features Simple Storage Service (S3)
58 Flotation Models Using scaled-down boats to predict Harry Bryan stability and performance
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64 A Higher Education F. Jay Smith’s immersion into Scandinavian boatbuilding Tom Jackson
FEATURES 33 VIRGINIA PARK From imagination to reality
Matthew P. Murphy
40 Repowering VAGABOND Electric power for a classic boat David Gillespie
74 Aboard EROS A guided tour of a 1939 staysail schooner John Tuma
50 The Japanese Handsaw An essential boatbuilding Douglas Brooks tool
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80 The Survivors Among the Chesapeake’s working skipjacks
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Randall Peffer
88 A Time For Every Purpose For schooner owners, maintenance is as much a lifestyle as sailing Maria Simpson
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READER SERVICES 112 How to Reach Us 115 Vintage Boats and Services 117 Boatbrokers 121 Boatbuilders
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128 Kits and Plans 132 Raftings 134 Classified
DEPARTMENTS
143 Index to Advertisers
5 Editor’s Page Powerboat Efficiency 6 Letters 16 Currents 31 Fo’c’s’le Shallow Thoughts
TEAR-OUT SUPPLEMENT edited by Tom Jackson
Getting Started in Boats Rules of the Road
John Pogorelskin
David Kasanof
98 Wood Technology Epoxy Sealants, Rot Repair, Richard Jagels and Borates 100 Designs Sundowner: Strong and able Mike O’Brien 21' cutter 104 Launchings…
and Relaunchings
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Robin Jettinghoff
108 The WoodenBoat Review • Bronze blocks Matthew P. Murphy • Scudding Jenny Bennett • The Boyne Currach Tom Jackson • Books Received 144 Save a Classic SOJOURNER TRUTH: A Husky DoubleMaynard Bray ended Ketch of Teak
Cover: Holland, Michigan, boatbuilder Reff Reinhart designed and built the 17' 2" launch VIRGINIA PARK for outings on Lakes Macataw and Michigan—and for trailering expeditions farther afield.
Page 33 Photograph by Matthew P. Murphy
WoodenBoat (ISSN 0095–067X) is published bimonthly in January, March, May, July, September, and November in Brooklin, Maine, by WoodenBoat Publications, Inc., Jonathan A. Wilson, Chairman. Subscription offices are at P.O. Box 16958, North Hollywood, CA 91615–6958; 1–800–877–5284 for U.S. and Canada. Overseas: 1–818–487–2084. Subscription rate is $32.00 for one year (6 issues) in the U.S. and its possessions. Canadian subscription rate is $37.00, U.S. funds. Surface rate overseas is $45.00, U.S. funds per year. Periodical postage paid at Brooklin, ME 04616 and additional mailing offices. In Canada, periodical postage paid at Toronto, Ontario (Canadian periodical Agreement No. 40612608, GST Registration No. R127081008). U.S. Postmaster: Please send Change of Address (form 3579) to P.O. Box 16958, North Hollywood, CA 91615–6958 Canada Postmaster: Pitney Bowes, P.O. Box 25542, London, ON, N6C 6B2, Canada.
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64 A Higher Education F. Jay Smith’s immersion into Scandinavian boatbuilding Tom Jackson
FEATURES 33 VIRGINIA PARK From imagination to reality
Matthew P. Murphy
40 Repowering VAGABOND Electric power for a classic boat David Gillespie
74 Aboard EROS A guided tour of a 1939 staysail schooner John Tuma
50 The Japanese Handsaw An essential boatbuilding Douglas Brooks tool
Page 64
80 The Survivors Among the Chesapeake’s working skipjacks
Page 88
Randall Peffer
88 A Time For Every Purpose For schooner owners, maintenance is as much a lifestyle as sailing Maria Simpson
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Number 234 September/October 2013
READER SERVICES 112 How to Reach Us 115 Vintage Boats and Services 117 Boatbrokers 121 Boatbuilders
Page 40
128 Kits and Plans 132 Raftings 134 Classified
DEPARTMENTS
143 Index to Advertisers
5 Editor’s Page Powerboat Efficiency 6 Letters 16 Currents 31 Fo’c’s’le Shallow Thoughts
TEAR-OUT SUPPLEMENT edited by Tom Jackson
Getting Started in Boats Rules of the Road
John Pogorelskin
David Kasanof
98 Wood Technology Epoxy Sealants, Rot Repair, Richard Jagels and Borates 100 Designs Sundowner: Strong and able Mike O’Brien 21' cutter 104 Launchings…
and Relaunchings
Pages 16/17
Robin Jettinghoff
108 The WoodenBoat Review • Bronze blocks Matthew P. Murphy • Scudding Jenny Bennett • The Boyne Currach Tom Jackson • Books Received 144 Save a Classic SOJOURNER TRUTH: A Husky DoubleMaynard Bray ended Ketch of Teak
Cover: Holland, Michigan, boatbuilder Reff Reinhart designed and built the 17' 2" launch VIRGINIA PARK for outings on Lakes Macataw and Michigan—and for trailering expeditions farther afield.
Page 33 Photograph by Matthew P. Murphy
WoodenBoat (ISSN 0095–067X) is published bimonthly in January, March, May, July, September, and November in Brooklin, Maine, by WoodenBoat Publications, Inc., Jonathan A. Wilson, Chairman. Subscription offices are at P.O. Box 16958, North Hollywood, CA 91615–6958; 1–800–877–5284 for U.S. and Canada. Overseas: 1–818–487–2084. Subscription rate is $32.00 for one year (6 issues) in the U.S. and its possessions. Canadian subscription rate is $37.00, U.S. funds. Surface rate overseas is $45.00, U.S. funds per year. Periodical postage paid at Brooklin, ME 04616 and additional mailing offices. In Canada, periodical postage paid at Toronto, Ontario (Canadian periodical Agreement No. 40612608, GST Registration No. R127081008). U.S. Postmaster: Please send Change of Address (form 3579) to P.O. Box 16958, North Hollywood, CA 91615–6958 Canada Postmaster: Pitney Bowes, P.O. Box 25542, London, ON, N6C 6B2, Canada.
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