February 2022 Archives - Small Boats Magazine

Swamp Creek

Christopher Cunningham — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 23:08:28 +0000

I noticed Swamp Creek, a small tributary to the Sammamish River. I had rowed, paddled, and motored the river countless times and had never noticed the creek. Its entrance, just a dimple on the right bank, had been all too easy to overlook from the river. I decided to take my Whitehall there and see if I could find and row the creek.

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Utility Launch

Nigel Sharp — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 23:07:48 +0000

Nelson Zimmer designed his Utility Launch to transport passengers and supplies between towns and remote fishing camps in Canada’s North Woods. It had to be seaworthy enough to deal with the chop it might encounter when crossing large lakes but didn’t have to do so at any great speed.

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Outer Banks 26

Ken Katz — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 23:06:37 +0000

The Outer Banks 26 shares many features with the smaller B&B Outer Banks designs with their Carolina-style bows, which look good and help keep water off the deck in a chop. The stern has a nicely curved transom and sweet tumblehome.

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Pen Lake

Phil Boyer — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 23:04:33 +0000

We launched and settled into a cadence through Rock Lake Creek, a winding section of the Madawaska that leads to Rock Lake. Our destination for the day was Pen Lake, 3.5 miles downstream from the launch. The slow-flowing creek was still shrouded in the cool shade of morning, while the trees along the western side were in the amber glow of full sunlight.

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Removable Floorboards

Eric Hvalsoe — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 23:03:38 +0000

While it may be common practice with plank-on-frame construction of this sort to fasten floorboards to the ribs, the floorboards are then a nuisance to remove, and repeated removal of the screws will damage the oak ribs. I’ve seen this death-by-floorboards phenomena in a few small boats.

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Custom Tie-Downs

Audrey and Kent Lewis — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 23:02:13 +0000

A well-designed strap for a small boat will secure the load without damaging the boat. We have come to prefer straps of 2″-wide webbing because they distribute loads evenly across the decks and gunwales of lightly-built small boats.

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Impact Fenders

Christopher Cunningham — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 22:59:46 +0000

Ordinary boat fenders are meant to serve at the dock but the rest of the time they’re only along for the ride. Impact Fenders, a company based in Durango, Colorado, has come up with something different: fenders that make themselves useful not only at the dock but also underway and ashore.

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TRIO

Christopher Cunningham — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 22:57:53 +0000

The size of his boat would be limited by the space he had available for building it, which was the living room of his one-bedroom third story apartment. And the only place he would have to store the finished boat was the 4′-long, 3′-wide back end of his Toyota hatchback. The boat would have to be sectional.

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