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Top designer:Iain OughtredTop designer:Iain Oughtred

I bit ago I realized I was overdue doing a post about Iain Oughtred,a man whose drawing table has produced some gorgeous small craft. I first got introduced to him vis his book on glued lapstake building:Clinker Plywood Boatbuilding Manual. Yeah,he’s a Brit,so he used “clinker,”which,however laden [...]

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Hall of Lame –Wayfarer Dinghy Associations

For a long time I have had a thing for the Wayfarer Dinghy. It started with a piece in the dearly departed Small Boat Journal about a guy cruising the coast of Labrador in one. I looked the look of the boat –and it was a wooden one –but the adventure really captured [...]

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COQUINA by Cap’n Nat

So that sweet daysailer I reference turns out to be COQUINA,one of N. G. Herreshoff’s personally prized works (it seems he might have used it more than any other). She is pretty sweet and definitely looks like a boat to have adventures in. I will definitely be using this as inspiration in the not [...]

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Sweet Herreshoff as cover story in latest WoodenBoat

There is a really sweet Herreshoff cat ketch featured as the cover story for this month’s Wooden Boat. I haven’t read the piece yet,but look forward to doing so. The cover sure is captivating…

WoodenBoat’s site has more info about the issue,and,since I am already talking them up,I might [...]

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