https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/utility-beauty-and-longevity/ Tue, 14 Jan 2025 15:05:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/utility-beauty-and-longevity/#comment-150188 Fri, 03 Jan 2025 15:24:56 +0000 https://smallboatsmonthly.com/?post_type=article&p=241119#comment-150188 For more on Rangeley guideboat history, an early discussion can be found in “The Rangeley Boat: A Background Sketch, by John Gardner, The Log of Mystic Seaport, winter 1973.
Later histories include “The Rangeley Tradition”, by Paul McGuire, Wooden Boat No. 39, spring, 1981, and Stephan A. Cole, The Rangeley and Its Region, Tilbury House, 2007.

]]> https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/utility-beauty-and-longevity/#comment-150089 Thu, 02 Jan 2025 22:22:02 +0000 https://smallboatsmonthly.com/?post_type=article&p=241119#comment-150089 The Barrett Rangeley Lakes boat started it’s life as a 17′ or so double ender. To convert it for an outboard, it was simple to wack it off at about 14 then insert a transom. A 17 footer in the Mystic collection had the after foot or so of ribs and the stern stem removed. Then the boat was spread, a transom was inserted, and some frames added to replace the ones removed. There is a nice 14 foot solo Rangeley in the Mystic collection that Barrett built for a sport. It has frequently been duplicated including maybe twenty or so when we were looking at building methods for building lots of a single boat type.

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