thrown out, but that he had rescued it from the dumpster. He felt sorry for it, saying it deserved better than to be simply thrown away. He thought he should ask Polly if she would be interested in finishing the boat.

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]]> https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/the-erie-canal-by-canoe/feed/ 9 A Rainy Sunday Afternoon https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/a-rainy-sunday-afternoon/ https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/a-rainy-sunday-afternoon/#comments Sun, 26 May 2024 00:58:27 +0000 https://smallboatsmonthly.com/?post_type=article&p=183347 I’d brought lunch and backed away from the island to float in its lee while I ate. Putting up the umbrella and taking my sou’wester off changed the sound of the rain. The muffled pattering on the hat’s soft waxed canvas was replaced by a staccato tapping as sharp as fingertip snaps of static electricity. The curve of the umbrella surrounded me with rain’s music, a sound that can capture my full attention and push aside thinking as surely as gazing into the flickering flames of a campfire.

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]]> https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/a-rainy-sunday-afternoon/feed/ 9 The Scout 10 https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/scout-10/ https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/scout-10/#comments Sun, 26 May 2024 00:57:49 +0000 https://smallboatsmonthly.com/?post_type=article&p=183345 The Scout 10 was developed in Port Townsend, Washington, by Duckworks and Turn Point Design. Their goal was to create “the smallest possible camp-cruising sailboat.” It had to be light enough for cartopping, have plenty of built-in flotation, be easy to rig, sail and row well, have ample dry storage, and be roomy enough to sleep aboard. They squeezed everything into a 10-footer with a 52″ beam.

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]]> https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/scout-10/feed/ 4 Maptattoo https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/maptattoo/ https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/maptattoo/#comments Tue, 21 May 2024 02:07:17 +0000 https://smallboatsmonthly.com/?post_type=article&p=182954 The Maptattoo was designed to address the difficulties its developers encountered using a tablet while they were participating in the 2018 Race to Alaska (R2AK). The first issue was visibility.

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]]> https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/maptattoo/feed/ 8 All-Terrain Carts https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/all-terrain-carts/ https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/all-terrain-carts/#comments Tue, 21 May 2024 01:54:19 +0000 https://smallboatsmonthly.com/?post_type=article&p=182933 My canoes and kayaks don’t make it so easy for me, especially when my truck and the water are separated by stretches of asphalt, loose cobbles, and sand and I have to do the lugging. Carts with wheels do fine on pavement, but they get bogged down in sand and rocks.

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]]> https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/all-terrain-carts/feed/ 10 Waterlust Sailing Canoe https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/waterlust-sailing-canoe/ https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/waterlust-sailing-canoe/#comments Sat, 18 May 2024 21:20:38 +0000 https://smallboatsmonthly.com/?post_type=article&p=182871 I fell in love with the graceful sheer and reasoned that the boat was not so big, and I would not have invested too much time, money, and energy if I found out that either I was not the boatbuilder I had hoped I might be, or that the boat was not right for me. The Waterlust did turn out to be the right one, and the sheer still gets me every time.

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