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The previous header photo is of the Peanut class singlehander (in this case Peanut #1, Charlie Brown ), a plywood DIY dinghy designed by ...

Before reading further I suggest you refer to this post for background . The previous header photo features 8 foot Jester dink racing on...

Xenon Herrmann sent along an update to history of the Santa Cruz Jester Dinghy . It looks like the Jester was based on an earlier "Eas...

Of late, I've been inexorably sucked into a tale of the two Jester Dinghies, one known, one unknown. The known Jester: When doing a...

I wrote about Frank Bethwaite's plywood junior scow, the Northbridge Junior, as part of a post on the sit-on-top dinghies . Last fall I ...

From the very large ( Silent Maid ) to the micro; a 7' by 4'6" (2.13 meters by 1.37 meters) catboat. In the early 1990's, B...

When I wrote about my El Toro sailing days I recounted a same-age compatriot from the community accompanying me, as I learned to sail, in h...

The previous header photo was of two El Toro dinghies racing. The El Toro is a 8' (2.438 meter) V-shaped, single chine, transom bowe...

Every so often I sit down and sketch up a design I think would be cool to build. I posted this previously with a rough idea I had if you red...

Update, March 12, 2020. Class reforming. From Jeff Moses: "I was just able to obtain 2 Peanuts from The Augusta Sailing Club! ...

Australian 6-Foot skiff. A couple of years ago it occurred to me that, if you reworked the massive rig downwards,  the Aussie Historical 6...

Australian Historical Skiff Bruce Stannard The previous header photo was of the "Wee Georgie" a 1988 reproduction of the...