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Flat pack plywood small boat kits; all pieces CNC cut and shipped to you in a nice long box (or two) have been around since the mid 1990...

My wife, in her pithy wisdom, has observed that all I seem to do with my Classic Moths is to cut a hole and then fill it up. And she's ...

It seems the Covid Pandemic has driven the older dinghy guys into the shop, particularly the Antipodeans who have been busy restoring 60 ye...

In the history of recreational small boats the written record before 1870 is almost nonexistent. Before the U.S. Civil War (1860-1865), ...

Greg Barwick of the Australian Sailfish Association emailed me to point out they have now added a marvelous photo essay on building the Aus...

News from Down Under. The Australian Sailfish class has updated their plans. From Greg Barwick: "After many, many months of ha...

I've written before about the group small boat building craze in the 1960's . That post featured an article from a 1964 issue of th...

Michael Storer mentioned in his history of the Oz Goose box boat that the ongoing group building effort in the Philippines became a key co...

The previous header photo was an Oz Goose sending it in a big breeze. Michael Storer, designer of the Oz Goose (as well as a slew of o...

What's happening in the Classic Moth world in the winter of 2019? Frenchman Bertrand Warion has designed and has in the molds, a crui...

In 1963, a New Jersey teenager, Bill Schill, won the Moth Worlds at Larchmont YC sailing a Fletcher-Cates design named Pegasus . The follow...

This is somewhat old news. I received an email back in May from Filio Shiavina that a group in Pondicherry (south-east corner of India) wer...

Don Betts, designer of the the micro Pea Cat , contacted Tweezerman back in March about his latest project, a traditional Providence River...