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 Making Petrel Play

This series is my most complete documentation of a build project, spanning from designing the boat through launching the finished kayak.

About a month ago I got a call from Time.com. They were interested in using me and my boats in an ad for Lincoln. They had a very short turn around time and at first it looked like I was going to be away in Wales, but they had a little slippage in their schedule and they were able to fit me in when I got back.

How to Set Up a Router Table to cut Cove and Bead Cedar Strips

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I get a lot of calls from people with questions about going into business bulding boats. It can be hard to be realistic about the business while your head is stuck in the boat. Here are some of the questions and some long winded responses.

Persol Meets :: Guillemot Kayaks from Persol on Vimeo.

On a cold day last November I joined a camera crew from England on my friend Pete's boat Eyes of the World and pounded out into Long Island Sound. The goal was getting some footage for an ad for sunglasses. Persol makes high end sunglasses and were putting together a series of "documentary" videos on craftspeople that they felt somehow represented something about the Persol brand. The crew spent 3 days in town, getting footage in my shop and on the water.  I'm not sure how it sells sunglasses, but the video above is the result.

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Sometime back in the mid to early 1990's I read an article in WoodenBoat Magazine about building an icebox. I just did a little research and found the article.

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As of February 2012, the Kindle files should be updated so the issues discussed below no longer apply.

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I'm building a Night Heron kayak using cove and bead western red cedar. I'm taking some video as I go. I hope you find the following helpful.

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I'm using 4 ounce glass on the inside.

Last fall some folks from Bespoke Global came up to create a video interview with me. Bespoke Global is the first e-commerce website to aggregate best-in-class bespoke home furnishings and recently added a line of "Leisure" products including my custom built kayaks. They spent a couple days in my shop and surroundings interviewing me and getting on-the-water footage.

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For those of you who just can't have too many sources of hand made boat stuff coming into your smart phones and have a softspot in your heart for lo fidelity images that look like they were taken with a Polaroid and stuck to the fridge for 35 years; I've started posting the occasional photo on

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I don't and won't sell my mailing list. I collect a mailing list of people who would like to receive a newsletter. This is strictly "opt-in".

The End Pour

 A common question is "what is the end pour good for?" For t

With all the modern materials available to make boat, why would you want to choose wood? There are several reasons. The first is that working with wood is well within the means of most people. It doesn't take a lot of time, the material is relatively easy to obtain and it is not too expensive.

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An overview showing the process of building a cedar strip wooden kayak from start to finish.

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Hi I'm Nick Schade at Guillemot Kayaks, welcome episode number 18 of my series on making the strip built Petrel Play kayak.

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Hi I'm Nick Schade at Guillemot Kayaks, welcome episode number 17 of my series on making the strip built Petrel Play kayak.

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Last fall a 10 person camera crew spent all day here at my shop filming a segment for the A&E Network. I had wondered for a while what happened with all that effort. Recently someone on FaceBook messaged me saying he had seen something about me. Well, the above 30 second sequence is the result of 10 to 12 peoples working all day, plus how ever long it took them to prepare before and then edit afterwards.

Gerry and I headed up to Maine last weekend to scout out the locations for the Schoodic Sea Kayak Retreat.

It was Gerry's first time in the area. He and his wife are now looking into buying a place up there. There are loads of great paddling venues suitable to all skill levels of kayakers.

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This is the introduction to my series of videos documenting my building of a strip built Petrel Play. In this episode I describe the design, how I came up with it and what makes it special.

Video 2 in a series documenting my build of the Petrel Play. In this episode I cut the strips and set up the forms.

Video 3 in the series documenting the making of a strip-built kayak. Making the inner stems and installing the first strips

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Video Four in a series documenting the making of a strip built kayak. In the last episode I made the inner stems out of pine and tapered and installed the sheer strips.

In 2010 I started making a strip-built Petrel sea kayak using cedar strips, fiberglass and Carbon-Kevlar Cloth. I documented much of the process on video and below are the short videos I produced showing many of the building techniques incorporated.

First time builders with no woodworking experience have built just about all of the designs you will find here. But some designs are easier than others.

"Stitch and Glue" refers to "stitching" together panels of plywood with wire and then gluing the joints. A stitch and glue boat uses carefully cut panels of thin plywood which when joined together bend into the desired 3 dimensional shape.

Building a kayak using either the strip-built or stitch-and-glue method is within the means of most people who want to do it. Neither method is particularly difficult for anyone who is willing to take the time required.

One of the biggest benefits to building a small boat with narrow strips is how accessible it is. While it looks intimidating, taking a bundle of small strips and wrapping them around a set of forms really is a matter of patience and not one of specialized skills.

Because stitch-and-glue boat construction uses a relatively small number of wood pieces a boat can be build in relatively short order. Because plywood is inherently quite strong for its weight the resulting boat is quite tough and lightweight with a minimum of additional reinforcement.

We do not have a show room or store front, but visitors are welcome to visit by appointment only. If you want to try one of our boats, we are right on the water so bring paddling clothes.

A stitch and glue boat will typically use three or four sheets of 4mm Occume marine plywood. With careful cutting you may be able to be more efficient.

These plans are product of Nick's years of boating experience and extensive research into what makes boats work. Each design starts out as an idea spawned on the water. Time out in boats will suggest how a boat could be tailored to perform better in specific conditions.

How fast is your boat? Do you know? Does the question even make sense? Isn't any boat going to go faster if you apply more power to making it move? What people really should ask is" "how efficient is your boat?"

Don't let the "sea" in "sea kayak" intimidate you. Kayaks designed to work on saltwater will work just fine on fresh water.

If you strap a wooden boat to your roof and drive to a put in for a paddle, you will need to learn to deal with the inevitable delays that occur when people gather around your car to ask about your boat. "Where did you get it?", "How much did it cost?", "You didn't build that.", and on and on.

Taking pictures while on the water. Photo by Carl Tjerandsen

I currently am not able to have you share photos on the site.

Here is a list of books and other texts related to kayaks, kayaking, kayak design, boat design, woodworking and boat building that may be of interest to anyone interested in building their own kayak.

Here is a step-by-step overview of the process of building a strip kayak as described in my book. The bulleted links are to videos showing the process.

Here are links to sources of some of the materials, tools and books useful to people building wooden kayaks. This is not a complete listing just some of those I can find on the net. 

T-shirts and various other clothing as it becomes available.

Most of time in small boat like a kayak navigation is done by sight. In other words, you see where you want to go, point the boat that direction and go. This is not to down play the need for a good chart and a compass.

He said, "I was out there and the waves must have been 6 feet." Funny, I was out there at the same time and didn't see anything bigger than 18 inches. What is going on? Estimating wave height is very difficult. Sitting down in a kayak, low to the water, waves look pretty big.

There are many factors you should consider when you decide where you are going and how you will get there. Wind, waves and currents are the primary forces that will effect how easily and safely you will be able to get from one point to another in a small boat.

"If you want to turn left, paddle more on the right." This is usually the advice provided to a first time paddler. And often it is all the instructions they will ever receive on the subject of maneuvering a kayak.

This page will include any updates or corrections to the information in the book. If you see any mistakes in the book, please let me know at Email Nick Schade.

Strip-building - assembling a pile of thin wood strips into a functional hull - has been a popular canoe-building method for many years.

Strip-building is the art of taking a stack of small strips of wood and converting it into a beautiful and durable water craft. This process has b

Carl and I were the only ones to show up. I guess other people looked at the weather and thought better of it. It wasn't particularly cold, but it wasn't exactly warm. They were talking snow, but the clouds were cracked, showing a little blue and the occasional glimpse of the sun.

Pete sent out the plan last Friday before we had a good idea what the weather was going to be: "December 26 - Launch from Stonington Point and paddle out to Latimer Reef and beyond to Fisher's Island to look for seals." When I woke up on Monday it was raining hard, but it was warm at around 40 de

Over the course of 4 evenings you will learn how to make your own modern wooden kayak paddle. The paddle can be adapted for sea kayaking, recreational boating or white water. You will learn about laminating, scarfing, shaping wood and fiberglassing.

In this workshop Nick will demonstrate the details of strip-building a kayak or other small boat. The details of what is covered will depend on what people are interested in.

Nick has a slideshow that provides an overview of the various methods of building wooden kayak. Topics covered include Skin-on-frame, Stitch-and-Glue, and Strip Built methods plus a discussion of repairing the boats if damaged, various outfitting techniques and making a wooden paddle.

I recently did a Google search on "WoodenBoat School" I noticed that my Build Your Own Night Heron course at the school came up as the second link after the actual Wood

We have received some great free publicity from a variety of magazines and newspapers. Those included below are just a partial list. See a more complete list of Guillemot Kayaks in the Press here.

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ForbesLife Magazine featured Guillemot Kayaks in The Eye in their special culture issue. The article says: "Schade's kayaks are head-swivelingly beatiful..." and quotes Edgar Bronfman about his Night Heron "It's awesome to look at and it flies."

ConnYak the local paddling club is having their annual slide show tonight, so I put together a couple videos from last summer's paddling.

I put together a somewhat longer video of a trip in Frenchman Bay, Maine. It starts along Long Porcupine Island near The Hop, and ends along Mt Desert Island near Otter Cliffs.

I decided to enter my Petrel into this year's Woodenboat Show Concourse d'Elegance.

Internationally recognized kayak and small boat designer Nick Schade, ow

Wayne suggested the idea. At first I was waffling.

Since creating the new website, I have transfered much of the old info on to the new site, but I have not transfered everything. The old pages still exist.

It has been exceptionally warm this winter. I would like some nice cross country skiing weather, but a nice warm day out on the water is always appreciated. Carl wanted to get out around 9, but I didn't feel like rushing out of the house early.

After a lot of thought, I have decided to increase the prices on my boat plans.

I want to make the building process as easy as possible.

Steve Grant is a writer for the Hartford Courant who tends to write articles about the outdoors and environmental issues.

My S&G Night Heron Class at the WoodenBoat School in September still has spaces available. This is a fun class in a great location.

I was talking to John Harris at Chesapeake Light Craft last fall. As the conversation wandered around various boats and projects we were working on, it became apparent that we each had some issues that we might be able help each other with.

I'm heading up to Maine for a bit of paddling and to exhibit at the Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors Show in Rockland. I'll be gone from July 28 through August 14. I'll be paddling with friends and thinking up new ideas for boats.

Plans Now Available

In July I finished up the prototype of a new canoe design. The Nymph is a 10' long by 28" wide solo double-paddle canoe. It is designed for paddlers under 150 lbs and the prototype weighs about 15 pounds.

I've been playing around with taking video using a Pentax Optio W10 that I have strapped to a helmet. The quality of the video is not great, but the results are kind of fun.

After teaching my class at the WoodenBoat School, I got a chance to head up to Blue Hill for some play time. There is a reversing falls that has a nice play wave popular with the whitewater crowd.

A strip built boat is made of small strips of wood so if you were wondering where the name came from, now you know. The method is often called cedar strip, because the wood used is typically cedar. It does not have to be. Any straight grained, light-weight wood can be used.

The word "baidarka" is actually a Russian word. It is the diminutive form of "baidar" which means "boat" so "baidarka" means "small boat".

The Guillemot family of kayak designs grew out my quest to create a kayak to bring my out to the exposed islands off the coast of Maine. I wanted a boat that would be efficient for making open water crossings yet responsive in close to shore.

The Great Auk family of designs grew out my first efforts to design a kayak.

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Not all my designs fit neatly into one of my families of kayak designs, in fact I also design some boat whic

Hybrid construction could mean any method of building a boat which combines two different building techniques.

The range of kayaks types is as varied as there are different bodies of water.

A sunny summer day on a small lake or pond just cries out for a

While sea kayaks were originally designed for use on the ocean, they are at hom

The original kayaks were built by the Inuit and Aleut "Eskimo" peoples of the Arctic.

Strip building is

The successful design of any boat is a subtle blend of art and science. While there is a lot of room for personal preference and choice, there is also much that is constrained by the immutable laws of physics.

Despite all the times I have heard people protest "I would be afraid to put it in the water." I design and build my boats to be used.

Relative to many boats a kayak is small, unstable, and rather slow. In a lot of ways these attributes can make kayaks unsafe. To a larger degree than most boats the safety of the person on the boat is dependent on the skill and judgement of the paddler.

A description of boat design terms and how they relate to boat performance.

For those who prefer French, André Rose has translated this.

What could be easier than stability? Just make the boat wide and it will be stable … right? Yet, there are kayaks out there from 20" to 32" wide, all of which the manufacturers say are stable. After all, what manufacturer is going to say, "you need to be born in a kayak to keep this sucker upright"? How can they all get away with this? And what is "secondary stability" anyway? I know from personal experience that this question will provoke a discussion that can go on for days.

Guillemot Kayaks provides a wide range of products and services relating to wooden kayaks and other boats.

Guillemot Kayaks specializes in small wooden boats that are light enough to transport on the roof of your car.

In the pages below you will find various items to enhance your kayaking experience, from clothing to accessories for your boat and home. If you are looking for a gift idea for the paddler in your family, this is the place to look.

 

 

Guillemot Kayaks has been offering complete plans and instructions for building high performance wooden kayaks since 1993. Each kayak plan includes all the forms drawn out at full size and individually. No copying or lofting is required, just glue the plans to your form material and cut out around the lines. Each plan is printed out as an original to minimize any chance of errors being introduced in the reproduction process.

There are a lot of different kinds of racing kayaks, but almost all have the characteri

Traditionally kayaks were solo boats, but a tandem or double kayak is a gre

Are you not average?

While the idea of getting in a kayak and spending a week paddling from island to island has a lot of appeal, for many people finding the time to spend a week on the water is difficult.

Yes, on most of my boats, the hatches are flush and the hatch covers are just the pieces of wood cut out of the deck to create the hatch hole. This means that the hatch virtually disappears on the deck.

Guillemot Kayaks does not make kits, however several companies make quality kits for Guillemot Kayaks designs. Please view the Kayak Kits page for more information.

The amount of time you take to build a small boat will depend on you previous experience, willingness to push forward, and your attitude. It is possible to pump out in 60 hours, or if you are being a perfectionist, you may end up putting 400 hours into it before you christen the finished boat.

"Strip-Building" is the art of bending many, small, thin strips of wood around forms to create a boat shape. The wood is covered with fiberglass cloth and epoxy resin then removed from the forms and the inside is fiberglassed.

Most of the cost of building a kayak is labor, but doing the work is part of the fun so we won't count that here.

Most wooden boats will actually weigh less than commercially manufactured boats. Because wood is structurally efficient, a boat built with it can be made quite light. The only real downside of wood is that since it is a natural material it is not necessarily consistent in its weight.

A guillemot is a bird I see frequently in

To build a striper from scratch you the minimum tools needed:
Table Saw or Band Saw, (Not required with the kits)
Jig Saw
Block Plane,
Thin Kerf Hand Saw,
Jack Knife,
Sanding Blocks.
A selection of clamps

Touring boats have two requirements, they need to have room for gear, and they need to be able to cover distance efficiently. Room to carry gear is primarily a function of boat volume, to more volume, the more room to carry gear.

The most accessible techniques for do-it-yourself boat builders involves using wood.

The details section at the bottom of the kayak design pages uses some symbols to help you find the boat that is appropriate for you. Each boat is rated in various categories so you can quickly pick out the general characteristics of the boat at a glance.

This is a fast paced class which will get you through most of the most difficult steps involved in building a stitch and glue kayak. The first day will deal primarily with preparing the parts for the the busier days to follow. You will need determine your staining scheme.

Some of the schools may have some of these tools, but if you want to be better prepared with your own tools these are what we use:

You may have read books about how to navigate in a kayak. Chances are you were slightly overwhelmed by some of the techniques.

"Tracking" has become a somewhat nebulous term when used in reference to sea kayaks. For most people it has something to do with how easily the kayak turns. In this context a boat with "good" tracking is one that is hard to turn and one that doesn't track tends to be easy to turn.

One of the most important aspects of kayaking comfortably and easily is your paddle. An efficient kayak is of no use if the paddle you use is inefficient, or if you use your otherwise efficient paddle in an inefficient manner.

This is probably the most frequently asked question and unfortunately, it is the hardest to answer. The right boat for you will depend on you. It depends on what you want to do, your experience level and your size. Before you ask for a recommendation you will need to think about what you need.

Several of my designs are suitable for smaller paddlers. Which boat is really suitable still depends your experience level and what you want to do on the water. Generally you will want to look at the shorter boats, these boats will be lighter and easier to handle on and off the water.

There are two ways of being larger, you could be tall and have trouble fitting into most kayaks, or you could be heavy and need a design with more displacement for efficient paddling. Tall paddlers may have trouble getting in and out of small cockpits.

The primary concern for most beginners is capsizing. Unplanned swims are worth thinking about, but should not be the only criteria. You also want a boat that will not be difficult to handle. A high performance kayak may be a little skittish - always trying to head off and do its own thing.

Dissatisfied

If you are dissatisfied with the plans for any reason, please return them in the original mailing tube for a full refund. The plans must be in the condition you received them, with no torn, wrinkled or soiled pages.

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The Petrel has a hard chine.

On this Petrel I chose to do a "side herringbone" stripping pattern on t

Stripping the bottom is much like installing the cheater strips, with the major difference that you need to shape and fit both ends of the strip so the length is correct. Since I am bookmatching these strips I also need to do this while maintaining the grain alignment.

After working diligently on stripping the bottom you eventually come to

After the stripping is done on the hull, it is time to flip it over.

The sheer strip on the deck are similar to the

The easiest way to set up the forms for woodstrip kayak is using an inte

Cutting strips is always a little tedious. It is primarily a matter of feeding the wood through the saw. When you intend to bookmatch the strips on the boat you also need to keep the strips in order.

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I use my Mystery almost daily. I put in the Poquonock River and paddle out to Pine Island and back. As a result of that an my natural impatience I leave it outside most of the summer. As you may imagine, this is pretty hard on the boat and particularly the varnish.

Believe it or not, there are still people out there who prefer reading a good, old-fashioned print catalog over going online and browsing through web pages. In fact, you may be one of those people. If so, I have put together a catalog.

I need to ship out a boat and decided it would be good protection to have a fabric kayak cover defending it from scratches. For these purposes I do not need a weatherproof fabric so I went to the local fabric store and picked up some knit jersey material.

For the deck I wanted the stern to match the bow as well as book matched

The Petrel

If you have a blog with a feed reader or want to subscribe to the Guillemot Kayak blog feed, you can now click on the small RSS icon on the lower ri

Like the feature line on

You don't need to see more sanding, but that is what needs to happen before glassing the inside

Preparation

The hole pretty much defines the shape so

I put together a couple small photo books showing an overview of the building process for my Nymph canoe and Petrel kayak.

I've got mixed feelings about deck lines.

While many people mount these hip-braces or as I call them "cheek plates" so they extend from th

Free boat plans for building a strip-built baidarka style sea kayak

19' long by 17 1/8" wide

Something Awfully Familiar

A few months back I saw an image on Facebook that looked familiar.

My Petrel has been my primary boat for a long time. It has been through some serious abuse over the years.

I want a canoe. I love kayaks and the Nymph canoe is great fun, but there are time when my wife Robin and I want to hop into a boat after dinner and go for a relaxing paddle. And for a simple no-nonsense paddle there is really nothing like a canoe.

If you like to have a little reading material hanging around the house I've put together a print version of my plans catalog.

The workshops where these classes are held are generally very well equipped, however there may not be enough of every tool for everyone, so to get the most out of your time in class, it is a good idea to bring whatever tools you can.

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More social media from Guillemot Kayaks.

The Petrel has a unique recess around the cockpit. This lowers the back of the coaming which allows for easier rolling and it also helps create a good place for thigh/knee braces.

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Using stains to add a little extra color to your boat.

There is no accounting for taste, but for some reason I find okoume a little bit boring. While the grain can be quite nice, the color is often a little bland. In my opinion it would often benefit from a little pumping up.

Here is where you start to see the beauty of the wood.

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I'm applying two different sort of fill coats in this video.

I just got back from teaching the

It is one thing to want to build a boat, it can be quite another to actually make it happen. Many people don't think they can do it on their own.

Strip planked boats are beautiful lightweight and rugged.

Anyone building a strip-built boat from scratch eventually has to decide how much wood they need. At the same time they may be curious as to how much the boat is going to weigh.

I got a call from Bob Van Dyke of CVSW the other day.

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For those of you who have caught the Facebook bug, I've put up a Guillemot Kayaks Page. I've posted a few videos and will maintain an events calendar there.

• Part 1 The Background
  • 1 Introduction
    • The Strip-Building Method
    • What You Need to Build a Boat
    • Three Strip-Building Projects
  • 2 Materials
    • Wood
    • Resin
    • Reinforcing

Let's get this clear from the start: it is a waste of time to build your own wooden boat.

There are often situations where you need to trim a group of strips tofollow a line, such as a chine or keel line.

I have started sending out periodical newsletters through Constant Contact. Here is a copy of the first issues. Actually it is the second issue of my newsletter because I had sent one out via standard mail previous.

I recently took on the task of designing and building a skin-on-frame kayak in the Greenland Inuit style. "Designing" a SOF kayak before building isn't really the traditional way.

"Schade’s kayaks are head-swivelingly beautiful"

Just got

There is still a few spaces available at my Build-your-own S&G Night Heron Class at the WoodenBoat School in Broo

Since I sell many of the boats I make, I like to document them before I send them off into the world. While I like on-the-water shot, I often have need for studio style shots that don't have the distraction of a background. Typically a white or black background works well.

I like a good set of reference lines on all my forms. These are usually supplied by gluing the paper form patterns to the MDF and leaving them there. The patterns have the reference lines so everything is good.

I'm about to start building the first boats in my new shop. I'm going to exhibit at the Maine Boat Builder's Show and I need some boats to bring to it.

Tropical storm Noel swept by New England in late October and sent some fun waves towards Napatree Point. I didn't get much good footage while paddling, but the resulting video is still fun.

It has been a long time since I have made any new entries on my blog. I hope my excuse is considered a good one.

Over Labor Day weekend I attended the second annual New England Intermediate Rough Water Symposium hosted by Tom Bergh of Maine Island Kayak Company.

NOTE: Due to spammers I have temporarily shut down the ability to submit photos. I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

You can shop at www.Guillemot-Kayaks.com online with confidence. We have partnered with Authorize.Net, a leading payment gateway since 1996, to offer safe and secure credit card transactions for our customers.

Well, it has taken a while but I finally have the latest version of my website content management system up and running. The new system finally brings my online catalog into the main website proper which should make it easier to find what you want to find.

I spent the weekend up in Manchester, CT teaching the S&G Night Heron class at the Connecticut Valley School of Woodworking. The class will continue next weekend.

There is a whole community of people out in cyberspace who are into kayaks and other small boats, either building them or using them or even just admiring them. Below are some links to a few places where you can get to know some of these people.

Despite my best efforts some errors found their way into the offsetspublished for not just one, but all three boats in the book.

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