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I came across this photo on the InterWebs of a Dutch working scow, a Skûtsje, doing what sailboats without keels are wont to do every on...

The previous header photo was of a sailor who became partially disconnected from his Bermuda Fitted Dinghy and is desperately trying to ...

If I had a bucket list (which I don't; I am more of the type to play it by ear, see what life offers up, and see what falls out), racin...

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

My catboat posts elicited more email and comment than usual. Two of my readers pointed out their favorite catboats (which happen to be from ...

Nope, I'm not posting about the Jack Holt designed, 3.2 meter, 10.5 foot junior dinghy, popular internationally. This is the Australian ...

Chestertown Maryland is where our local Classic Moth fleet has home-base. It is also where the assorted tall-ships and traditional schooners...

The previous header photo was a side view of small cruising cutter of the early 1880's, designed by C.P. Kunhardt, then sailing edi...

A spinnaker hoist on a Fife cutter as seen from the vantage point of a jumper strut high up on the wood mainmast. A lot of canvas flying! ...

The previous photo is a start of the Shannon One Design, an Irish, 18 foot, clinker, cat-rigged traditional dinghy that is raced primari...

In 1856, the last year of his life, George Steers , the designer of America , designed a small 24' racer for Harry Latrobe Roosevelt of ...

Sometimes all it takes to brighten the mood is a video of a class of topsail cutters, crews working hard, these powerful sailing craft cutti...

The previous header photo is of the Yoles Rondes de la Martinique, a sailing canoe, a wild and wacky, far-removed cousin of our Chesapea...

I've posted before on the Bahamian C-Class catboats ; the ones that have two crews on pries and a sail with an enormous foot length. Now...

This is a sketch of one of the large sandbaggers, used in an ad for Geo. W. Carpenter, Sailmaker, appearing in an 1894 issue of Forest...

We had a bit of snow and wind over the weekend here in the Mid Atlantic. Damned inconvenient in the modern world... waiting, ... waiting... ...

It will be good to wrap up 2015 on Earwigoagin with a much delayed post about the French tall-ship, L'Hermione, the ship that brought La...

I mentioned in my post about the American International 12 that there is also what is referred to as the European International 12, the Geo...

This is one project of the super-rich where the beauty just radiates outward into one colossal superlative and, even if you are to the left ...

The Bursledon Blogger got this right. The previous header photo was of a beach gathering of the traditional lug-rigged dinghies from Fr...