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The people are speaking: time to publish Wayfarer Dinghy plans

Posted on December 15th, 2009

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 – [...]

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

Posted on March 8th, 2009

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 [...]

Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival in review – Iain Oughtred’s Caledonia Yawl

Posted on October 6th, 2008

I 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 [...]

Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival LIVE! – My collected pictures

Posted on October 5th, 2008

Here are most of the other pictures I took at the Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival.

On the water at the Center for Wooden Boats: Lake Oswego Boat and Wood’s Hole Sprit Boat

Posted on September 11th, 2008

Some “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 [...]

The Center for Wooden Boats – Part 1: Sailing the Cape Ann Dory Q’ONA

Posted on June 21st, 2008

I 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. [...]

Doing a sail-plan? You need to read Tom Jackson’s latest in WoodenBoat

Posted on May 3rd, 2008

I 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 [...]

More from Chesapeake Bay Maritme Musuem – two-masted crabbing skiff still for sale

Posted on May 3rd, 2008

I 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 [...]

How cool is this – my Wayfarer Dinghy adventurer surfaces!

Posted on September 7th, 2007

A 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 [...]

Michael Storer Boat Design – nice work from Down Under

Posted on September 7th, 2007

I 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 called BETH.

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