With Musings on a Lateen.There was once a lonely Lug who didnt know what he was missing until he met Jib. He sailed to windward, off the beam and dead...
Minggu, 31 Januari 2016
Our Schooner Race on Shearwater 45 Apella
The 25th running of the Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race proved to be a well-run and memorable event. The weatherman came close to creating big problems...
Ellies got wheels
I bought Ellie a new trailer this weekend. A local boat shop had several left over trailers from a recent boat show that were on sale for $100 off.The...
Messing About with Oysters
Yesterdays TSCA Hood Canal Oyster Messabout at Twanoh State Park was absolutely wonderful, with good friends, perfect weather, a variety of boats, and...
Chris Morejohns history of Hells Bay Boatworks beginning till 2001
The word technical flats skiff did not exist when we launched our first skiff. At that time the game plan and goal for Hal and Flip was to build a very...
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Lovely Wooden Blocks
Quite a while ago I decided that I wanted Lovely Wooden Blocks on my Navigator. I finally got around to estimating how many I would need. ...
Reminder for OkoumeFest
OkoumeFest is only a few days away, on May 18th. If you want to see or sail the Paper Jet and live within reach of the Annapolis area, this could be your...
Design 2088 Bolle V
This 6-meter racing yacht was built by the Yachtwerft Hans Wirz of Steinbach/Bodensee, Switzerland. She is double planked of mahogany with white...
Sabtu, 30 Januari 2016
WANTED
You know how many marinas there are in the Sacramento Delta? A lot, let me tell you. And Ive called nearly every one in search of our elusive,...
Sail Repair
In Webb Chiles excellent book, Storm Passage, he tells the tale of nearing the end of his first solo circumnavigation in a boat that is sinking. In addition...
Bristol Bay Gillnetter
This salmon fishing boat was known by several names. In San Francisco, California it was a Sacramento River salmon boat. In Astoria, Oregon they called...
Postingan Populer
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I have recently added two new radius chine plywood designs to our range and wrote about them on this blog. Here are updates on both boats. Y... -
Mike Vermeersch in Ravenna Ohio turned over his Didi 950 hull a couple of weeks ago and sent me a video of the process. He turned the hull ...
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Heres what the Hogfish looks like today after 26,000 miles of ocean sailing. The Hogfish Maximus was designed and built in Titusville Flori... -
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Tomorrow morning, before I take off for work, Im going to spend an hour or two so I can clean and organize the shop now that the metal work ... -
The 36th annual Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival was magnificent. Port Townsends Wooden Boat Festival is the most education-packed and in...
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Ole Ehlert bought plans from us in 2006 to build a Didi 26 for himself in Kiel, Germany. It took Ole 6 years to build his boat because he li... -
The Sail 4 Cancer charity in UK has a Didi Cruise-Mini that has been donated to their cause and is available for sale. This is a cruising ve... -
Two months ago, the Doryman voyage ethereal could be found in Olympia, WA setting forth on a trip to be remembered. The Stone Horse, Belle S... -
I didnt expect myself to be talking to the old man, the designer himself, bouncing my dumb ideas off him and hearing the edge of concern in ... -
There appears to be considerable interest in my posts about the boats being built to our Didi 950 design. This is a radius chine plywood des...
