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2011 Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival –the complete pictures

I wanted to get these pictures of the 2011 Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival up right away;I’ll be adding captions soon.

[UPDATE] Captions are now on there. I encourage you to browse through. There were some AMAZING AMAZING boats there. I’d highlight the sailing canoe SEVEN STARS,the Melonseeds,the sailing canoe in pictures [...]

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Rushton rowing boat,anyone?

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Lovely sprit cat ketch

This is why we love the Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival.

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More stunning yacht designs from Klaus Schmitt

Our posts on the yacht designs of Klaus Schmitt are always popular,so I have finally gotten off my transom and am posting some more. The style is pretty consistent,which I say in the sense that one would of a favorite restaurant.

First up,a lovely 32′schooner. She has extremely pleasing lines,[...]

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’round the blogs –great stuff from elsewhere in the traditional boat blogosphere

It has been far too long (we do I always find myself starting this way? SIGH) since we here at Chine bLog highlighted the great posts others have offered the world regarding wooden / traditional boats. Yes,believe it or not,Chine bLog is NOT the only source. Really. It’s true. If you haven’t discovered [...]

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After too long – more fantastic,classic boat designs from the collection of Klaus Schmitt

Several months ago,we were honored,here at Chine bLog,to post two sets of designs by an amateur designer named Klaus Schmitt (post 1 and post 2). Recently we were excited-as-all-get-out to have a guy contact us looking for Klaus’s info. Yes,Chine bLog generated a well-deserved lead. It turns out we have been [...]

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More from the boat design collection of Klaus Schmitt

After our prior post showing off the designs of Klaus Schmitt we got some more to add to the collection. We continue to love what Klaus’eye and style. Take this launch,which Klaus calls “Pidgeon 21.”Great lines and so much classier for cruising the lake on a nice day.

Another new one [...]

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Proudly presenting the traditional boat designs of Klaus SchmittProudly presenting the traditional boat designs of Klaus Schmitt

We at Chine bLog were humbled recently by an unsolicited request to post a set of traditional boat design sketches. It wasn’t clear what the requester meant,but he was speaking our language,so we asked for more details. What came back is what we expect to the tip of a lovely iceberg. The designer [...]

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The beautiful artwork of James Dodds

I am way behind on posting stuff and am trying to crawl out of it. One post come courtesy of my dad. Messum’s,and art gallery in London,had been selling the work of James Dodds. It looks like they are no longer,so I had to track the work down directly at Dodds’own [...]

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I built another boat! OK,I was just ribbing…

Call it a two-fer. I have been doing the Apprentice for a Day program at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum. I thought my Dad would enjoy it as well,I gave him a day of it for Christmas. Of course I had to join him. So he got to check it out,I scratched my [...]

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