WoodenBoat  Magazine ~ May/June 2008, Number 202

Cover and spread from WoodenBoat Magazine

Cover: The George Watson-designed cutter PEGGY BAWN was launched in Ireland 114 years ago. A recent restoration has given her the strength of a new boat, while preserving her beautiful patina. Photograph by Benjamin Mendlowitz.

Table of Contents (Contents PDF version 312kb)
  • A New Line on Strip-planking
    Using monofilament to avoid scarring planks — Steve Chapman
  • P-399: SEA HORSE
    A thoroughbred goes
    to war — George D. Jepson
  • Inlaying a Compass Rose
    Build a modern equipment case with oldworld style — Janet Collins
  • A Suit of Sails
    With no original sail plan, all the options are open — Tom Jackson
  • PEGGY BAWN
    A “functional work of art” has a new lease on life after 114 years — Joshua F. Moore
  • Multihull Pioneers
    The barnstorming aquabats who created the modern catamarans and trimarans — Jim Brown
DEPARTMENTS
  • Editor’s Page
    Tradition and Technology
  • Letters
Getting Started in Boats cover

SUPPLEMENT Insert
Getting Started in Boats Volume 10,
Doing More with Less, A Guide to Simple Annual Painting

In every issue of WoodenBoat this year, 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. Getting Started is produced for the absolute beginner.

  • Fo’c’s’le
    Hazards — David Kasanof
  • Currents
    edited by Tom Jackson
  • The Apprentice’s Workbench
    Caulking Small Boats: Part 2,
    Putting the Tools to Work — Harry Bryan
  • In Focus
    Small Boats of the WoodenBoat Waterfront — photographs by Michael Kahn
  • Designs
    Dipper: A simple outboard cruiser — Mike O’Brien
  • Launchings...
    and Re-Launchings
    Karen Wales
  • Wood Technology
    What Our Response to Salt Air Tells Us About Humidity — Richard Jagels
  • The WoodenBoat Review
    Pete Culler on Wooden BoatsBen Fuller
    • Sharp Skate sharpening jig — Karen Wales
    Year of the BoatShelly Randall
    • Books Received
  • Calendar of Events
  • Save a Classic
    PRINCEZA, a Robb Cruising Sloop built by Lymington Slipway — Maynard Bray

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