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Another post about the straight-stemmed vintage dinghies. From the July 1967 issue of One Design and Offshore Yachtsman magazine, a stunnin...

The previous header photo was harvested from Facebook with little identification. A paddling canoe start from the late nineteenth century,...

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

Time to wrap up the saga of the Mystery Canoe. For those who want to dig back into Earwigoagin to review previous posts, click on the follow...

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...

In my post about The Playboy Bunny , I mentioned that 2020 is the 50th anniversary of the America's Teacup trials on Lake Geneva, Wiscon...

Several years ago I was working on a sailing history project on the Genesee Dinghy , one of the earliest North American racing dinghies. It...

I found this vintage gem on the Riverton Historical website . How to get a newly built Duster hull out of the top floor of a Victorian hom...

Douglas Fowler, he of the Mystery Sailing Canoe , picked up this interesting half model and has, yet again began the fun part; the research...

I've had a request for the Duster plans so here they are in PDF format. As always click on the arrow icon in the top right to open in a...

The Cricket class is one of two (the other being the Lark scow ) small sailboat classes that mark the beginning of small sailboat class ra...

Paul Naton The previous header photo was of Rudder's Swallow scow being sailed on San Diego Bay. Paul Naton sent this historica...

More on the ongoing saga of the Mystery Sailing Canoe Model acquired by sailmaker Douglas Fowler. The mystery turned out to be a Bill Garde...

I was poking around some images on my computer when I came across this one, a photo that actually said Happy New Year on it. This photo ...

Where we continue the quest to solve the identity of a sailing canoe model (above photos) that was purchased off Ebay by sailmaker...

Wikipedia Commons I would bet that several of Earwigoagin's readers have a print of this iconic painting hanging up in their hous...

This French engraving (I've cropped this from the whole image) is of a 1858 regatta on the Seine at Saint-Cloud. It is the oldest pi...

I'll have more about this later but here is a photo from the 1930's of two youngsters kicking about on the Mothboat "Southern C...

A video of the quintessential small American catboat, the Beetle Catboat , a 3.73 meter by 1.82 meter sailing dinghy based on the big Cape C...

Peter Kellog, owner of the sandbaggers Bull and Bear , brought his reproduction of the 1924 Sweisguth catboat, Silent Maid , to Annapolis t...