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| Volume 23 - Number 16 January 1, 2006
2 Commentary |
“Moonlight on the Susquehanna,” woodcut after a drawing by J.D. Woodward from The Aldine, Vol. VI, No. 7, July 1873. “Mr. Woodward takes us with him along the Shenandoah,” the article says, “and with the privilege that art enables us to exercise we are just where we choose to be.” Contributed by John B. Yellott, Jr. |
| Volume 23 - Number 17 January 15, 2006
2 Commentary |
Happiness is a small boat in a brisk breeze. Bruce Anderson in his “PD Racer” (black and yellow stripes) “livin’ the life” at the Colorado River Odyssey, featured in this issue. |
| Volume 23 - Number 18 February 1, 2006
2 Commentary |
This reproduction of an Edward Hopper print of a catboat was of one of his works in an exhibition at the Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc. in New York City last year. We learned about it too late but the tiresome (his word) Bill Marsano sent us this publicity photo anyway to share with you. |
| Volume 23 - Number 19 February 15,
2006
2 Commentary |
Ginny Filiatrault hard at work in 1969 on one of a series of old wooden (with one fiberglass later on) sailing yachts that caused her to spend some of her 60 years of cruising on the hard in a series of boatyards working on them to keep them going. She tells us all about it in this issue. |
| Volume 23 – Number 20 March 1,
2006
2 Commentary |
Model boat building as architectural training is something reader Richard Alan Smith undertook to try on his architectural class students a number of years ago at the University of Oregon with interesting results. He tells us about it in this issue. |
| Volume 23 – Number 21 March 15,
2006
2 Commentary |
Frequent contributor Jim Thayer took some time away from his beloved desert sailing spots in our own far west to travel to Egypt to experience desert sailing of another sort on the Nile. His report on what transpired is featured in this issue. |
| Volume 23 – Number 22 April 1,
2006
2 Commentary |
The end of a late fall day on Maine’s remote West Grand Lake for Richard Winslow and his guide. Richard tells us about another of his backwoods canoeing adventures in this issue. |
| Volume 23 – Number 22a April
1, 2006
2 Commentary |
Jim Thayer entitled this photo, "Dwight on the edge" in his report on the annual Starvation small boat get-together in Utah featured in this issue. Some lively sailing was apparently enjoyed |
| Volume 23 – Number 23 April 15,
2006
2 Commentary |
The ceramic sculpture gracing this issue’s cover is by reader Peter Owens, who follows up on each of his sculptures by writing a story about it. You’ll find the story about this one in this issue, “Romance in a Whitehall Skiff.” |
| Volume 23 – Number 24 May 1,
2006
2 Commentary |
Canal cruising in Europe provided reader Phil Thiel and several fellow architects mobile living quarters from which to sally forth and inspect the historical architecture along their way. Phil’s full coverage is featured in this issue. |
| Volume 24 – Number 1 May 15,
2006
2 Commentary |
Richard Smith’s boat building project is pictured arriving in his backyard through the air, he tells us more about it in this issue. |
| Volume 24 – Number 2 June 1,
2006
2 Commentary |
Phil Bolger and Suzanne Altenberger have come up with a major new design concept based on the ancient Polynesian proa. Their in-depth study of the concept is so comprehensive that we have had to split it over two issues, in this issue we bring you the concluding portion. |
| Volume 24 – Number 3 June 15,
2006
2 Commentary |
Dennis Bradley’s Egret was one of the many small craft that made the scene at the first Florida West Coast Small Craft Festival at Cortez in early April, and Robb White was there to brings us his views of the occasion. |
| Volume 24 – Number 4 July 1,
2006
2 Commentary |
Robb White in the Rescue Minor leaving Turner Matthews’ dock in Bradenton, Florida on his way to the April Small Craft meet at nearby Cortez. Adrian Morgan’s photo captures the essential Robb in perfect harmony with his craft and environment. His friend Larry Page offers his own personal testament to Robb in this issue. |
| Volume 24 – Number 5 July 15,
2006
2 Commentary |
John Fitzgerald’s photo from a recent canoe trip in the Maine North Woods catches the ambiance of that remnant of wild lands in our crowded northeast and serves to introduce us to three narratives of adventuring in that country featured in this issue |
| Volume 24 – Number 6 August 1,
2006
2 Commentary |
A moment of unplanned action at the John Gardner Small Craft Workshop at Mystic Seaport in early June. More photos, a report and a listing of all the boats entered are featured in this issue. |
| Volume 24 – Number 7 August 15,
2006
2 Tributes to Robb White |
Walt Donaldson’s 28’ New Haven Sharpie aground at low tide off Florida’s St. George Island while enroute to the Cortez Small Craft Festival last spring. Walt has a full report of his two week solo cruise in this issue. |
| Volume 24 – Number 8 September
1, 2006
2 Commentary |
It was the summer of 1955 when college boy Joe Spalding got a job teaching sailing at the Taratine Yacht Club in Dark Harbor, Maine, now he recalls with relish that summer spent amongst the well to do summercators in this issue. |
| Volume 24 – Number 9 September
15, 2006
2 Commentary |
Getting up to speed in a Mouseboat at the Minnesota Messabout in June on the Mississippi River’s Lake Pepin. Doc Regan tells us more in this issue. |
| Volume 24 – Number 10 October
1, 2006
2 Commentary |
Reinhard Zollitsch was out there again this past spring in his Kruger sea canoe, this time paddling the entire Maine Island Trail after several years to see what it now has to offer. He tells us what he found out in this issue. |
| Volume 24 – Number 11 October
15, 2006
2 Commentary |
The Essex Shipbuilding Museum’s Colonial Era Chebacco boat replica, Lewis H. Story, departs Provincetown, Massachusetts on the last leg of what was, for her, an epic journey to and from the WoodenBoat Show in Newport, RI the end of August.Your editor was along for part of the trip and, along with her captain, brings you the whole story and full details of this unique craft in this issue. |
| Volume 24 – Number 12 November
1, 2006
2 Commentary |
Amongst all the photos I took at the WoodenBoat Show this one somehow suggested itself to me as a good cover shot. The boat was not my sort of boat but the name had a nice affectionate tone to it. |
| Volume 24 – Number 13 November
15, 2006
2 Commentary |
David Hume’s drawing of his little sloop Blueberry first appeared on the cover of the July 15, 1994 issue. This is the first time we’ve ever repeated a cover. But David’s tale, featured in this issue, of a cruise in his Blueberry is not a repeat but another chapter from his book Blueberry, a Boat of the Connecticut Shoreline. |
| Volume 24 – Number 14 December
1, 2006
2 Commentary |
The annual fall gathering of catboats at Arey’s Pond Boatyard on Cape Cod attracted a record 90 boats this fall and Barry Donahue caught the action on film for a feature article in this issue. |
| Volume 24 – Number 15 December
15, 2006
2 Commentary |
Richard Alan Smith spotted this bilge keeler sitting in the mud beneath the Firth of Forth Bridge in Scotland and nearly ended up bringing her home. He tells us all about it in this issue. |
