24′8″ Skipjack, Calico Jack
A direct descendant of Chesapeake Bay’s working skipjacks or two-sail bateaux, Calico Jack offers shoal-draft cruising for two and daysailing for a party—a big party. Designer Joe Gregory drew her...
Cruising
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24′ Open/Cruising Boat, Paketi
In Paketi, Australian designer David Payne has given us a handsome, easily constructed boat with lots of possibilities. Originally drawn as an open-cockpit daysailer and camp cruiser, the design has...
Wittholz 14′11″ Plywood Catboat
Here is an easily built small boat with a big heart. A seaworthy daysailer or vest-pocket cruiser, Corvus (named for the constellation known to mariners as the “gaff-rigged mainsail”) has...
28′2″ Cat-Ketch Sharpie Egret
Designed in 1886 as a workboat (to deliver mail), this remarkable flat-bottomed centerboard boat—Commodore Monroe’s only double-ended sharpie—has no surviving original plans. But the ideas embodied in Egret as interpreted...
32′5″ Sharpie Ketch, Two Lucys
Here’s an unusually well-thought-out sharpie with some special features that make her a good cruiser. Since lack of space in the cabin has been the common complaint with sharpies because...
22′11″ Yawl, Blue Moon
The designer’s aim of maximum cruising ability, seaworthiness, utility, and comfort in a craft of minimum dimensions was admirably achieved in this salty 23-footer inspired by the traditional oyster boats...
18′ Catboat
If your taste runs more to the traditional, and if your building skills are correspondingly more advanced, this 18-footer by Fenwick Williams might be worth considering. She’s only slightly larger...
24′ Gaff Yawl
Although designer Fenwick C. Williams is best know for his exquisite cruising catboats, his 24′ Gaff Yawl has proven herself to be an unusually fine combination of all the factors...
41′3″ Schooner, Malabar II
Few rigs charm the hearts of sailors as much as the schooner, and John Alden knew how to design cruising schooners that were fast and able, dry and comfortable. In...
19′ Cat Schooner
While many young sailors get their start in small one-design racing classes, some kids are born cruisers, with more of Tom Sawyer than Dennis Connor in their blood. These youngsters...
19′6″ Sloop Mist
Designer Karl Stambaugh has gone out of his way to ensure that this plywood pocket cruiser doesn’t look like a plywood boat. He drew the stem to stand proud, as...
25′9″ Lubec Boat
Right where the great Passamaquoddy Bay empties into the even mightier Bay of Fundy, is Lubec, Maine, the easternmost spot in the United States. This is a land of swirling...
25′10″ Sloop, Dark Harbor 17½
In 1908 B.B. Crowninshield was asked to draw up a one-design class of knockabouts to be initially know as the Manchester 17½. The class was to become one of the...
28′ Canoe Yawl, Rozinante
In the midst of the dark years of World War II, The Rudder magazine commissioned L. Francis Herreshoff to write a how-to-build article for a design that would give war-weary...
24′ Shore Liner
William and John Atkin designed this simple shoal-draft boat to sketches supplied by an experienced client, Commander Ed Hanks. Shore Liner is simply a large flat-bottomed skiff. Hanks, a knowledgeable...
30′ Sloop Yawl Malabar Jr.
Several different versions of the Malabar Jr. emerged from the offices of John Alden. The first, a 29½-footer available as either a gaff or marconi sloop, came out in 1924....
25′7″ Sea Bird Yawl
The V-bottomed yawl Sea Bird has occupied a legendary place in the annals of yachting since the first news of her launching in 1901. Conceived by Tom Day, founding editor...
24′11″ Alden Keel/Centerboard Sloop
Although the records indicate that no boats were built to this 1929 design, we are quite fascinated by its potential as a fast and able cruiser. We’re also impressed with...
21′2″ Alden Double-Ended Sloop
Double-enders have long been held in high esteem as seakeepers, from Viking longships to pinky schooners and North Sea Pilot cutters. It shouldn’t be surprising, then, to see this remarkably...