EDITORIAL
TELL TALES - News of our 1993 Boatbuilding Competition, and new designs
CALENDAR
LETTERS
THUNDERBIRD - Chris Caswell meets the perfect Hacker. Steel yourself
RONA - A GL Watson 'six-beamer' on her hundredth birthday in New Zealand. Shane Kelly and Michael Hall celebrate in words and pictures
REFLECTIONS OF A LONG DISTANCE SCULLER - Chris Freer traces the evolution of an efficient sliding seat rowboat
BOATS OF THE NORSE - Norwegian wood and steam in Mellemvaerftet and Lake Mjesa/with Anthony Dalton investigating
FROM DEEP KEELER TO FREE WHEELER - NicCompton finds a 16ft Oyster-catcher on Falmouth's Carrick Roads
GROWN TO ROW - A working dinghy restored, and a new build. Robin Gates dips an oar
THE BEACH BOATS OF EAST ANGLIA - Robert Simper and Bill McDonald recount the history of crabbers, lifeboats, and luggers
RE-INVENTING THE WHEEL - The helmsman is Stephen Mann
PROSE OR POETRY - An appreciation of EW Cooke's art through the eyes of James Taylor
THE TARBERT YAWL - In Part 2 Robin Gates looks at cedar strip and epoxy resin construction
FELUCCAS 0F THE NILE - Sailing north and south with Robert Simper, Chuck Brown, and Lawrence Tattersall as your guides
KEYSTONES - Part 2 of spiling looks at the tricky bits, with Bob Forsyth bevelling
BOOKSHELF
SOURCES
CHARTER AND BROKERAGE
MARINE DIRECTORY
STERNPOST - Dane Kirk Troels has a cure for homesickness in Norway. She's all wood, and her name is Ottilia