Small Craft Advisor Magazine - July - August 2020

In this issue

Features: Converting to Junk Rig • Restoring a Trailersailer • Birdwing Mast Physics • Bike Sailing • 23 Years of Electric Cruising • Scamp Camping Bunk • Owner Reviews • Bolger's Dovekie • Drake 13 Sharpie • Waldo Lakje • Navigation • Annabelle Skiff • And more!

SMALL BOAT CRUISE: Waldo Lake, Oregon

I decided to go to Waldo Lake, in the mountains east of Eugene, Oregon in mid-September, hoping to be on the water from Friday through the following Tuesday or Wednesday. Having been to Waldo five times in June and once in early August. I wanted to feel the nighttime chill announcing the coming winter, and be both grateful for it and fortified against it, in my winter sleeping bag. I wanted to watch the long and early shadows of Autumn seizing the forest in the afternoon.

8 mins

READER BOAT: A Drake 13 called Grebe

I have always wanted to build a sharpie. For me they are archetypal—like a boat from some dream. And mine is a very specific dream: sitting low in the cockpit on a sunny, breezy day, sailing on starboard tack, tiller and sheet in hand, just cruisin’ along in my beautiful little sharpie.

6 mins

SAFE AND SIMPLE

Changing rigs extended this sailor’s time on the water

6 mins

RESTORATION

The true cost of bringing and old boat back to life

10+ mins

Future Physics of the Birdwing Mast

An inventor’s perspective

7 mins

Bike Sailing

Building a small, bike-trailerable boat for big water

9 mins

S-CAMPING

Glenn Tripp on building a bunk

1 min

SHALLOW DRAFT

It is early May and, like many of you, we’re thinking about life in a challenging time—about gains, losses and what might come next.

3 mins

Small-Boat Gear

XPL EXPLORE MORE

3 mins

PLAN STUDY: Annabelle Skiff

Standing around after boating on the local pond, I suggested to my friend, the remarkable Paul Helbert, that I thought he would be better served by yet another boat—specifically, the “10' Rowing and Sailing Dinghy” designed by Howard Chapelle. I would modify Chapelle’s hull for skin-on-frame construction, and Paul would build the prototype. Paul could, for a minimal investment in both time and money, have a sailboat that would be lightweight enough to car-top, yet still had room for a passenger. More importantly, the boat promised jaunty performance as well.

4 mins

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Small Craft Advisor Magazine Description:

Small boats, big adventure! The only magazine focused on small and trailerable sailboats, cruising, and adventure. Each issue features places to sail, how-to and modification articles, a plan study for the boat builder, and a feature-length review of a production sailboat.