October 2022 Archives - Small Boats Magazine

Lit

Wed, 21 Sep 2022 20:37:26 +0000

uilding my sneakbox, LUNA, in the winter of 1984 in a shop without electricity wasnâ€™t as hard as it might seem. While I was living on an old mine claim...

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A 17′ Outboard Runabout

Wed, 21 Sep 2022 20:36:40 +0000

Paul Gartsideâ€™s design #221 for a 17â€² outboard runabout came about in 2016 when he had an inquiry from a resident of Victoria, British Columbia. The brief was for a 1950s/1960s-style boat with a pair of seats behind a protective windscreen, with room for gear or extra passengers aft, and to use in the Gulf Islands, an archipelago in the inland sea between Vancouver Island and the British Columbia mainland.

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Nutshell

Wed, 21 Sep 2022 20:34:09 +0000

The Nutshell Pram has classic looks, is small, simple, and affordable, provides refreshing relief from the complexity of larger boats, and does the job for which it was designed exceedingly well. We join Maynard in believing that the Nutshell Pram is Mr. Whiteâ€™s best design. Thousands of Nutshells were built during the first decade of the design being offered. â€œCanâ€™t beat â€™em,â€ Maynard says.

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A Week on Georgian Bay

Wed, 21 Sep 2022 20:33:06 +0000

At our fourth campsite, a slabby cove tucked into a dead end of a 4-mile seam in the bedrock of the Delta, we packed up and launched the boats with the sun still below the treetops. We rowed west down the bedrock seam to where it intersected the Bad River Channel, then turned south. It was 3 miles to open water from here, along a meandering course that wound its way through clusters of weathered rocks that rose from the water like the backs of whales. The southwesterly breeze was a stiff headwind for us here, but if it held, weâ€™d be able to make good progress offshore, sailing a zig-zag course of asymmetrical tacks westward.

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Sail Care

Wed, 21 Sep 2022 20:31:40 +0000

As our sailmaker, Hunter, told us, we could skip the sail care and heâ€™d be happy to sell us new sails every year. But sails are expensive to replace, and recently there have been sailcloth shortages and the cost is not likely to go down. Proper sail care can easily stretch a sailâ€™s life to 40 years or more.

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An Old-School Folding Ruler

Wed, 21 Sep 2022 20:28:54 +0000

We used the ruler during construction of our Nutshell Pram and the 1/8â€³Â markings were a good fit with the 3â€³:1â€² scale of the plans. Originally invented in 1851, the folding ruler has stood the test of time in boatshops for more than 170 years, and the Sybren should span a few generations in our family.

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Moldaway

Wed, 21 Sep 2022 20:26:37 +0000

Parts of that sail and some of my other sails are speckled black with mildew, probably from keeping them for years in an unheated garage made humid by a leak in the roof. Iâ€™ve read that mildew doesnâ€™t damage the Dacron fibers that my sails are woven from, but it looks terrible. Bleach is a common household remedy for mildew and mold, and while Dacron can endure, nylon canâ€™t, and to be on the safe side with the materials used in thread, boltropes, and whatever else is part of a sail, itâ€™s best to avoid bleach. Â To see if I could get my sails looking better, I tried Shurholdâ€™s Moldaway, a â€œpowdered oxygenated cleanerâ€ that does not contain bleach or chlorine and right on the label lists sails among the items it can clean.

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DERRY

Wed, 21 Sep 2022 20:21:23 +0000

When Gary foresaw another lockdown coming, he once again entered negotiations with Anne about building yet another boat. This time it was Chesapeake Light Craftâ€™s Skerry, a 15â€² double-ender for oar and sail. â€œI argued that building a boat was an important mental health measure.â€ To up the ante even further he put the Skerry kit on his pointedly specific Christmas and December birthday wish lists. He also placed the order.

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