Featured in the Sketchbook department of WoodenBoat magazine No. 284 (January/February 2022) FIN is an auxiliary performance cruiser.

Seattle’s Shell House home of 1936 Olympic gold oarsmen may be preserved.

As noted in WB No. 284 in the article accompanying Ben Fuller’s “The Maine Peapods,” David Cockey has been conducting an ongoing study to compare the shapes and performance characteristics of a variety of these classic double-ended Maine workboats.

A Colorado high school team that built a 40′ boat, and subsequently paddled it in a grueling contest on Puget Sound. The race, called the Seventy48, is a contest for human-powered boats, so-named because it covers 70 miles in 48 hours.

From 1906 to 1913, the boats of the German Sonder class competed in international regattas organized to foster friendship among various countries—and particularly between the United States and Germany. These contests, described in WoodenBoat No. 284 (January/February 2022) resulted in more than 100 American-designed and -built Sonder boats.

The power cruiser LONGIDIENUS is long, lean, and light—and trailerable.

Dust collection has come a long way in the past few decades. It was once common to have mounds of dust piling up around milling tools—planers, jointers, and tablesaws. Benchtops, however, don’t commonly have solidly engineered dust-collection solutions. And hand-sanding at the bench can produce a significant amount of fine dust over the course of a day. Oneida Air of Syracuse, New York, an industry leader in woodshop dust collection, has recently released a product, the BenchTop DC, aimed specifically at this problem.

This 3-D animation is of the concept boat BIG BOY, a simple diesel-powered cruiser meant for a couple to travel the inside loop—the Hudson River, canals, and Intracoastal Waterway. Featured in the Sketchbook department of WoodenBoat magazine No. 279 (March/April 2021).