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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
The Gribble - Here we come gathering boats in May. The Picarooner Revisited - Back in Water Craft no 2, Judy Bricldiill sailed the salty little Picarooner. Since then there's been some changes made. Bringing back the Cat - Ou est la Plume... Over in France, of course, where Kathy Mansfield finds an opinion leading sailor and an innovative designer are bringing fresh thinking to the family-davboat. Correspondence - Box-boats and bird's beak joints, rating systems, electric boats, more advice for virgins - suddenly we have a postbag. The Awful Truth - On the beach in Oman, Chris Waite finishes building the boat he designed himself and several deadlines later, the time has come for the test sail. Better to have Loved and Loft...When designer Paul Fisher fell madly in love with a Yorkshire coble, it was obvious: the man needed to get out more - preferably on a little dayboat of his own design. The Secret Superyacht - Who needs mid-summer in Monaco or the fall in Florida when you can enjoy all the creature comforts afloat in winter on the Thames Kathy Mansfield samples the good life. Launch of a Longship - Susanne Altenburger of Phil Bolger & Friends in the USA finds a Viking longship built in Mulheim, Germany - to a Phil Bolger design. Hand-spliced Standing Rigging - The satisfaction of serious marlinspike seamanship with gaffer owner Colin Stroud. Learning how at Lyme Regis - What's the first step in restoring a wooden yacht Take a short course which at a boatbuilding school which teaches you how, says amateur Geoff Douglas. Gear Reviews & Reports - Our art-man Peter Goad flourishes the paint brush and David Parker does the rest. Recommended Reading - and Viewing - A classic book on boat design is back and a new video on boatbuilding could be a classic too. Grand Designs - An 'omnibus edition' from Southampton's Class of 74: Andrew Wolstenhoime designs a trailer sailer for himself: Paul Cartside takes his Cornish Flashboat to the Yukon. Boats - Reviews and Reports - New boats in build, from a solar-powered dayboat to sail-powered dayboat to an ocean-crossing American schooner. Boats on Show... is back, this time at Chertsey - Pete Greenfield lists just a selection of the 100-plus exhibitors. Electric Boat Event - Barbara Penniell previews the first of a new kind of boat show at Hartford Marina, Huntingdon. Calendar of Events - Feting the Tall Ships in France, the Small Ships in Scotland's Great Glen, and much more. Subscribing to Water Craft and...just over the page, ordering the issues you missed.
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