We realized that we have been running this blog for over four years now. This is the second iteration of it, as of last Winter, so our analytics are incomplete. It is the case for the last several months, however, – and we promise that it has basically always been the case – that [...]
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 Posted on December 15th, 2009Category: 2. Designs & Designers, 2B. Day Sailers, 3. Boatbuilding |
 Tags: camp cruiser, day sailer, great design, wayfarer dinghy |
 2 comments |  Trackback this Post Posted on March 8th, 2009Call 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 boatbuilding itch, and we got some father-son bonding time in. Hey – that’s a three-fer! The mission – and of course we chose to accept it – was building a 13′ 3″ Melonseed skiff, based on lines taken from a 1920′s craft, the oldest surviving one of its type. Specifically, the task for the day was beginning to install the ribs. We were both thrilled as neither of us had done that before. I’ll not carry on – check out the images. Posted on October 6th, 2008I have mentioned the presence of one of Iain Oughtred’s Caledonia Yawls at the festival. I had previously only seen the design in pictures and it was a thrill to get a up-close-and-personal with the boat, one of my favorite designs. This one is REBECCA ANN, built by Geoff Kerr in 2002 and owned [...] Posted on October 5th, 2008Here are most of the other pictures I took at the Mid-Atlantic Small Craft [...] Category: 2. Designs & Designers, 3. Boatbuilding, 4. Boating, 6. Organizations & Education |
Tags: adirondack guideboat, canoe, chesapeake bay maritime mus., chesapeake log canoe, classic boat, dan sutherland, day sailer, delaware ducker, electric launch, gloucester light dory, great design, iain oughtred, kayak, lug rig, mid-atlantic small craft festival, sailing canoe, skipjack, sprit rig, wooden boat festival |
3 comments | Trackback this Post Posted on September 11th, 2008Some “shuckie darns” business travel recently: back to Seattle, which means, yes, more visits to the Center for Wooden Boats, which I praised a bit back. I got in two visits and availed myself of a row and a sail. Both were great. It had been a long time – a frighteningly [...] Posted on June 21st, 2008I was in Seattle for business last week, which allowed me to make a pilgrimage to the Center for Wooden Boats, a place so cool I cannot contain it to a single post, nor even two. In fact, friends, a roughly two-and-a half-hour visit gave me four interesting posts to lay out for you. [...] Posted on May 3rd, 2008I read an article last night that prompted me to reflect on how I rate the value of a magazine article. One could imagine a star system, like those for restaurant, movie, or record reviews. Zero stars means that, at best, the article gave me nothing – no entertainment, no new knowledge, no nuggets [...] Category: 5. Boat Media |
Tags: classic boat, day sailer, great design, lug rig, nomans land boat, sail plan, sprit rig, tom jackson, woodenboat magazine |
Leave a comment | Trackback this Post Posted on May 3rd, 2008I was pleased to be able to at least see a picture of the two-masted crabbing skiff I worked on last year during my Apprentice for a Day stint at Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum. Here she is, and she is still for sale. A bargain at $10,500. This boat would be a wonderful, [...] Category: 2B. Day Sailers |
Tags: camp cruiser, chesapeake bay maritime mus., classic boat, crabbing skiff, day sailer, for sale, howard chapelle |
Leave a comment | Trackback this Post Posted on September 7th, 2007A while back I wrote about the Wayfarer Dinghy, a subject that still keeps people coming back to Chine bLog. It referenced my first knowledge of the boat, an adventure in one up the coast of Labrador. Imagine, then, my very pleasant surprise to see that the man behind that adventure found my post [...] Category: 2B. Day Sailers, 4B. Sailing |
Tags: camp cruising, day sailer, wayfarer dinghy |
Leave a comment | Trackback this Post Posted on September 7th, 2007I recently found some comments I had heretofore not noticed, including one from designer / builder Michael Storer, who seems to hail from Australia. Thanks for visiting, Michael! Storer has some nice-looking plans, including one I particularly like, a sailing canoe [...] Category: 2. Designs & Designers, 3. Boatbuilding |
Tags: australia, day sailer, sailing canoe |
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