WoodenBoat magazine’s Getting Started In Boats
Elements of Sailing
Volume 26 of Getting Started in WB No. 217.
by Captain Dave Bill
Photographs by Don Sorterup
Download Points of Sail. (PDF)
Oars, Oarlocks, and Rowing
Volume 19 of Getting Started in WB No. 211.
Shaw and Tenney’s step-by-step leathering instructions. (PDF, updated)
Boating Safety Gear
Volume 16 of Getting Started in WB No. 208.
So you have your boat—now what?
by Ben Fuller, Illustrations by Elayne Sears
Required Equipment Checklist (pdf)
File a Float Plan (pdf)
More Home Boatshops
Thanks to all who sent us photos and descriptions of home boatshops. You can read about three of our picks in Volume 12 of Getting Started in WB No. 204.
Here are more great home boatshops that we thought you’d like to see.
Here’s a stock list (PDF) to help you organize your own boatbuilding project. If your project involves a lot of pieces, you may want to print out more than one copy.
Produced for the absolute beginner
All of us who read WoodenBoat are passionate about our craft, whether building, rowing, paddling, sailing, power-boating, or simply working on our boats.
Do you remember when you were first introduced to boats, and when your passion began to develop? Now you have a way to share this passion, and to bring this same level of joy to new people.
In every issue of WoodenBoat, we will include the new supplement, Getting Started. This publication is produced for your family, friends, and neighbors, members of local community groups, colleagues at work — the people you know who should be inspired into boats and boating.
Past copies of Getting Started are available in past issues of WoodenBoat, and as full-color PDFs from the WoodenBoat Store Digital Download site.
Click here to view a sample digital edition of Volume I of Getting Started in Boats.
Dictionary — We are building a dictionary of words or expressions that occur in Getting Started.