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Other People’s Boats: How Most People “Get Started”

Here are ideas for how you, at any age and in any location, can get aboard to sail, get your hands dirty maintaining, or garner skills for building before you ever think of digging into your wallet to own a boat. The best boats for a beginner, truly, are Other People’s Boats.

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The Snekke

Norway’s ubiquitous double-ended motor launch, the snekke (aka sjekte, or kogg), evolved from open sail-powered fishing boats. Today, as recreational boats, they have a variety of configurations: Some are protected by wraparound windshields, others have small cabins, and many retain their simple workboat layouts.
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The Hardanger Fartøyvernsenter

The Hardanger Fartøyvernsenter—Ships Preservation Center—is located on Norway’s Hardangerfjord in the town of Norheimsund. It began as an effort to restore one vessel, MATHILDE, and has grown to become one of Europe’s principal vessel restoration establishments.

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BLOODHOUND
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BLOODHOUND through the Ages

by Scott Kennedy

In 2019, while wandering among the towering shelves of the library at the Robbe & Berking Yachting Heritage Center in Flensburg, Germany (see WB No. 258), I spotted an interesting model yacht vaguely resembling one of the third Marquess of Ailsa’s most famous yachts, BLOODHOUND—a William Fife II design to which I have been inextricably drawn for three decades.

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