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Crabbing skiff Cinnamon Girl

Speaking of Chappelle as I was yesterday, I was very interested to see a post at Duckworksmagazine about a crabbing skiff described in his little book Crabbing Skiffs, and built from his drawings.

The book Crabbing Skiffs can still be obtained from the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, and anyone interested in these elegant but simple boats might also like to read Reuel Parker’s The Sharpie Book, which is now pretty well established as the standard introductory work on the topic of American sharpie-style boats, and includes enough information to build a range of boats ranging from small river boats to pocket cruisers based on traditional types.

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Tom Dunderdale’s Iota

I have been intrigued by Tom Dunderdale’s commentary relating to his Iota dinghy design for some weeks (see it here), not least because I am in the happy position of being able to test Tom’s suggestion that the 10ft dinghy design Howard Chappelle gives in his classic work Boatbuilding may have been inspired by an earlier design by Herbert J Ashcroft.

Being a book nut, I happen to own the Chappelle book, and another first published by Ashcroft in 1927. Ashcroft, I should explain, spent much of his life developing a Continue Reading »