WoodenBoat Magazine ~ May/June 2008, Number 202
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.
- 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
- Editor’s Page
Tradition and Technology - Letters
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 Boats — Ben Fuller
• Sharp Skate sharpening jig — Karen Wales
• Year of the Boat — Shelly Randall
• Books Received - Calendar of Events
- Save a Classic
PRINCEZA, a Robb Cruising Sloop built by Lymington Slipway — Maynard Bray