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W1: January/February 1997 – SOLD OUT
Sailing Roxane • Oughtred Acorn Skiff • Falmouth working boats • Gear for gaffers: bowsprits • Deck seams with modern compounds • Brock 24 • Using Epoxies • Grand Designs: Buehler Cowhorn, Selway-Fisher Tosher, Wolstenholme Cockle.
W2: March/April 1997 – SOLD OUT
Oulton Week • Electric auxiliaries • Sailing the Brock 24 • Building a Pocket Gaffer • Bowsprit fittings • Making breasthooks • Repairing glued spars • Sailing the Picarooner • Building the Cockle dinghy -1 • Grand Designs: Oughtred Eun Mara, Dias Brigadier.
W3: May/June 1997 – SOLD OUT
Aboard the Matthew • Building a Chebacco boat • Sailing the Amethyst bawley • Building the Royal Shallop • Repairing topsides • Sailing the Little Auk • Taking lines off a model • Building Cockle -2 • Grand Designs: Beuhler Button, Selway-Fisher Beaumaris
W4: July/August 1997
Thames Trad Boat Rally • Sailing the Finesse 24 • Restoring Maid of Lorn • Davey & Co • Stemhead fittings • Dee fishing boats • Sailing St. Laurence Skiff • Building Lady Betty -1 • Farrow & Chambers • Half models • Grand Designs: Wolstenholme barge yacht
W5: September/October 1997
Wooden Boat Show • Sailing Memory • McGruer Innovations • Making hollow spars • Marking waterline • Lady Betty – 2 • Gear for Gaffers: masts • Repairing stems and sterns • Sailing Mallard • Grand Designs: Devlin Nancy’s China, Willow Bay Boats’ Shilling.
W6: November/December 1997
Sailing North Quay 17 • Schooner holidays • Boatbuilding on the Thames • Lugger Lessons • Laying canvas decks • Tela dayboat • Gear for gaffers: stays • Building a modern clinker pram -1 • Grand Designs: Dias Marsh Hawk, Gartside cutter
W7: January/February 1998 – SOLD OUT
Sailing Crabber 22 • Scaffies • School for boatbuilders • Sailing Beaumaris 24 • Commonsense yacht repair • Sense & centreboards • Building clinker pram -2 • Sailing Norfolk Oyster 16 • Grand Designs: Selway-Fisher canoes; Wolstenholme Mayfly.
W8: March/April 1998 – SOLD OUT
BB11 keelboats • Sailing Pintail • Peter Freebody • Fitting out pocket gaffer • Gear for gaffers: stays – 2 • Steaming ribs • Building the Chaisson semi-dory -1 • Sailing Spoonbill • Tips for boatbuilders • Grand Designs: Oughtred faering; Burnett cruising gaffer
W9: May/June 1998
Restoring a Humber yawl • Sailing Sea Otter • Chaisson dory -2 • Chatham Directory of Inshore C raft • Gear for gaffers: stays – 2 • Sailing Suffolk Beach Punt & Seahopper • Building Marsh Hawk -1 • Grand Designs: Moss Sea Otter; Norman Smith Pond Skater
W10: July/August 1998 – SOLD OUT
Eun Mara yawl • Broads yacht Dragonfly • Dragonfly blocks • Sailing Lune Whammel • Building a Golant Gaffer • Building Chaisson dory-3 • Bolger’s Alert • Building Marsh Hawk 2 • Douarnenez 98 • Grand Designs: Gartside centreboard sloop & tender
W11: September/October 1998 – SOLD OUT
Dixon Kemp steel yacht • Sailing Drascombe Lugger • Tasma VI • Grey Seal • Pocket Gaffers • Lone Wolf • Coracles • Geodesic designs • Chaisson dory 4 • Marsh Hawk 3 • Marking & measuring devices • Grand Designs: Pete Culler’s traditional USA designs.
W12: November/December 1998- SOLD OUT
Traditional boat charter • Sailing Kittiwake • Building Mehalah • Paying deck seams • 3-mast Lugger • Winkle Brig • Peter Gregson • Chaisson dory 5 • Marsh Hawk 4 • Grand Designs: Selway Fisher Sapphire steam launch; Gartside Itchen Ferry cruising gaffer.
W13: January/February 1999 – SOLD OUT
Sailing Willow Bay Shilling • Make your own sails • Golant Gaffer
• Gear for gaffers: backstays • Chaisson dory 6 • Finishing Marsh Hawk • Homemade clamps • Sailing Marsh Hawk • Orkney Yole • Corribee no 1 • Grand Designs: Dias School Ship
W14: March/April 1999 – SOLD OUT
Hereward: Cardnell Double-ender • Sea kayak • New wooden Folkboat • Gear for gaffers: mast fittings • Fitting out a Golden Hind • Building Wharram Melanesia • Cirrus Broads yacht • Boat Barn • Chaisson Dory 7 • Grand Designs: Hesp pocket gaffer.
W15: May/June 1999 – SOLD OUT
Sailing Romilly • Balancing a lugger • Stitch-&-glue Heron • Electric launch Polly • Sailing the Catspaw • Making your own oars • Gear for gaffers: gaff saddles • Sailing the Eun Mara • Building Eun Mara • Grand Designs: Selway-Fisher: Port Louis pocket gaffer.
W16: July/August 1999 – SOLD OUT
Sailing the Crabber 17 • Drascombe Mods • Charlie Ward steel barge • John Welsford’s Navigator • Haven Twelve-and-a-Half • Sharpening cutting tools • Natural knees • Building Eun Mara 2 • Grand Designs: Davis ply cruiser; Gartside gaff cutter
W17: September/October 1999 – SOLD OUT
Amateur Boatbuilding Awards • Fitting out a Golden Hind 31 -2 • Dulcie: a long-lived ex-lugger • Rot & how to prevent it • Building the Eun Mara yawl • Building the Sandpiper Skiff • Sailing a kit-built dayboat • Grand Designs: Wolstenholme Swallow
W18: November/December 1999 – SOLD OUT Pilot cutter Alpha • Cornish lugger Guide • Fitting a junk rig to a gaff ketch • Making bits of boats: grabrails, cleats, gaff jaws • Jack Chippendale makes long drill bits • Building a boat for open-water rowing • Eun Mara 4 • Grand Designs: Selway Fisher Baltic Lugger
W19: January/February 2000 – SOLD OUT
Sailing Yarmouth 23 • Phil Bolger • Gear for gaffers: Boom not Bust • Appledore 16 • Taking the lines off • Sailing Tideway 12 • Forehatch for a Golant Gaffer • Piper One Design • Eun Mara 5 • Vogalonga in Venice • Grand Designs: Pfannenschmidt catboat
W21: May/June 2000 – SOLD OUT
Adrian Noyes’ traditional wooden boats • Building a steam launch • Sailing a Jolly Boat • Making clinker planking look right • Building a pocket cruiser in Oman • Gear for gaffers: boom end fittings • Eun Mara 7 • Grand Designs: Home build Romilly; Dias cat-yawl
W22: July/August 2000 – SOLD OUT
Wolstenholme Barge Yacht • The First Sailors: canoe-form craft of pre-history • Clinker masterclass • Building the Ebbtide • Building and rowing the Annapolis Wherry • Electric power, pedal power • Building Romilly 1 • Grand Designs: Wharram cargo catamaran
W23: September/October 2000 – SOLD OUT
The Great Glen Raid • Phil Bolger electric launch • Sailing Sanderling • Finesse 28 • Sprite & Otter; two rowing skiffs from kits • Stone Age Sailors 2 • Strip plank primer • Selway Fisher Pinky • Building Romilly 2 • Grand Designs: Whisstock Deben 5 Tonner
W24: November/December 2000 – SOLD OUT
Dysart Yawls • Building a Broads classic in wood • Building Ebbtide 3 • Building a cruising gaffer • Blue Collar Boats: American skiffs • Phil Bolger on electric boats • Building Romilly 3 • Grand Designs: Wolstenholme electric launch; Gartside one design
W25: January/February 2001
Living aboard in the Med • Sailing the Cove Boat • What it costs to build your own boat • Gear for Gaffers: Blocks • Time & Tide Dutch dayboat • Building Romilly 4 • Linnet & Bee: rowing skiffs to build • Grand Designs: 3-masted Nigel Irens Expedition Boat •
W26: March/April 2001
Boating holidays in the USA • Building a Buehler schooner • Painting Boadicea • Norway’s Hardanger Fartoyvernsenter • Building an Aleutian Baidarka • Building Romilly 5 • Sailing Alerion • Bright finishes on test • Grand Designs: Hesp family daysailer.
W27: May/June 2001- SOLD OUT
Boating Holidays • Henwood Thames Launch • Building a traditional Orkney 3-sail yole • Sailing the Character Boats range • Building Gartside Itchen Ferry • Building Petite Brise • Building Romilly 6• Grand Designs: Oughtred faering; Selway-Fisher launch
W28: July/August 2001
Sailing North Quay 22 gaff cruiser • Megin dinghy • Building Ebbtide 4 • Itchen Ferry 2 • Hope in Ireland: the late John Kerr’s last boating holiday • Sailing the Ha’penny • Curved Coamings• Grand Designs: Swallow Boats Osprey; Paul Gartside liveaboard motorsailer
W29: September/October 2001 – SOLD OUT
Great Glen Raid • Orwell Corinthian • Gear for Gaffers: Untangling the mainsheet • Building Bolger Micro • Semaine du Golfe • Sailing the 3-masted Nigel Irens dayboat • Building Whilly Boat • Grand Designs: Wolstenholme Workstar, Welsford Whaler
W30: November/December 2001- SOLD OUT
3 x16-footers : Shetland One Design; Coquina II; Selway-Fisher Islay • Womack Classic: Buttifant Broads • Houdini: Welsford sea-going dinghy • Six Metres • Mill Creek skiff • Boring the stern tube • Grand Designs: Bolger Amherst galley; Selway Fisher Martlet
W31: January/February 2002
Wolstenholme / Henwood Electric River Launch • Building a Thames Whiff • Gear for gaffers sheeting • Applying gold leaf • Boring stern tube • Kittiwake Yawl • Cove Boat. • Shearwater • Grand Designs: Gilles Montaubin’s Lili, winner of 2001 Great Glen Raid.
W32: March/April 2002
Electric daysailers: Tony Dias Bittersweet & Venla, a home-built trailer-sailer • Tomboy, restored gaff cutter • Birch plywood for boatbuilding • Building the Ebbtide • Second and third thoughts about centreboards •: Grand Designs Tom Dunderdale’s Apple
W33: May/June 2002 – SOLD OUT
Picarooner • Plume catboat • Chris Waite’s home-designed pocket • Designer Paul Fisher builds a • Thames electric saloon launch • Bolger longship • Hand spliced standing rigging • Grand Designs: Wolstenholme pocket cruiser; Gartside flashboats & rowboats
W34: July/August 2002 – SOLD OUT
North Quay 30 • Scottish Island class• sailing boat in French canals • Trailing & sailing to Pin Mill • Sailing the Swale Pilot• Building Laurent Giles motor cruiser • Buildings a trailer from a kit • Grand Designs: Oughtred Ness yawl; Bolger water-ballasted sharpie
W35: Sep/Oct 2002
Great Glen Raid • Kit-build Romilly • Bolger St Valery lugger • Sailing canoes: Horton Rob Roy MacGregor & Rushton Princess • Buckler’s Hard • A proper boatbuilder’s bandsaw * Grand Designs: Wolstenholme Broads yacht & Selway-Fisher sailing canoes.
W36: Nov/Dec 2002
Brendan: Dutch cat • Raid Finland• Friendship sloop• Building Ebbtide • Building a faering in the front room • Gondola in Amsterdam • Douarnenez festival • Rutland Water • Grand Designs: Bolger motor cruiser; Welsford smallest cruising boat
W37: Jan/Feb 2003 First submarine in 1621 • Cornish Shrimper • Sailing in Rock • Haven 12.5 in Finland • Ballasted sailing canoe • Bossoms electric launch • Welsh coracles • Carbon spars for trad boats • Grand Designs: Dias daysailer; Yachting monthly classic cruising yachts.
W38: Mar/Apr 03
Wooden Boatbuilders Trade Assn • Arctic Tern dayboat • Building a traditional clinker dinghy • Adrian Noyes Beer lugger • Malcom Darch ship models • National Maritime Museum Cornwall • Grand Designs: Oughtred Egret-style sharpie; Stevenson Weekender.
W39: May/June 03
class=”txty”>Isles of Scilly dayboat• McGruer 8-Metre • Severn salmon boats • Building an American trawler yacht • Build Canadian canoe • Hitchhiking to the Volga • Miss Simplette • Daniel Z Bombigher • Grand Designs: Bolger Sea Bird ; Selway-Fisher NZ steam launch.
W40: July/August 03
launch Consuta • Photographing boats • Oyster dayboat • ‘Thames Trad’ • Sail Caledonia raid • Restoring Fenwick Williams US sharpie • Building Celtic lugger • Epoxy for beginners • Nicolson: Design own boat • Grand Designs: ethnic double canoe
W41: September/October 03
Alice Driscoll sails Lymington Scow • Judy Brickhill sails Stiffkey Cockle Amateur Boatbuilding Awards • la Semaine du Golfe • Devon Lugger • Building Whilly Boat • Epoxy 2 • Nicolson on designing own boat • Grand Designs: Powell canoe yawl
W42: November/December 03 – SOLD OUT
Bolger: Easier backyard boatbuilding • Backyard boatbuiling in Moscow • Building &Sailing Irens Expedition boat • Where to build • Building Gartside pocket cruiser • Building S-F tosher • Epoxy 3 • Grand Designs: Bolger miniature Queen Mab
W43: January/February 04 – SOLD OUT
Moonshadow: Broads cruiser-racer • Yare Navigation Race • Swallowboats sail & oar kits • Building & sailing Celtic Lugger • Kayaks to kit boats • Fitting new engine in MG classic • Epoxy 4 • Grand Designs: Welsford Walkabout; Dudley Dix Cape Henry gaff cutter.
W44: March/April 04
Francois Vivier traditional-modern designs • Norlandbat • Peter Feebody steam launch rebuild • Minimalist little skiff from Munich • Traditional Scottish Zulus for today • New engine 2 • Epoxy 5 • Grand Designs: Gartside Expedition Boat for inland voyage.
W45: May/June 04
Sailing Wharram Tiki 21 ● Ullapool Boatbuilders ● Sjektes and the City • Swedish Pilot Boats • Boatbuilding Academy • Skin-on-frame Umiak ● Building sailing canoe • Epoxy 6 • Nicolson on design • Grand Designs: Swallow Boats Storm 17; Montaubin raid boat
W46: July/August-04
World Pilot Gig Championships ● Sailing Dias Arey’s Pond Daysailer • Mystic seaport boat plans • Lobster kit boat • Building Wolstenholme Coot ● Saltern’s Tela • Epoxy 7: Q & A • Nicolson on design • Grand Designs: Welsford Penguin cruising yacht & tender
W47: September/October-04- SOLD OUT
Sail Caledonia raid • Sailing French Seil dayboat • Beale Park & Amateur Boatbuilding Awards ● Building Oughtred Buillemot • Sailing North Quay 19 & Character Boats Post Boat • Trailing 1 • Building Cape Henry 1 • Grand Designs: Selway Fisher junk rig cruiser.
W48: November/December-04 – SOLD OUT
Brest & Douarnenez festivals • Building Swallow dayboat • Atlantic Challenge • The Boat in a Bag • Raid Finland • Grimsay Boat Project • Trailing 2 • Renewing yacht rudder • Building Cape Henry 2 • Grand Designs: Wolstenholme Orient steam launch
W49 January/February-05
Gilles Montaubin’s Wabi • Norfolk’s Rev Nev • Len Slater’s cale model dinghies • Building a Viking ship – in Hounslow • Building the S-F junk rig cruiser • Jangadas • Trailing 3 • Grand Designs: Mark Fitzgerald sharpie Floridays: Oughtred Skerrie skiff
W50: March/April-05
Steam on the Thames • Building a steam launch 1 • Sailing Wolstenholme Swallow • Building clinker Swallow • Sailing Rik Homan’s Elisabeth • Building Viking ship 2 • Building Cape Henry 3 • Trailing 4 • Grand Designs: three Gartside steam launches
W51: May/June-05
The l’eaudown on French water-ballasted dayboats • Building a dinghy in a top-floor apartment • Sailing the Norseboat • Edey & Duff Whaleboat • Trailing 5 • Steam launch fit out • Hollow spars • Repairing strip plank • Grand Designs: Drascombe Drifter 22
W52 July/August-05
Sailing Kittiwake 16 • la Semaine du Golfe • Velalonga: sailing Venice’s lagoon • Current Thinking on Electric Boats • Restoring a beaver stern launch – and a Cornish pocket gaffer – twice • Trailing 5 – in Europe • Grand Designs: Welsford Pathfinder cruising dinghy
W53 September/October-05- SOLD OUT
Swallow Boats Storm 19 • Beale Park show review & Amateur Boatbuilding Awards • Vogalonga: rowing Venice’s canals • Up & Over: launching the Viking ship • Building a traditional Irish currach • Nicolson • Grand Designs: Swallow Boats pedal-powered skiff
W54 November/December-05
Clinker plywood, strip plank or cold moulding? • Building a Ness Boat in Australia • Raid boat Little Nell • What’s a ‘raid’? • Making a yuloh • Building Cape Henry 4 • Grand Designs: Wolstenholme electric lake launch; Chesapeake Light Craft sailing pram kit
W55 January/February-06
Hybrid diesel-electric auxiliary drive for Wylo cruising yacht • Restoring Heron dinghy • Building a Cradle Boat • Building a baby New York Bay sandbagger • Cape Cutter 19 • Sail Caledonia • Grand Designs: Ed Burnett gaff cutter; Gartside 4-seasons motor boat
W56 March/April-06
Raids: the first 10 years • Sailing a kit-built Wharram cat • Bob Budge: Freebody’s master craftsman • Building a traditional faering… and a modern sailing canoe • Tan Tingo sailing dory • Building Cape Henry 5 • Grand Designs: Swallow Boats Sea Raider
W57 May/June-06- SOLD OUT
Reviewing 3 double enders: Swallowboats’ Storm 17; Simmons & Broome’s Wee Seal; David Moss Sea Otter 25. • Steaming into France • Gubby’s Heir Island Sloop • S-F Pinky Ketch • Sailing canoe 2 • Grand Designs: Selway Fisher clinker ply Thames skiffs
W58 JulyAugust-06
Sailing the Drascombe Drifter 22… and Rick Powell’s sailing canoe • Monarch: miniature paddle steamer • Thames Trad Boat Rally • Douarnenez • Building a clinker canoe • Grand Designs: Lancaster Jones steam paddlers; Bolger pedal powered stern wheeler
W59 September/October-06
Beale Park show & Amateur Boatbuilding Awards • Sail Caledonia • Sailing the Sea Raider • Sailing Longshore 19 • Building a Cornish Pilot Gig on board ship and then cutting it in half! • Building a carvel gaffer • Grand Designs: Reuel Parker Seabright Skiff
W60 November/December-06
Inspired by Bolger Mocassin • Sailing Powell pilot cutter • Building a carvel gaffer 2 • Cape Henry 6 • Sailing a lug-rigged tosher • Building a stitch & tape kit • Portsoy • Grand Designs: Francois Vivier Meaban gaff sloop; Iain Oughtred sailing canoes.
W61 January/February-07 – SOLD OUT
Sailing Meadowlark sharpie • Iain Oughtred profile • Building & sailing Oughtred Egret sharpie • Building a replica of a Cornish lug & mizzen ‘hobble boat’ in Nova Scotia • Electric outboards • Building Nutshell pram • Grand Designs: Swallow Boats BayRaider.
W62 March/April-07
John Atkin Maid of Endor • Building Cornish hobble boat 2 • Building a matched pair of stitch & tape kayaks • Sailing canoe cruising • Jigsaws for boatbuilding • Grand Designs: Wolstenholme Wherry; Dongray Limpet dinghy; Gartside Pims miniature motor launch
W63 May/June-07
Building a cruising gaffer in the backyard • Sailing the Limpet dinghy • Hobble boat 3 • Open boat cruising in Finland • Sailing the Viking boat • Building Oughtred Gannet • Grand Designs: Selway Fisher c/b cruising yacht; Walt Simmons Newfoundland Trap Skiff
W64 July/August-07 – SOLD OUT
The enduring appeal of the ‘Thames Trad’ • Mr Freebody’s Superior Slipper Launches • Sailing the BayRaider • Trad craft in Ireland • Building McGregor sailing canoe • Cape Henry 7 • Grand Designs: Francois Vivier Breton dayboat; Michael Slater Goat Island Skiff
W65 September/October-07
Sailing Shilling dayboat • The best Beale yet & Amateur Boatbuilding Awards • The Silence of the Amps: hybrid propulsion •: McGregor sailing canoe 2 • Building Duck Trap Wherry • Home-built proa • Grand Designs: Colin Cummings ‘one-piece’ dinghy
W66 November/December-07
Buttifant Broads yacht • Irens Expedition boats at Sail Caledonia • Designing & building a Humber barge yacht • Clinker ply in pictures 1 • Jobs for the Boys: Jo Moran’s young sons build Limpet kit • Grand Designs: motorboats from Selway Fisher; Gartside & Vivier
W67 January/February-08 – SOLD OUT
St Ives Jumbo lugger • International Boatbuilding Training College • Alloy planked dayboat • le Mille Sabords used boats sale • Clinker ply 2 • Limpet 2 • Getting back on board * Cape Henry 6 • Grand Designs: Oughtred canoe; J-F Garry cruising yacht
W68 March/April-08- SOLD OUT
Building strip plank Roxane • Sailing Welsford Whaler & Deben Lugger • Canada’s Silva Bay Shipyard School • Trail & sail to Greece • Designing & building a Raid boat • Clinker ply 3 • Japanese tools • Grand Designs: Campion Design Megan dinghy
W69 May/June-08 – SOLD OUT
Sailing kit-built Cormorant & Swallow Boats Trouper • Restoring 1891 yacht Kestrel • Professional strip planking: Willow Bay Shilling & Roxane 2 • Moray Flotilla • US Antique & Classic Boat Show • Grand Designs: Selway-Fisher electric saloon launch
W70 July/August-08
Boatskwl: summer boatbuilding school for teenagers • Building: Limpet 3 & Roxane 3 • Dublin Bay Water Wags in Sri Lanka • Yamato Boats: Phil Bolger in Japan; Building ply Yamato in UK • Pinky from sustainable timber • Grand Designs: Wharram Islander 39
W71 September/October-08- SOLD OUT
Beale Park show & Amateur Boatbuilding Awards • Sailing an Orkney yole up the Thames • Maine Boatbuilders’ Show • Seagoing pocket gaffer • Cape Henry 7 • Lough Neagh workboat • Model paddle boats for schools • Grand Designs: Arch Davis Penobscot 17
W72 November/December-08 – SOLD OUT
Am Bata: Scottish trad boatbuilding in school • Limpet 4 • Roxane 4 • Alan Staley builds New Blossom gaff cutter • Alistair Garland restores J-Class tender • Chesapeake Marine Designs for home builders • Grand Designs: Jay R Benford modern Friendship sloop
W73 January/February-09- SOLD OUT
Iain Oughtred Special: Sailing Acorn 15, Tammie Norrie, Gannet / Building Stickleback / Ness Yawl from Venice to Torino • Velalonga • Klassieke Schepen Dutch trad boat show • New Blossom 2 • Roxane 5 • Grand Designs: Oughtred Penny Fee & Auklet
W74 March/April-09- SOLD OUT
Small is beautiful • WBTA boat buying survey • Sailing canoe cruise in the Western Isles • Sailing Devon Yawl & Bristol Jolly Boat • kit-built Secret gaff cutter • Building Sandpiper • Grand Designs: Irens electric speedboat; Storer radical Raid boat.
W75 May/June-09
Electric power: converting 1897 launch; driving Irens speedboat • Building a kit built kayak – from scratch • Victorian catboat • Cradle boats • Roxane 6 • Sail Caledonia • Grand Designs: Wolstenholme Otter electric launch; Swallow Boats BayCruiser 20
W76 July/August-09 – SOLD OUT
Full Gartside plans for 16’ Pocket Gaffer • Sailing Devon Scaffie • New Blossom 3 • USA International Yacht Restoration School • UK Boatbuilding schools • Sunbeam OD • Phil Bolger obituary • Cooking afloat • Grand Designs: Francois Vivier Folkboat of the Future
W77 September/Ocober-09 – SOLD OUT
Beale Park show & Amateur Boatbuilding Awards • New boats at Beale • The Fall & Rise of Cornish Crabbers • Building the award-winning 3-sheets of ply skiff • Semaine du Golfe at first hand & in pictures • Roxane 7 • Grand Designs: Selway-Fisher catboat
W78 November/December-09- SOLD OUT
Gartside plans: 12′ (3.6m) rowing boat • Building a strip plank Canadian canoe • Make a razee • Sailing the Chebacco Boat • Building Chebacco outdoors 1 • Cirrus electric daysailer • Portsoy • Grand Designs: Sam Devlin Dunlin weatherproof motor cruiser
W79 January/February-10
Gartside plans: work launch • Sailing Swallow Boats BayCruiser • Scottish Coastal Rowing Project • Building SCRP St Ayles Skiff kit • Sailing Vivier Meaban • WBTA members listing • Ralph Bird obituary • Grand Designs: Welsford sea-going dayboat
W80 March/April-10 – SOLD OUT
Gartside plans: 20’ (6m) lugger • Building Cape Henry 10 • Sailing Cape Henry • Peter Freebody’s family business • BBA launch day • Light Trow in the Med • Outdoor Boat 2 • Painting & varnishing 1 • Grand Designs: Morten Olesen Norwegian sailing pram
W81 May/June-10
Gartside plans: 12’ (3.7m) outboard skiff • Acorn on the Limousin lakes • Nautique Sevres boatbuilding club • Cold-moulding Pettersson runabout • Building Weekender & Cornish Pilot Gigs • Grand Designs: Swallow Boats BayRaider 17; Selway-Fisher electric launch.
W83 September/October-10 – SOLD OUT
Beale Park Boat Show • Amateur Boatbuilding Awards • Sailing gunter Roxane, Irens BJ17 & BayRaider 17 • Build your own Gartside pram • Building rowing skiff • Scottish Coastal Rowing Project • Robin Hood boats • Grand Designs: Welsford cruising dinghy
W84 November/December-10- SOLD OUT
English Raid • Wolstenholme Kite • Gartside plans: gaff dayboat • Building Gartside cruising yacht • Open Gunwales • Pedalling the Avon with a Hobie Drive • Grand Designs: Vivier dayboat; Selway-Fisher keelboat
W85 January/February-11- SOLD OUT
Cordless Canoe Challenge • Sailing the Crabber 26 • Gartside plans: 12′ (3.6m) motor launch • Building Safe Harbour keelboat • And a Norfolk crab boat • And the Baird Witch Project • Grand Designs: Scottish Dayboat; Nancy’s China pocket cruiser
W86 March/April-11
White Swan: Buttifant Broads yacht • Pen-Hir: Vivier’s Folkboat of the Future • Willow Bay dayboats • Pplans: Nova Scotia Pleasure Dory • Outdoor Boat • Long Oars • Witch 2 • Grand Designs: Wolstenholme Breakdeck Motorboat
W87 May/June – 11- SOLD OUT
Nestaway Boats • Preview: la Semaine du Golfe • Sailing the Stevenson Weekender • Paul Gartside plans: lug-rig sailing dinghy • Building a Lerret • Witch 3 • Laid deck • Preview: Beale Park Boat Show • Cordless Canoe Rules • Grand Designs: Sam Devlin mini motor-sailer.
W88 July/August – SOLD OUT
American Pinky built from British timbers • Visiting the French festivals • Paul Gartside plans: coastal rowing skiff • Fit out your dinghy • Vac bagging a strip-planker • Repairing clinker ply • Thames Trad Boat Rally • Grand Designs: Selway Fisher slipper launch.
W89 September/October – 2011 – SOLD OUT
Oughtred dayboats gather in the Netherlands • Beale Park Boat Show + ABBA • Cordless Canoe Challenge • Paul Gartside plans: traditional outboard skiff • Fit out your dinghy 2 • Skin on Tin • Skin on Frame • Character Boats’ Coastal Whammel • Grand Designs: Iain Oughtred Kotik pocket cruiser.
W90 November/December – 2011- SOLD OUT
Sail & Oar in Scotland: Portsoy & Sail Caledonia • ABBA winner John Milnes’ Tammie Norrie • Paul Gartside full plans: pocket gaffer • David Moss: Custom Boatbuilder • Building a Peterboat • Skin on Frame 2: The Skin! • Building CCC winner King Canute • Grand Designs: Roger Dongray Golant Ketch & Iain Oughtred/Jordan Boats Wemyss Skiff
W91 January/February-2012
Multimono • Peter H Spectre revisits the Thames * The English Raid goes east * Over 180 years of Jeckells Sails * Craftsman Craft gentleman’s Launch • Gartside plans: Falmouth oar & sail oar workboat • BayCruiser 23 • Building pocket gaffer Pickle • The Botes of the Eo estuary • ABBA & CCC 2012 rules • Grand Designs: Swallow Boats car-topper sailing canoe
W92 March/April 2012
Venice Raid • Morgan & Bristol 22 • Gartside plans: traditionally built Gentleman’s Launch • Building pocket gaffer Pickle 2 • Kheya the kit-built dinghy • The Lady Varnishes • Great Baltic Dinghy Passage from Poland to Sweden • Cordless Canoe Challenge 2012 • Grand Designs: Selway Fisher pocket cruiser Pickle & Salmo 15 kit-built lugger.
W93 May/June 2012
Entre Terre et Mer • Dolphin of Leith • Gartside plans: Sjogin II Kloster-style gaff sloop • Sailing Crabber 12 • Building Aber • Making a yacht rudder • Remembering master boatbuilder Jack Chippendale • Fliptail CCC entry • Bristol 27 review • Beale Park Boat Show preview • Grand Designs: Francois Vivier Ilur dayboat updated.
W94 July/August 2012
EJade NZ One-Design keelboat • Quoddy Pilot • Gartside plans: Dayboat on a budget • Thames Skiff Centennial 12 • Sailing Kite in Ireland • Building Kite sister ship – Part 1 • Seafly: sailing dinghy for the Lakes • Workshop: Restoring epoxy-coated spars • Thames Traditional Boat Rally preview • Grand Designs: Don Kurylko 18’ (5.5m) gaff yawl Myst
W95 September/October 2012
Beale Park Boat Show • Water Craft Makita Cordless Canoe Challenge • Amateur Boat Building Awards • Building Velociraptor… and Something Fishy • Full Gartside plans: 20’ (6m) steam canoe • Sailing Heard 25 • Shoal Waters in Essex • Royal Jubilee River Pageant • Grand Designs: Ross Lillistone sail-and-oar beachboat.
W96 November/December 2012 – SOLD OUT
English Raid • Water Craft Makita Cordless Canoe Challenge 2013 • Launching the Lugger • Building Zelva for pedal power • Four Candles • Gartside plans: 12’ catboat • Eddy Current electric launch • Golant Ketch • Grand Designs: Paul Gartside’s Slow Loris.
W97 January/February 2013 – SOLD OUT
Irish Raid • Gartside plans: Practical Outboard Launch • Nigel Irens’ Own Launch • Building Kite 2 • Egg-box Boatbuilding • Building an Uffa Fox Single Scull • Sailing the Deben Lugger in Greece • Sharpening Tools • Grand Designs: Francois Vivier’s le Maraudeur.
W98 March/April 2013
la Semaine du Golfe • Gartside plans: West Country yawl • New Zealand FireBug • Building Herreshoff tender • Adam Way Oban Skiff • Fitting out Aber • Computer-Aided Gaffer: Kite 3 • What’s the Point of Marine Paint? • Grand Designs: Selway-Fisher Skelig launch.
W99 May/June 2013
Sailing into the Arctic Circle • Gartside plans: Cruising Gaff Cutter • Modern Viking dayboat • Building plywood sailing canoe • Australia’s Wooden Boat Festival • Computer-Aided Gaffer: Kite 4 • Beale Park preview • Grand Designs: Deer Isle Koster Boat.
W100 July/August 2013 – SOLD OUT
The Remarkable Story of the St Ayles Skiff • Gartside plans: Mast Ironwork • Building & Sailing the Golant Ketch • Sailing the International 12 • New Freebody slipper launch • Building Alaska • Computer-Aided Gaffer: Kite 5 • Grand Designs: Iain Oughtred tenders.
W101 September/October 2013
Beale Gets Its Buzz Back • Cordless Canoe Challenge & 2014 rules • ABBA Winners • Gartside plans: Sail & Oar Tender • Sailing the Gartside West Country Yawl • Cormoran • Pathfinder’s Progress • Computer-Aided Gaffer: 6 • Grand Designs: NQM Racing Gaffer.
W102 November/December 2013 – SOLD OUT
SkiffieWorlds 2013 • Sailing the Salcombe Ria • White Fang: Oughtred double-ender • Gartside plans: 34’ (10.4m) Motor Boat • Strip Plank Repair • Sidecar Boat • Outdoor Boat • What’s the Point of Marine Plywood? • Grand Designs: Koalen 17 Vivier Pocket Gaffer.
W103 January/February 2014
Broads River Cruiser India • Sail Caledonia • The English Raid – and more • Gartside plans: 4-Oar Rowing Skiff • Dutch sloep • Building Salcombe launch Badger • Building an Almost Traditional Thames Skiff – in Scotland • Sailing the Polish Wind Hunter 19 • Grand Designs: Selway-Fisher’s YM Senior for today’s backyard boatbuilders.
W104 March/April 2014
Professional boatbuilder’s own gaffer • Douarnenez preview • Irish hooker rebuild • Gartside plans: 24’ (7.2m) gaff cutter • The Designer Monologues No 1 • What’s the Point of CAD? • Building Coot from a CNC-cut kit • Three Cornish Punts • Nautiraid Coracle Tenders • Grand Designs: John Brooks’ easier to build Herreshoff/Haven dayboat.
W105 May/June 2014 – SOLD OUT
NQM Spitfire 18 review • Design & build modern cruising gaffer • Penbo runabout • Gartside plans: 14’ (4.3m) outboard skiff • Designer Monologues: Francois Vivier • FV’s Morbic 12 • Restoring a traditional launch • Building Conrad Natzio’s Oystercatcher • Beale Park preview • Grand Designs: William Atkin’s Rescue Minor – then and now.
W106 July/ August 2014
The boatyards of the Thames • What’s the point of traditional rigs? • Designer Monologues: Paul Gartside • Commissioning the Catbird sharpie • Strip plank for beginners • Building a wood & canvas canoe • Sailing the Cornish lugger • Cutting curves • Grand Designs: New classics – more break-deck launches from Andrew Wolstenholme..
W107 September/October 2014
Beale Park Boat Show re-invented • Cordless canoes – and tenders • ABBA • Designer Monologues: Matt Newland • Sailing Swallow Boats’ Expedition • Sail Caledonia • Paul Gartside steel motor-sailer • Building a Ness Yawl • Grand Designs: Storm 23 by Matt Newland & the smallest houseboat by Roy Schreyer.
W108 November/December 2014
Douarnenez 2014 • Fishing under Sail • Building the Flat-Pack Boat • Paul Gartside plans: Flat-Bottom Dinghies • Building Hvalsoe 13 • Building ABBA-winning Kayak • Sailing Canoes on the Baltic • The Designer Monologues: Ian Nicolson • Cordless Canoe Challenge rules 2015 • Grand Designs: Faering cruiser by John Harris, Chesapeake Light Craft.
W109 January/February 2015 – SOLD OUT
Swallows & Amazons • The ‘Cornish’ Raid • Dressage for boats – ! • Paul Gartside plans: Fantail Daysailer • What’s the point of water ballast? • Oars for leisure rowing • Rowing skiff restoration • Outdoor boat • Designer interview: Paul Fisher • Grand Designs: Two dayboats with water ballast: Selway-Fisher Highlander 18 & Francois Vivier Stir-Ven 19.
W110 March/April 2015 – SOLD OUT
Portsoy Festival in Scotland • Oyster dredging in Cornwall • Dressage for boats – 2 • Paul Gartside plans: Outboard Runabout • Restoring a RN Fast Motor Dinghy • Building a Cuddy Dinghy • The Valk flies • Creek cruising in Essex • Outdoor boat • Grand Designs: Andrew Wolstenholme’s Wheelyboat and Eric Henseval’s Aviateur plywood ocean voyager.
W111 May/June 2015 – SOLD OUT
The Battle of the Luggers • Ryan Kearley Traditional Boatbuilder • Interview: Iain Oughtred • Paul Gartside plans: Two Pram Tenders • Jamie Clay’s Guillemot • Tom’s Viking Dayboat
• What’s the Point of Two Masts? • Marlinspike Sailors • Grand Designs: Iain Oughtred’s Caledonia Yawl Mk3 and Phil Swift’s Florin for Willow Bay Boats.
W112 July/August 2015 – SOLD OUT
Lady Charlotte • Galway Hookers at Kinvara • What’s the Point of Traditional Wooden Boats? • Oru Folding Kayak • Sailing the Shrimper 21 • Paul Gartside plans: Koster-style dayboat • Building Lili using CAD and CNC • Hobart Festival of Sail • Marlinspike Sailors • Grand Designs: CLC’s John Harris presents his 16’ Outrigger Junior Proa
W113 September/October 2015 – SOLD OUT
Beale Park Boat Show 2015 • Cordless Canoes • ABBA • Gaff Rig For Cruising • Sailing the Salmo 11 • Paul Gartside plans: classic motor cruiser • Building a big cat • Building the Ilur dinghy • Marlinspike Sailors • Grand Designs: Glen-L Marine’s Barrelback runabout.
W114 November/December 2015
Sail Caledonia • Gaff: The Once & Future Rig? • Sailing the GRP Kite • Pasco 23 motor launch • Paul Gartside plans: children’s rowboat • Building a steam launch in a polytunnel • Building a Stickleback canoe • Building that second boat • Pocket Yacht Palooza… and Crooza • Marlinspike Sailors: bosun’s chair • Grand Designs: Selway-Fisher catboat.
W115 January/February 2016 – SOLD OUT
Beer Lugger • Sailing the Smack’s Boat • Paul Gartside plans: motor sloop • George Whisstock’s EasyBuild designs • Completing a Whisstock dinghy • Building the Lili 2 • Epoxy techniques • Cordless Canoe lessons • 2016 CCC Rules • 60 Years of Wharram cats • Marlinspike Sailors: cockscombing • Grand Designs: Wharram Mana.
W116 March/April 2016 – SOLD OUT
SeaFair Haven • Sailing Tom’s Viking Boat • Paul Gartside plans: pocket gaffer • The Glorious Herreshoff 12 • How the Smith family built their Haven 12 – Part 1 • Building an L-G gaffer • Outdoor Boat • Kate’s Liveaboard • ABBA 2016 Rules • Marlinspike Sailors: Tool Rolls • Grand Designs: Smaalders Simplicity 35 & Selway-Fisher Ptarmigans.
W117 May/June 2016
Great Breton Festivals • What’s the Point of Trailer Sailers? • Paul Gartside plans: Trailable Houseboat • Building the Francois Vivier Jewell • Building the Haven 12 – Part 2 • Building the Lili – 3 • Taking Off the Lines • Marlinspike Sailors: Tool Lanyards • Beale Park Boat Show Preview • Grand Designs: Tad Roberts’ Pogy 17 motor sailer.
W118 July/August 2016
Thames Trad preview • Casino Royale electric Chris Craft • IBTC Portsmouth • How Should We Restore Old Boats? • Gartside plans: Gaff-rigged Daysailer • Building the Haven 12 – 3 • Building the Lili – 4 • Taking Off the Lines – 2 • Making a Pilot Ladder • SkiffieWorlds • Grand Designs: Paul Fisher’s steam launch & Graham Byrne’s Core Sound pocket cruisers.
W119 September/October 2016 – SOLD OUT
Beale Park Boat Show review • Amateur Boat Building Awards • Cordless Canoe Challenges • Waterfly: International 12 • Gartside plans: Cruising schooner • Orkney Yoles • A little lugger called Summer • Making soft shackles • Cleaning the seas around the Scillies.
W120 November/December 2016
Still in Europe – at Douarnenez • Fowey River Class • IBTC Lowestoft • Gartside plans: Outboard Runabout • Building a breakdeck motorboat • Building Lili – 5 • Outdoor Boat • The Sailmaker’s Trade • SkiffieWorlds • Grand Designs: Vivier lateener & B&B’s motorboat.
W121 January/February 2017- SOLD OUT
Liberty Belle paddle steamer • Franklin Wooden Boat Centre • Falmouth Marine School • Paul Gartside remembers Tom Sukanen • Building Lili – 6 • Venetian S’ciopon • Oughtred Guillemot • Deben Lugger Rally • ABBA ’17 • Grand Designs: Wolstenholme Crabber 24.
W122 March/April 2017 – SOLD OUT
Semaine du Golfe • Cornish Traditional Rowing Craft • French Boatbuilding School • Paul Gartside Plans: Rowing Pram • Building Lili – 7 • Building Custom Trailer Sailer • Building Two Strip-Plankers • Making a Ditty Bag • Grand Designs: CLC Skerry Dayboat & Selway-Fisher Mandarin Rowing Skiff.
W123 May/June 2017 – SOLD OUT
Sail Caledonia • Mayflower dinghy • Cockler rebuild • Gartside plans: Pocket Gaffer • Sailing into Retirement • Designing the Retirement Project Boat • Building a Boatshop in Alaska • Grand Designs: Wolstenholme Norfolk Punt • Beale Park Boat Show Preview.
W124 July/August 2017
Thames Trad • What Colin Henwood did next and what he’s doing now • Replanking Peggotty • Paul Gartside Plans: Beach Cruiser • Plank on Foam Staverse Jol • Building Lili – 8 • My Last Boat • Better Brightwork • Grand Designs: Dave Gentry’s skin-on-frame canoe yawl.
W125 September/October 2017 – SOLD OUT
Beale 2017 • ABBA • Lapwing 2 • Dad’s Boats • CCC & Codless Blue Riband • Gartside Plans: Tancook Whaler • Colin Henwood on electric boats • First-timer builds a traditional clinker dinghy • Building Selway Fisher ‘Lillie’ canoe yawl • My Last Boat 2 • Make your own lead line • Grand Designs: Andrew Wolstenholme kit dinghy for Young Gaffers.
W126 November/December 2017 – SOLD OUT
Semaine du Golfe 2017 • Sail & Oar in Morbihan • Skin-on-Frame • Gartside plans: Motor Launch • Colin Henwood on old tools • Building a Gartside Pram • Building the Lili 9 • Building from a Boat Kit • Outdoor Boat Grand Designs: Francois Vivier sail-and=oar team boat Kernic & Princess 22 sharpie from Graham Byrnes of B&B Yachts.
W127 January/February 2018
Sailing Lively • A Sweeter Peapod • Gartside plans: Fast Gaffer • Skin-on Teak Skiff • Restoration Dramas: Thames launch, river skiff; Wayfarer transom • Colin Henwood on traditional cobles • Restoring a vintage German caravan – yes, really! • Digital Boatshop 1: Tool tote • Grand Designs: Selway-Fisher coble-inspired dayboats.
W128 March/April 2018
Douarnenez encore • Dutch Boat on the Broads • Designing Boats for the Broads • Hunter’s Yard • Gartside plans: Flattie Skiff • Colin Henwood: Buying Boat Timber • Building the Lili 10: Vacuum Bagging • Building Tony Dias Harrier • Strip Plank Techniques • Grand Designs: Karl Stambaugh’s CMD Boats Trailer Sailer 24.
W129 May/June 2018
Castine dayboats • Custom BayCruiser 23 • Salcombe motor launch • Gartside plans: Lugsail dinghy • Colin Henwood: ‘Jack and John’ • Building the Lili 11: the start of the finish • Building the Tomales Bay One-Design • Restoring a National 18 • Grand Designs: John Harris of CLC Boats has a Cornish Pilot Gig – for stitch & glue construction!
W130 July/August 2018
Freebody’s 2018 • Sailing the new Crabber 24 Mk V • Electric Hire Boats • Gartside plans: 29’ (8.8m) Motor Sailer • Batbuilding with Home-Grown Timber • Building a River Shannon Gandelow • Making a Fisherman’s smock • DIY Boatyard • Thames Traditional Boat Festival • Grand Designs: Swallow Yachts’ COAST 250.
W131 September/October 2018
Beale Park boat show • ABBA and CCC competitions • Falmouth Working Boat • Dutch sail-and-oar weekend • Gartside plans: Plywood Peapod • Colin Henwood’s crafts-people • Building the Lili: finishing the finish • Building and sailing Phoenix • CNC project: portable tool chest • Grand Designs: Dudley Dix Cape Cutter 19 for home builders.
W132 November/December 2018
Douarnenez 2018 • Launchings at Lyme • Cobles at Brid • Gartside plans: Shanty Boat • Colin Henwood’s handover • Building the Lili: non-slip decks & homemade portholes • Building a Cradle Boat • Phoenix build 2 • CNC project: portable workbench • Grand Designs: Selway-Fisher slipper launches for home builders • ABBA & CCC rules 2019.
W133 January/February 2019
Buzzards Bay 18 • Cockwells Modern & Classic Boatbuilding • Ben Harris Boatbuilder • Beautiful Boat Company • Gartside plans: 30’ (9m) Schooner • Colin Henwood on the Consuta system • Landlubber’s Log • Phoenix build 3 • Outdoor Boat • Grand Designs: CLC’s Waterlust sailing canoe & Jordan Wood Boat’s Footloose sailing skiff.
W134 March/April 2019
Sail Caledonia • Six Metre Man Tom Owen • Colin Henwood on Restoration or Reinvention • Gartside plans: 45’ (14m) Cruising Cutter • SCRA Picnic class • Cat for Rowing • Building Wood Cruising Yacht • Scantlings for Modern Wood Boatbuilding • Adventures with Dinghy • Grand Designs: Karl Stambaugh’s Ragtime Motor Cruiser for Home Builders.
W135 May/June 2019
Vogalonga • Boatbuilder Amy Stringfellow • Harmen Timmerman’s beautiful boeier • Gartside plans: 24’ (7.1m) Cruising Sloop • Colin Henwood on hanging up the shingle • Lili 14: Electrics • Building a cruising gaffer • Strip-plank pocket cruiser • Launchings at Lyme • Adventures with Dinghy * Grand Designs: Francois Vivier’s Lilou 2 dayboat.
W136 July/August 2019
Thames Trad • Riverboat Queen Gillian Nahum • Windermere Jetty Museum • Smacks’ Shipwright Caroline Ellis • Gartside plans: 18’ (5.5m) Gozzo Boat • Colin Henwood on painting • Pro-built pocket cruiser • Trailer sailer fit out • Wood composite construction • Grand Designs: S-F Heron 15 pocket cruiser & CLC’s Guider kit-built raid boat.
W137 September/October 2019
Semaine du Golfe • Baltimore Wooden Boat Festival • Gartside plans: 16’ (4.9m) Pocket Cruiser • Colin Henwood on the snuggledog • Building a Cold Moulded Cutter • Sheathing the Bare Hull • Making hollow spars • Crab Pot Craftsman • Adventures with Dinghy • Grand Designs: Dave Gentry Light Melonseed skiff & Sam Devlin lobster boat.
W138 November/December 2019
Two Havens for Tasmania • Dutch Wooden Boat Festival • SkiffieWorlds 2019 • Ant Mace’s skin-on-frame boats • Gartside plans: 15’ (4.6m) garvey • Colin Henwood compares festivals • Planning the accommodation • Norfolk Punt build • Carbon spars • Hull turnover • Avoiding salties in Oz • Tabernacles • Grand Designs: Wolstenholme Sprite.
W139 January/February 2020
Loire Festival of Rivercraft • Colin Henwood en France • Restoring a Broads cruiser at IBTC Lowestoft • Gartside plans: 16’ (4.9m) Fast Daysailer • Laying modern wood decks • Getting her out of the boatshed • Electric Propulsion • Des Pawson, Ropework Hero • Grand Designs: Two canoe yawls: CLC’s Autumn Leaves & Selway-Fisher’s Lillie.
W140 March/April 2020
Charlie Hussey, marine carpenter • Gartside plans: 21’ (6.5m) Electric Launch • Working on Water • Mastmaker • Paddlemaker • Detlef’s dreamboat • Bike trailer sailer • Building a family launch • Fitting an inboard diesel • Grand Designs: Smaalders motor cruiser.
W141 May/June 2020
Small American classics in modern materials • Colonia Dinghy • Metre Yacht Restorations • The Rigger’s Trade • Gartside plans: 18’ (5.5m) Launch • The WBTA story • Building the cabin top • Kate’s little lugger • Lili’s daggerboards • Ellen Massey-Leonard in Alaska • Ian Nicolson: safety in the cabin • Grand Designs: Paul Fisher’s Fanny the Fantail Launch.
W142 July/August 2020
France’s Fantastic Maritime Festivals • Trad boat holidays Stanley & Thomas • Gartside plans: 13’ (4m) Plywood Catboat • Mouldings and cove lines • Making metal rig fittings • Cassette rudder • Fossil brothers • The science of traditional boat rigs • Grand Designs: Andrew Wolstenholme’s elegant motor launch for Tasmania’s Wood Boat Centre.
W143 September/October 2020
Alasdair Grant’s Island Boatbuilding • Ballentine’s Boat Shop on Cape Cod • Gartside plans: 17’ 6” (5.3m) Garvey • Old ways to build wooden boats • Cockpit fit-out • OGA Dinghy afloat at last • Lugger or Gaffer? • The Shock of the Old: Materials • Lockdown Wooden Boats • Grand Designs: Nick Schade strip plank Adirondack Guide Boat.
W144 November/December 2020
White Violet and the Sabrinas • YM Senior build • Gartside plans: 16’ (4.9) rowing skiff • Catboats in Britain • Home boatbuilding: Goat Island Skiff & Morbic 12 • Gaffer cabin fit-out • The Shock of the Old: Don’t do dogma • CNC-cut framing table • Dinghy meets wolves * Affordable small boat rigs • Grand Designs: Francois Vivier’s new traditional Mesker sailing dinghy design for amateur builders.
W145 January/February 2021
Encore for la Semaine du Golfe? • Nigel Irens’ Slippery Launches • Gartside plans: 14’ (4.3m) sailing skiff • Recycled teak • Launching 144’s home-built Lockdown Boats • Lili’s sophisticated CNC-cut sails • Jerry Eardley makes gaffer spars • Unstayed masts: Moray MaPhail does the maths • Taking Off the Lines • Nesting Dinghy • Mooring points * BBA Lockdown Launch Day • Grand Designs: Andrew Wolstenholme Gentleman’s Launch
W146 March/April 2021
Building an Oughtred double-ender • Woodbridge Boat Yard • Class of 2020 at the BBA • Gartside plans: 16’ (5m) family launch • Surveying wooden boats • New transom for an old boat • Jerry Eardley moves his gaffer from the home boatshop • Stayed masts with Moray MacPhail • Forgetting the bear essentials • Boat windows • Sail Caledonia preview * Grand Designs: Paul Fisher of Selway-Fisher Design introduces a dayboat with a great backstory
W147 May/June 2021
Wooden Boat Weekend? • Always Another Boat • Living aboard • Gartside plans: 16’ (5m) cruising dinghy • This wooden boatbuilding life • Building an Oughtred Snipefish rowing skiff • Andrew Wolstenholme on lug rig options • Mast and stay sizes with Moray MacPhail • Fitting a lead keel to a modern gaffer • Brown bears like salmon fishing • Siting winches * Grand Designs: Designer Susanne Altenburger celebrates Phil Bolger’s Seabird.
W148 July/August 2021
Class of 2020 at BBA • Jolly Brit • Practical electric propulsion • Gartside plans: 34’ (10.4m) motor cruiser • Yet another boat – 2 • Building Stornoway 14 in lockdown • Rudder for a modern gaffer • Modern methods for taking off lines • Standing rigging sizes with Moray MacPhail • With the sea otters in California • Carrying the dinghy on deck * Grand Designs: Reuel B Parker;s Swansea pilot schooner for cruising..
W149 September/October 2021
Falmouth Classics • Opticassou lateen trainer • The Repairability of wooden boats • Gartside plans: 27’ (8.3m) cruising canoe • Rash Promise – to build a dinghy in 5 weeks • Building a Chebacco in the Netherlands • And a Weekender in Tassy • Rigging a modern gaffer • With Moray MacPhail doing the maths • Diving with Ellen in Baja • Pumping out the bilges • Grand Designs: Mike Stevenson on how his father designed the Weekender.
W150 November/December 2021
Sponsoring rebuilds at IBTC Lowestoft • Building boats at BBA Lyme Regis • Arthur Beale goes south • Thames ‘Trad’ • Gartside plans: 19’ (5.8m) centreboard sloop • Designing & building a canoe yawl • Rigging a gaffer • And a modern raid boat • Building a Weekender in Tasmania • Bowsprits and how to rig them • True grits for sanding • Gunter rig • Grand Designs: Paul Fisher introduces Rathlin, a jaunty motor cruiser or salty motor-sailer.
W151 January/February 2022
Lymington River Class scows • Launch Day at BBA Lyme Regis • Training at IBTC Portsmouth • Gartside plans: 20’ (6m) practical motorboat • Building an American Whitehall skiff in Scotland • Building a Weekender in Tasmania • Wooden Cruising Yacht lessons • 3D printing for boatbuilders • Adventures with Dinghy • Raised topsides • Grand Designs: Andrew Wolstenholme’s latest launch for Star Yachts.
W152 March/April 2022
Loire Festival of Rivercraft • Irish Currachs in Milwaukee • Davey & Co chandlers • Gartside plans: 30’ (9.1m) motor sailer • ‘Suent curves’ • Building an Oughtred Elf • Boat tent for Lili • Weekender in Tasmania • Wooden Cruising Yacht conclusions • James Wharram farewell • Rudder troubles • Rigging wire sizes • Grand Designs: Nesting dinghies
W153 May/June 2022
Lili on Lac Leman • Fyne Boat Kits • Wooden Boat Gathering preview • Gartside plans: 15’
(4.5m) Outboard Runabout • Building a traditional sailing dinghy • Building a Francois
Vivier Seil from a kit • Weekender in Tasmania • Diving in the South Seas • Scantlings for
ply boats • Rigging terminals • Stopping the rot • Rigging wire sizes • Reviews: electric
outboard & flexible epoxy • Grand Designs: Francois Vivier Seil & Dudley Dix Cape Charles.
W154 July/August 2022
Douarnenez Encore • Launch Day at Lyme • Gartside plans: 22’ (6.7m) centreboard gaffer • Thames Traditional Boat Festival • Casablanca slipper launch restored • Tunnel sterns for shoal draft • Sustainable boatbuilding timbers • Scantlings for ply boats • Mastbands • Dinghy adventures • Reviews: Temo electric outboard & Makita cordless multitool
• Grand Designs: Francois Vivier Stir-Ven 19.
W155 September/October 2022 – SOLD OUT
Whisper Motorboat • Galaxidi Islands Regatta • Rowing thru France • Gartside plans: 15’ (4.6m) light skiff • WBTA Windermere Gathering • Repairing wooden mast • Sutton Hoo re-creation • Setting up a boatshop • Scantlings for ply boats • Grand Designs: Chesapeake Light Craft’s Eastport Pram • New wooden boats at the Southampton Boat Show.
W156 November/December 2022
Sail Caledonia in Scotland • Mousehole festival in Cornwall • English Raid on the Blackwater • Gartside plans: 37’ (11m) motor sailer • Making a coracle • Designing & building the Happy Duck • Another Boat 8 • Designing for electric propulsion • Connections for modern/trad rigs • Sail tracks • Grand Designs: Selway-Fisher Skye 21
W158 March/April 2023 – SOLD OUT
Sail Traders • Electric propulsion – in practice • Racing at Sail Caledonia in a Stir-Ven 19 meticulously built in Ireland • Paul Gartside plans: 14’ (4.3m) traditional sailing dinghy • Going for gold: the skills of the signwriter • Building a wooden racing yacht • And a Forest & Stream Skiff • Youngsters build a fleet • Carbon spars for a canoe yawl • Repairing a wooden dinghy • Grand Designs: Selway-Fisher’s brace of buildable American runabouts.
W159 May/June 2023
Semaine du Golfe du Morbihan • Penny Morton launches the Weekender • A century of boatbuilding at Landamore’s • Materials and methods for old boat restoration • Paul Gartside plans: 16’ (4.9m) electric launch • Reviewing Arwen Marine’s Silmaril cruising dinghy • Zinnia: building a Victorian dayboat • And a strip plank Whitehall • Reducing weight aloft • Grand Designs: Willow Bay Boat’s new pocket cruiser, Florin.
W160 July/August 2023 – SOLD OUT
Lakeland’s Haven 12 • Swallow & Amazon at Hunter’s Yard • Tela dayboat • Paul Gartside plans: 20’ (6m) seagoing sailing canoe • Rebuilding fishing smack Varuna • Building tunnel-stern launch • Reviews: WEST clear epoxy hardener & Frogtape • Ross Lillistone Periwinkle • Modern masthead fittings • Adventures with Dinghy • Better toerails • Grand Designs: Matt Newland’s new BayCruiser 32 for Swallow Yachts.
W161 September/October 2023
Semaine du Golfe 2023 • Electric Cornish Crabber 24 • Electric Propulsion Systems • Electric boats on the Thames • Paul Gartside plans: 16’ (4.9m) Shanty Boat • Sutton Hoo Ship recreation • Beginning a blue water Cruising Yacht • Launch Day at BBA • Tabernacles • Reviews: ‘Working Sail’ & Arthur Beale jumper • Ian Nicolson on stronger tillers • Grand Designs: Francois Vivier’s Pen-Hir, the 25’ (7.5m) cruising yacht he designed for himself.
W162 November/December 2023
Thames Trad Boat Festival 2023 • Raid Finland • Paul Gartside plans: 19’ (5.8) Family Catboat • Demon Yachts’ electric workboat • Building foil rudder • Learning from Lili • Designing trailer sailers • Taming the bowsprit • Reviews: Letter bags & Makita cordless inflator • Ian Nicolson on stanchions • Grand Designs: Dudley Dix plywood gaffers
W163 January/February 2024
Fecamp Grand’Escale • Festivals on Lac Leman • Andrew Nancarrow gig builder • Paul Gartside plans: Scandinavian Skiffs • Wooden Boat Weekend • Clinker dinghy in Huon Pine • Building Gartside Flashboat • Reviews: Cascaphen & Cascamite • Personal Ekranoplans • Modern ropes • Remembering Nick Newland • Ian Nicolson on knockdowns • Grand Designs: Conrad Natzio’s easy build Sandpiper sailing dinghy.
W164 March/April 2024
Launch Day at Skol ar Mor • Sailing the Goat Island Skiff • Rebuild or new build • Paul Gartside plans: 21’ (6.4m) pocket gaffer • Electric motor sailing • Trailing with an electric car • Tyde Icon • Reviews: WEST self-mixing epoxy • Sailing dinghy scantlings • Modern ropes and where to use them • Ian Nicolson on making lockers lock • Grand Designs: Francois Vivier’s Criezic lighter kit-built cruising dinghy.
W165 May/June 2024
The late Iain Oughtred’s boat designs • Beginners build a Breton lugger • Paul Gartside plans: 25’ (7.5m) family launch • Building a traditional clinker dinghy • Celebrating the scraper • Building a Northumbrian coble from a kit • And a tender from a discarded kit • Reviews: Sustainable teak & repairable bilge pumps • Building a little Fifie • Sailing dinghy scantlings • Modern blocks and where to use them • Ian Nicolson on locating sneaky leaks • Grand Designs: Paul Fisher introduces the rest of Selway-Fisher’s range of coble designs.
W166 July/August 2024
Douarnenez encore! • Electric propulsion for a Canadian ‘dispro’ launch • Thames Trad encore! • Paul Gartside plans: 22’ (6.9m) centreboard gaffer • Building a solar-powered liveaboard for cruising the French canals • Recycled materials for home boatbuilding • Planking a first traditionally built clinker dinghy • Peter H Spectre remembers designer Iain Oughtred, over here and over there • Modern tackles and how to rig them • Curing crosstree problems • Grand Designs: Francois Vivier’s little Mediterranean lateener.
W167 September/October 2024
Sail Caledonia: the future • Boatbuilding history in Looe • Wooden boats on Windermere in the bi-annual WBTA gathering • Paul Gartside plans: 13’6’’ (4.1m) Canadian canoe • Building a Wolstenholme Mallard • Boatbuilding with recycled timber and paints • Fitting an electric pod drive to a Tela dayboat • Turning an old skiff into a sailing outrigger • Dinghy scantlings • Lug rig options • Stronger companion ladders • Grand Designs: Andrew Wolstenholme introduces his new Petitprez electric launch.
W168 November/December 2024
Launchings at Skol Ar Mor • New masts for 134 years old Cornish lugger • Paul Gartside plans: 15’ (4.6m) Outboard Skiff • Building a traditional clinker dinghy 3: Steambent frames • Rescuing a 1960s Finesse cruising yacht • And a 1910 Thames skiff • Reviews: TeamO lifejacket & Kathy’s calendar • Recreating a 12th century Viking boat in clinker plywood • Lug rig options • The simplest of diesel engines • Grand Designs: Paul Fisher of Selway-Fisher Design introduces Grace Hanwar, a dayboat for group adventures.
W169 January/February 2025
Semaine du Golfe 2025 • Leaping the Lizard in a Cornish lugger • Jack Livesey: Bugatti boat builder • Paul Gartside plans: 17’6” (5.3m) Gaff Sloop • Repairing a traditional clinker cruising yacht • Setting up for strip planking • Bringing back the Catboat • The adventurous ‘Rob Roy’ MacGregor • Designing strip-plank dinghies • Carbon spars for little luggers • Gaff rig raiding in the Netherlands
W170 March/April 2025
Great Escape • Extreme Raid • Wind-powered Sawmills • Paul Gartside plans: 22’ (6.7m) Summer Launch • Tom Jones Boatyard • Gaia Brojanigo Boatbuilder • Repairing a traditional clinker cruising yacht • Clinker dinghy fit out • Round bilge dinghy design • Carbon spars for little luggers • ‘Beachproofing’ an old boat • Grand Designs: Andrew Wolstenholme’s Sparklet pocket gaffer.
W171 May/June 2025
SkiffieWorlds 2025 • Wooden boatbuilding in Spain • The Withy Boat • Paul Gartside plans: 22’ (6.7m) Experimental Gaff Sloop • Dan Lee’s New Ways Building Wooden Boats • Alick Burt’s Wooden Canoes • Building a Gartside cruising yacht • And a Gartside clinker dinghy • Making flat-blade oars • Dudley Dix Didi Retro 27 • Viking rudders • Gaffer gatherings and riparian recycling.
