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See WoodenBoat No. 283, November/December 2021. Richard Jagels in his "Wood Technology" column on page 82 has an evaluation of life-cycle analysis, including the French comparison that someone...

I went aboard in Port Townsend the year she was launched. That is the most comofortable sailboat interior I have ever experienced.

In my experience, the sculling notch it not at all useful for sculling. (I built the Bolger Gloucester Light Dory about 22 years ago.) Maybe if you had a purpose-built yuloh it would stand a chance....

The peak halyard I have rigged gives me good control over the spar. By raising the peak and lowering the main halyard, the spar collapses to vertical, and I can gather the clew and the bag of the...

I've just received word from Bill Rutherford that the annual John Gardner Small Craft Workshop has been canceled for this year. (It had been scheduled for June 26-28.)

Here is how Bill put it:
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We've established the dates for the next SRR as July 7 – 11, 2021, in Brooklin, Maine

Hi, all—

We of the Small Reach Regatta have been holding on to the hope that the coronavirus pandemic would diminish enough by spring to allow the event we all love to continue on this summer....

Hi, all—
Following this thread, there is a new post up at the school website:

https://www.thewoodenboatschool.com

The event information (and application form PDF) for the 15 annual Small Reach Regatta is now up and available on the website, www.smallreachregatta.org. The dates are July 23-25 (arrival on the...

Should mention that Brooklin is an 80-mile round trip beyond Searsport. Belfast to Brooklin is about a 1-hour drive. Searsport to Brooklin, maybe 50 minutes.

Nielsen, however, didn't do an "apprenticeship" at S&S. He did a shipwright apprenticeship in Denmark, then worked as a draftsman at Burmeister & Wain before going to the John. G. Alden company as a...

Just a quick before-the-show note to say that Jack Van Ommen can't make it to his 9:30 a.m. Saturday presentation, for one of the most believable of reasons: his sloop FLEETWOOD was shipwrecked off...

Aage Nielsen will be the yacht designer recognized during the annual classic yacht symposium at Castine, Maine, this year.

Part of the traditional yachting race week in Penobscot Bay, the...

Thanks for the note (copied below) Bigfella—I added a note to the post with JAMES CRAIG in it above. I couldn't remember where the ship was found, so glad to have the information. For some reason, I...

I went to the New Sydney, and enjoyed it very much! I'm taking my fiddle next time, for sure.

Tom

I'm afraid that's all I've got—there wasn't a good way to move around her.

Ned Trewartha's traditionally crafted copy of "Mrs. Wilson's Dinghy" is a complex small boat, beautifully crafted, and has a great story behind it.

The boat is 12'1" LOA, and the original was...

JANE KERR is a 49', 1981 crayfishing boat, and a fine looking one. She was designed by Ken Lacco and built by Garry Stewart in Victoria to double as a working boat but also with the potential for...

SMOKY CAPE is a double-ender built in 1973 for marine artist Jack Earl, who co-founded the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race and circumnavigated (not in this boat) in the late 1940s. The boat is 23'9" LOA,...

On Friday, I went out as a guest on HOLGER DANSKE, the K. Aage Nielsen 42' double-ender of 1964, and the light air was probably merciful given the number of boats out. This was the "grand arrival"...

First, a rainbow, which brightened the afternoon yesterday during very high winds and a little bit of cleansing rain.
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I played hookie on Friday for a while to check out the session at the New Sydney pub on Bathurst Street, a few blocks up from the festival site. About 20 musicians were there, and I knew almost all...

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Here and there on the docks:

LATURA is a 1924 William Hand-designed, raised-foredeck cruiser,
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Here and there around the docks. (I'll add details as I have time to enter them.)

This is GYPSY maneuvering into the dock. The subject of a WoodenBoat article by Australian writer Bruce Stannard...

From the Dutch contingent (of which the music boat above is another):


Tjotters
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DARCE, a Couta boat.

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Here are a few photos of BRITANNIA, the 18-footer —*with 3,000 sq ft of sail.

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I had a horrendous flight, Jeff—weather delay in Seattle for 24 hours, followed by mechanical problems and another 24 delay in San Francisco. Left Sunday afternoon from Seattle, and got to Hobart on...

Hey, all—
I'll be arriving in Hobart on Tuesday evening. I'll be around the festival and also the symposium. Hope to see some familiar faces there!
Tom Jackson

I warmly remember going through the storage building after Raid Sweden, which ended at the museum. What a treasure—great pieces of rigging, crosstrees, and boats everywhere. We walked up to the top,...

I'm wintering over in Port Townsend this year, until June...guess I brought some Maine weather with me.

Hey, thanks, Tom—that's awfully nice to hear.

Tom Jackson

The Small Reach Regatta dates for 2017 have been set—we'll be arriving Wednesday, July 19, sailing July 20, 21, and 22, and departing Sunday, July 23.

Things worked out so well in Brooklin, Maine,...

We ended up with a total of 60 boats this year, and it was a comfortable fit both in the campground and the anchorage. Babson Island and Sellers Island both worked out well for lunch haulouts. A...

I had a wonderful time in 2015, and would love to go again— but it's not in the cards. Have a great time, all.

Tom Jackson

Harry won't be at the show this year, unfortunately.

Thanks for the kind words, Ted! I sailed the regatta some years ago (2010—wow, time does fly...), and I had a great time. Would love to go again....

Hi, all —

I thought you all might appreciate having a heads-up about the skills demonstrations coming up at the 2016 WoodenBoat Show, June 24–26 at Mystic Seaport. We have a full and varied slate...

I just got this note from Dick Wagner at The Center for Wooden Boats in Seattle, letting us know about the coming June 10 deadline for Ed Monk Grants:


Still Time to Apply for The Center for...

Right now (March 28), our fleet stands at 65 boats. For those who are interested in joining, the paperwork (available at www.smallreachregatta.org) should be filed very soon.

Our details will be...

Hey, thanks all for the kind remarks. As I've been telling people, it's just one more phone pole along the highway, nothing more....

Tom

Nice photos, Christophe! This year was an especially good one, with a lot of participants from near and not-so-near. The New Year's Day row has become quite a tradition. This year was very mild—but I...

Looks as though they recently redesigned their website.

http://www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/en/professions/boatyard/building-projects/gislingeboat/working-drawings-for-the-gislinge-boat/

See Aimee Fraser's article in WoodenBoat No. 149.

Thanks for the nice words! Things were different this year, I guess. I did have an article in the SBMonthly online about the canvas bunk I made up for my boat....

The dates for the 2016 Small Reach Regatta have been set—July 27-31. We'll be in Brooklin, Maine, again next summer, camping at Ocean Camping at Reach Knolls and sailing out of Atlantic Boat on...

Congratulations on a great project!

Words to live by, Tim!

The original post's reference to "newspaper" is a mystery—the only thing I can think is that he might be talking about the "Getting Started in Boats" pull-out section, which is on a coarser grade of...