Too darn hot? You need the cool new issue of WaterCraft – in the mail to subscribers from 18 June and in the better UK newsagents from 25 June.
• OUR CHANGING TIMES – Kathy Mansfield visits Peter Freebody’s, the boatyard which led the renaissance of traditional Thames rivercraft and still inspires today: Click to see
• SPRITSAIL SKIPPER – While down in the estuary, the traditional Thames barges with their lofty rigs are still sailing today. Chris Martin tells how he became a master: Click to see
• ON THE ROAD – Cat Holman starts her small boat season with a micro-adventure, trailing the family’s home-built fishing lugger from Cornwall across the EU to Greece: Click to see
• BUILD YOUR OWN 30′ (9.1M) JUNK RIGGER – Paul Gartside updates the experimental minimalist voyager of his youth for today’s youthful optimists – of all ages: Click to see
• FIRST HOME BUILD – In New Zealand with skills he learned at the UK’s Boat Building Academy, Mark Dumble offers a ‘Kiwi’s Take’ on a Gartside Outboard Launch: Click to see
• BUILDING DART – Despite the isolation of Covid lockdowns, John Floutier designs and his friends all help him to build a modern canoe yawl for small boat voyaging: Click to see
• THE SHOCK OF THE OLD, PART 34 – Moray MacPhail’s long-running series on refining traditional rigs reaches the Finish Line looking forwards – to the headsails: Click to see
• PLUS…
In Grand Designs, Paul Fisher of Selway Fisher Design presents a comfortable little pocket cruiser inspired by the skipjacks of Chesapeake Bay • Naval architect Ian Nicolson recommends the safety and simplicity of the plank bowsprit • Mike Dixon, the new Small Boat Secretary at the OGA previews their summer gatherings • In Beautiful Peagreen Boats, Geoff Bowker on boats in build at the BBA while Moray MacPhail helps the family of the late Iain Oughtred find his forgotten designs – and looks forward to the English Raid.
Founded in 1997 by Pete Greenfield, previously editor of Classic Boat and The Boatman, WaterCraft magazine is an independent international bi-monthly. It’s aimed at the boat enthusiasts who want to do it, not dream about it, presenting appealing boat designs from around the world and practical articles about all aspects of boatbuilding, in the boatyard and in the backyard. WaterCraft regularly features wooden boats and ‘green’ boats, with plans for home boatbuilders in every issue. WaterCraft looks at tradition for information, not replication and to the future for inspiration and innovation.