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www.woodenboat.net.nz An electronic publication for those who enjoy building, owning, refitting or reading about wooden boats for use under sail, power and oars.

Visit and join the All Volunteer Yacht Club. An award winning boating site, offering fun online and an e-zine with nautical jokes, trivia and much more!

Boatbuilders and designers on the web, highlighting innovations in both small and large powerboat design, showcasing great boatbuilding projects by amateurs and professionals, and providing access to resources, materials, and inspirational sites.

Links to all things Boating - Take a look

Lots of boating links.  Take a look: https://www.boatowners.com/

Brad Clarke is a boatbuilder and webmaster of Brad's Boat Pages.  He is also a Jr. High School teacher in Beaumont Alberta who submitted a wonderful article to this magazine

Classic Boatworks of Maine Where we build, restore and repair classic wood boats. Marshall and Jo Duhaime, Jr. These fine folks will give you a free set of pram plans just for visiting their site!

The well known anti fouling paint https://www.copperpoxy.com/Home2.html

https://cruisenews.net/ Guide to Sailing and Cruising Stories

Dudley Dix Yacht Designs has boat plans for all sizes, from the 8ft Dixi Dinghy stitch & glue yacht tender to the Hout Bay 70 cruiser, of wood, plywood, fiberglass composite, steel and aluminum, of traditional to very modern styling, monohull or multihull, powerboat or sailboat and in round bilge, multi-chine or radius chine hull forms. https://www.dixdesign.com

Franks boat building and polytarp sail making page The German version        The Links page Frank Ellinghaus describes building his plywood sailing/rowing dinghy in detail and with many pictures. He does also provide information about rigging his boat and fast sailmaking from cheap polytarp with carpet tape and boltropes.

Flying Tadpole Productions is Tim Fatchen's wonderful tribute to his Bolger Light Schooner.  Also featured are other Bolger boats.

Gator Boats is a new site by Henry Corley.   His designs, however, are old.  These modern versions of traditional swamp boats, are not fancy, and they are not complicated, and they are not hard to build.   As a bonus, the plans are not expensive either. https://www.gatorboats.com/index.html

Gavin Atkin has a great web page with Free boat plan sources as well as other free boat related stuff.  Write to him at: gmatkin@clara.net. and ask him about the boat design discussion group which he moderates on https://www.onelist.com.   https://home.clara.net/gmatkin/design.htm

Jerry Estes at Common Sense Boats sells plans by Phil Bolger and others including my friend Dave Nichols. He also carries kits and supplies  https://www.common-sense-boats.com/

Jim Michalak is one of the best around. His designs are relatively easy to build, but are packed with performance. His web pages are informative, and archived.  All this and he practically gives the plans away.  https://www.apci.net/~michalak/

Joe McWilliams does an eclectic web page with lots of designs you won't see anywhere else.  https://euler.sfasu.edu/  Be sure to see his "Shanty Boat" page : https://euler.sfasu.edu/Shantyboats/index.html

Larry Henry lives in Palm Bay Florida where he presides over an eclectic webpage with lots of links.  His "little harbor on the net" is a great resource for home boat builders and future home boat builders

Sailing around Great Britain in a 14ft. open boat.

What can I say?  John Kohnen does the "Mother of all Maritime Links" site which is the last word in links, and should be your first stop https://www.boat-links.com/

Eric Luna is compiling information about New Jersey maritime history for a book he is writing.  Try the Main Page, and don't miss his Steam Bending page. Good info - great illustrations, too.

North Beach Design Limited

Matthew, Agnes, and Fletcher's great Homepages

S Fishwick Small Boat Designs 1 St Marys Walk, St Albans, Herts GB-AL4 9PD Simon Fishwick designs sailing canoes and small sailing multihulls for stitch and glue construction.

Simplicity Boats is a put together by David Beede who has built Dave Carnell's $200 sailboat, and Herb McLeod's OSS.  He has also contributed a great article to this magazine.

Does a Fly Fishing, Drift Boat Fishing, Whitewater Kayaking, Canoeing or a Deer Hunting trip around the alpine lakes and rivers of New Zealand sound like your idea of a great time? Is a relaxed & personalised tour your style?

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	Uncle John's General Store Offers a "Canoe Style Boat Kit, The Classic Cajun Pirogue".  Claimed to the be the easiest boat to build ever. They also have an all around skiff kit.  Read: The Adventures of Mike https://www.unclejohns.com/
Vela Latina Lateen Sails & Traditional Navigation
For restoration of traditional wood boats using modern materials, or for new boat commisions under 20', see Reed Hubbard at Wood Boat Revival

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