August 2022 Archives - Small Boats Magazine

Greenland

Christopher Cunningham — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 02:27:40 +0000

In the summer of 2012 I joined guide Baldvin Kristjansson and seven other paddlers on the southeast coast of Greenland to paddle about 30 miles from the village of Kuummiit to the Knud Rasmussen Glacier. There were icebergs from the very start, but they were just bergy bits and growlers, as the smaller floating blocks of ice are called, few any larger than the kayaks we paddled. They were interesting for the novelty to me as an outsider, but what captivated me was the color of the water around the kayak.

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Shrimper 19

Lawrence W. Cheek — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 02:25:51 +0000

British builder Cornish Crabbers says the Shrimper 19 was the best seller in its line of sailboats ranging from 17′ to 30′ for decades, though now the roomier and much costlier Shrimper 21 has ascended to top seller in its lineup.

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Firefly

Ed Neal — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 02:24:40 +0000

The Firefly has all the attributes for a fast boat appropriate for novices focusing on rowing for exercise or sport. The panel-on-frame construction lends itself to backyard boatbuilding, and the low count of individual parts signals a reasonably quick construction.

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Sailing to Denton

David Dawson — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 02:23:59 +0000

The Choptank quickly narrowed from one-third bemile at the creek to 150 yards just a half mile to the north. There was a wide stretch of marshland on both sides; thick stands of jade green arrow arum along water’s edge, its broad spiked leaves pointing to the sky, a mottled mix of marsh grass behind it. Beating to windward in this narrow passage to Denton required short tacks all the way. I didn’t dare test the depth close to the exposed mud banks. I needed to maintain boat speed to guarantee the tacks. Twice, I stood to hold the boom out to windward to bring TERRAPIN’s head across.

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A Folding Outboard Stand

Christopher Cunningham — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 02:22:44 +0000

Several years ago, I built a stand for the only outboard I had at that time, and it made itself useful for doing maintenance and for flushing the cooling system with fresh water after an outing. When I got a second motor, I put off making a stand for it because I was running out of room and had the two motors share the same stand. That was awkward and I soon grew tired of shifting motors around. For off-season storage of the motors, a 2x4 screwed to the studs of the garage could hold the motors in a minimum of space and with no footprint at all on the floor, but the stand still took up a lot of space. If was going to have a stand for each motor, the second one had to fold so I could hang it up somewhere out of the way.

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Sailor’s Tool

Kent and Audrey Lewis — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 02:22:01 +0000

Myerchin’s Sailor’s Tool serves several needs in a small package. Its construction quality is excellent, and it is lightweight and surprisingly affordable.

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WorkTunes

Christopher Cunningham — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 02:20:33 +0000

The WorkTune’s sound attenuation in the workshop takes care of all my loudest power tools and yet I can still hear someone speaking in a normal voice. The fit is comfortable, and I could wear the muffs for a long spell of power-tool use.

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WAYLO-WAYLO

Christopher Cunningham — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 02:13:18 +0000

I’m a pretty lucky guy,” says Richard Honan, 74, of Winthrop, Massachusetts. He has been building one boat after another since 2002 and in 2019, when dark cloud of the pandemic hit, it had a silver lining for Richard. He had begun work on his 13th boat, a Beach Pea designed by Doug Hylan, and he recalled “my grandkids couldn’t go to school, and they would spend all that time with me building that peapod. It never would have happened to have all day, for weeks on end, for them to come work with me.”

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