WoodenBoat Magazine ~ July/August 2008, Number 203
Cover: For eighty years,the Penn Yan Boat Company built boats for motor, paddle, and sail. The Swift runabout model, seen here, was introduced in 1950 and built of sheathed strip planking. Photograph by Jim Wangard
- Perfectionism & the Wooden Boat
A meditation on the ideal — Lawrence W. Cheek - Traditional Recipes
For the right boat, the paststill has a lot to offer — Wade Smith - Oscar and VANITY
Remembering New England’s last catboat fisherman — Stan Grayson - Rollover Methods
Proven ways to turn your boat — Karen Wales - The Herreshoff Buzzards Bay 30s
Four 1902 sloops simultaneously restored — Maynard Bray - Penn Yan
How a boat in a barn gave rise to eight decades of innovation — Bill Oben - STORM BAY
The return of a Tasmanian fishing smack — Bruce Stannard
- Editor’s Page
A Call for Entries - Letters
- Fo’c’s’le
The Coming Age of Sail — David Kasanof - Currents
edited by Tom Jackson - The Apprentice’s Workbench
Thinking Ahead: Things to consider beforebuilding — Greg Rössel - In Focus
The Schooner ALCYONE — photographs by Neil Rabinowitz - Designs
SpoonDrift 40: A schooner with small-boatroots — Robert W. Stephens - Launchings...
and Re-Launchings — Karen Wales - Wood Technology
Replacing Mahogany? — Richard Jagels - The WoodenBoat Review
• Sloop — Art Paine
• Milwaukee cordless drills — Doug Shumpert
• PRINCESS — Jon Wilson
• Ships and Science — Erik Ronnberg
• Books Received - Calendar of Events
- Save a Classic
ERIC: An Archer-inspired ketch by Atkin — Maynard Bray