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Jan 17, 2025
How Are Wooden Boats Better for Our Health?
How Are Wooden Boats Better for Our Health?
Being on board a wooden boat certainly feels good, but is it true it’s better for our health?
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Jan 17, 2025
Sailing the North West Passage
Sailing the North West Passage:
Integrity’s Voyage from Alaska
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Jan 16, 2025
This Folkboat
This Folkboat Was Made Famous by a Pioneering Female Sailor
It carried the first female single-hander—Sharon Sites Adams— to Hawaii 60 years ago, and now awaits a makeover in Washington.
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Jan 14, 2025
Lake Rotoiti’s classic boat parade
Lake Rotoiti’s classic boat parade
The second weekend in February will see a magnificent showcase of boating history as the 28th annual Lake Rotoiti Classic and Wooden Boat Parade takes to the water on Saturday, February 8.
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Jan 12, 2025
T2 in Australia
Peter Richardson's T2 in Australia
Peter's T2 will be featured at THE AUSTRALIAN WOODEN BOAT FESTIVAL.
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Jan 10, 2025
How to Build a Dinghy
How to Build a Dinghy: Traditional Craftsmanship
When they found a set of faded plans in Teignmouth museum, Jon Seal and Conor Magee had no idea that this build would lead them on such a fascinating journey
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Jan 10, 2025
Haida Sails
Haida Sails: The Breath of Cedar
Before stories were told, we Haida sailed the Pacific Ocean and the turbulent waters of Hecate Strait, navigating our way from Haida Gwaii, west across the open ocean to Hawai’i and Japan, and south to California and beyond.
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Jan 08, 2025
Legendary Lyman Boats still making waves on Lake Erie
Legendary Lyman Boats still making waves on Lake Erie
Thousands of legendary wooden watercraft from the Lyman Boat Works in Sandusky are still taming the waves of Lake Erie, even though the famous wooden boats first created in 1875 have not been made since 1973.
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Dec 27, 2024
Young boatbuilders to finish rowboat
Young boatbuilders to finish rowboat, build lobster crates
Harpswell Boatbuilders will offer a class for youth ages 9-14 from January through May.
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Dec 11, 2024
Close to the Water
Close to the Water: Escape to the Lake
I never want to go sailing on a lake. The boundaries are known, I can see the destination; the horizon of possibilities is limited.
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Minimax (?) 12' plywood runabout
I built this 12' flat bottom plywood runabout from Popular Mechanics plans in my senior year of high school, 1964.
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How Are Wooden Boats Better for Our Health?
Jan 17, 25 02:41 AM
By Robin Gates
How Are Wooden Boats Better for Our Health?
Being on board a wooden boat certainly feels good, but is it true it’s better for our health?
Continue reading "How Are Wooden Boats Better fo…
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