11'x48" Whitehall sailing dinghy, decking and floatation added to original design. You can get drawings for this dinghy at a very reasonable price from:
Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc. 75 Greenmanville Avenue, P. O. Box 6000, Mystic, CT 06355-0990 Their phone is: (860)572-5360 or (860)572-5319 (TDD). Specify: Whitehall type UNNAMED, LOA: 11.0 ft. ( 1973.22.0 )
Books and Magazines:
The Stripper's Guide to Canoe-building is available from:
For general information about do-it-yourself wood boatbuilding books, plans, kits, and lumber, visit the web page of: Flounder Bay Boat Lumber in Anacortes, Washington, USA. The owners have retired and are looking for a buyer, but the website is still up (April 19, 2005).
For alot of good books, including The Stripper's Guide to Canoe-building, browse or search the site of Databoat International Limited in Whistler, BC, Canada.
WoodenBoat Publications is a good source of technical information and plans through their store, magazines, books, and Wooden Boat School.
Canoe & Kayak Magazine has information on paddling/outdoor equipment and services, what's new on the market, and where to find the best places to paddle.
Valley Woodworking in Rochester, N.Y. makes full-size and scaled-down model wood-strip canoes.
Franklin Cedar Canoes in Franklin, Maine builds a rib and plank version covered either in canvas or clear fiberglass, or a strip-built version of four different canoe models, and sells the plans for the same; also sells hand-carved hardwood paddles and canoe sailing plans.
Headwater Wooden Boat Shop Dick Persson in Buckhorn, Ontario, Canada does repairs, restorations, and builds wood-canvas canoes, kayaks, and other small boats.
Red River Canoe & Paddle Doug Ingram in Lorette, Manitoba, Canada, makes double and single-blade hardwood paddles, wood and canvas canoes as well as woodstrip canoes, rowboats, kayaks and sailboats; also canoe restoration, solo canoes, and instruction in building and paddling canoes.
Wood River Canoe Company Tom Byers in northern Ontario, Canada produces birchbark canoes crafted with natural materials in traditional tribal styles. Site is linked to annoying pop-up ads.
ACA National Sailing Committee
The ACA Rig a 44 square foot high-aspect sleeved lateen sail for $220.
Cedar Island Canoes - Sailing Canoe Accessories Tom Tomkins in Virginia sells sails and rigging supplies.
Lost in the Woods Boatworks -- a wooden boatbuilder in northern Ontario, Canada, and a source for sailing canoe rigs, conversion kits, parts, plans, and John Bull's "Sail Your Canoe" book.
PolySails includes illustrated instructions for polytarp sailmaking in one day, good for experimenting.
Making the Tyvek Sail less stretchy than polytarp, also good for experiments.
Five Lakes Wooden Boat Center includes illustrated W.P. Stephens text "Canoe and Boatbuilding for Amateurs", Canoe Sailing Resources bibliography, text "Setting Up Your Sailing Canoe Rig"
Historical Archives Tim Gittens' collection of line drawings of decked sailing canoes. (I got an "access forbidden" message when I tried the link 4/19/05)
Building A Rig
-- how to build a leeboard
Jim Michalak's Boat Designs/The Index technical stuff on sail and underwater board design, boat trailers and cartopping.
Craig O'Donnell's The Cheap Pages includes material on Proas, Sailing Canoes, Chinese Lugsails, Plywood Boats, Odd Sails from Polytarp, and a valuable collection of links to historic and current boatbuilding technology.
Links to more links: Meta-links
The Mother of All Maritime Links
Kayak Building Reports
There is information here about all different methods of making sea kayaks including: strip-built (or wood strip, cedar strip, etc.); stitch-and-glue (or tack-and-tape); traditional (or skin-on-frame, wood and canvas); and some others, including Building Paddles, Bulletin Boards, etc.
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