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Messabout on the Saco River in Maine.
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Going Big in Small Boats

by Peter Van Allen

For the small-craft designer Clint Chase, talking about boat excursions in Maine often leads to accounts of treks to coves and inlets of Casco Bay off Portland, Merrymeeting Bay near Bath, or any number of other islands and shores tucked away along the state’s coastline. He is an inveterate explorer, and his idea of sailing usually involves camping and some element of adventure—a wind that tests a boat’s limits, shifting tides, threatening weather. Experiences along the coast have given him a keen appreciation for the elements that go into boats of the type he has always preferred to use: light, trailerable craft that are safe and responsive under sail or oars.

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Build-Your-Own Chesapeake Sea Kayak Class in Clayton, NY

Here is a unique opportunity to build your own boat on the waterfront grounds of the Antique Boat Museum in Clayton, NY, in the midst of the beautiful 1000 Islands.

In this six-day course, each student will build a Chespeake series sea kayak. Most build the Chesapeake 17LT, as this model fits a broad range of paddlers from 130lbs to 230lbs. However, you may choose from any of the six Chesapeake single kayak models. www.clcboats.com/boatbuilding_classes/380.html

16 foot guideboat.
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The Adirondack Guideboat Today

by Ben Fuller

In 2022, Bernard W. Brock of Hague, on the west shore of Lake George, New York, took an interest in restoring a boat that had long been stored in his family’s barn. He knew that his great-great-grandfather, George Tupper, had brought the boat with him from the Adirondack Mountains when he moved to the shores of Lake George. That was in 1876, when Tupper was 30 years old, and he may have sensed opportunity in the lake’s tourist trade, where burgeoning hotels were much busier than the summer fishing and rusticating camps he had known in the mountains.

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Illustration of Black Skimmer
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Sharpie Madness

by Stan Grayson

Although I’ve always thought of myself as more or less immune to the influence of advertising, certain books have had a definite impact. Back in the mid-1980s, one such book even prompted me to violate that cardinal rule of boat selection: buy only a boat suitable for your local waters. Years ago, my local waters morphed from the shallow depths of New Jersey’s Barnegat Bay, which is perfect for centerboard catboats, to the rocky but deep waters around Marblehead, Massachusetts.

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