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- Note all links fixed as of 22 June 2013 (links change and become dated - sigh)
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Description
Oar Links
Gartside boats
Leathering Oars
Polymarine.com
Oar Accessories
Duckworks Magazine Article
Article on building home made wooden oars
Van Fancy Oars
Good quality and affordable oars and paddles
Fyne Boat Kits - Oars for sale
Spoon Blade Wood Oars
Duckworks Magazine Store
Oar Accessories and more
Grapeview point Boatworks
Excellent advice on oar information
Shaw and Tenney
Oar length caclulator and more
Home made Oar patterns
Patterns for building flat bladed oars by Chesapeake Light Craft
Free Oar Plans
Two pdf oar building links at bottom of page. Note oar blades too wide IMHO
Oar Building Video
Youtube video of building high quality wooden oars, very good
Dory Plans
Hannus Homepage
Excellent site on small boats and wood properties. LINK FIXED
Youkou Lili
Potential Microcruiser
Gig Harbour Boats
Several nice traditional styled boats
Selway Fisher
Dories from Selway Fisher
Glen-L Designs
18.5ft double chines sailing dory
Dory Plans
Free dory plans in download section of this website
Butler projects
Several boats plans including sailing and rowing dories
Spira International
Many boat plans including some beamy dories
Small boat forum
Excellent article in pdf format (large file size) on many dory types
Other Boat Plans
Otter 16 Dingy
Boatplans Online Website
Penobscot 17 Dingy
Arch Davis Design
Free boat plans
Heaps of free boat plans
Watchet Boat Museum
Some old British boats including the turf boat
Duckworks Magazine
List of plans from Duckworks
Duckworks Magazine
Duckworks list of designers and their plans
Gartside Boats
Some very nice sailing and rowing skiffs
Steve Lewis
Several very practical boat plans
Chesapeake Light Craft
Many light boat and kayak plans
Atkin Boat Plans
Many, many old boat plans, well worth a look
B & B boat plans
Some well thought out small boats
Chesapeake Marine Design
Some small boats with excellent lines
Gavin Atkin boat plans
Lots and lots of skillful free boat plans
John Welsford boat designs
Large range of modern wood boats from 8 to 22ft
101 Scandinavian designs
Beautiful traditional boats, LINK UPDATED
Wherry Plans
Baker Boat Works
Skiff, Wherry and Whitehall plans in pdf format
Duck Trap wherry
Plans for a 16' Wherry
Annapolis Wherry
A 17'9 Wherry kit, though no plans
Small Multihulls
Tridarka
A double outrigger canoe with plans
Triak
A small double outrigger kayak
Small Trimarans.com
The best website for small trimarans, unfortunately in blog format
Microship.com
A very informative article on an 18ft tri
Tri-Star18
An 18ft trimaran with plans
A18T Trimaran
18ft trimaran by Chris Ostlind
Cross 18
18ft plywood trimaran by Norman Cross - is this link dead?
Magnum 18
Yet one more 18ft trimaran
Slidercat
16ft catamaran for minimalist cruising
Crab claw catamaran
A catamaran with bipod mast and crab claw sail
Gary Dierking Website
Excellent website on many and varied sailing outrigger canoes
Seaclipper 16
5m plywood trimaran by John Marples
Trilars
Small double outrigger
LW15.5
Warren Light Craft double outrigger sailing kayak
Tacking Outriggers
Flaquita - LINK UPDATED
An impressive 16ft tacking outrigger with plans
Salmo 19
19ft Tacking outrigger from Poland
Micromegas 3
Across the Atlantic in small multi by two French brothers
Malibu Outrigger
A 19ft tacking outrigger, with 2000 built
Tim Andersons voyage
Seattle to Alaska via simple outrigger canoe
Cape Falcon Kayak
Skin on frame 20ft outrigger canoe
Tim Anderson again
Almost to Cuba in a tacking outrigger
A64 Tacking outrigger
21ft tacking outrigger by Chris Ostlind
Kejak tacking outrigger
Tacking Outrigger as seen on Duckworks magazine
Hans Klaar
70ft double outrigger, so impressive
Arpex
30ft tacking outrigger by Peter Mirow
Slightly Larger Multihulls
Tremolino Tri
The famous 23ft trimaran by Dick Newick
Trailertri
The original Ian Farrier folding trimaran
Weekender Catamaran
18ft catamaran by Thomas Firth Jones
Trikala 19
19ft trimaran by Kurt Hughes
Astus Trimarans
modern trimarans in four varying sizes
Kendrick Designs
modern trimaran plans for eight different boats
Buccaneer 24 tri
Lock Crowthers fast tri
Trinardo
Trimaran in development, with Tornado hulls as amas
Soling Tri
Trimaran made by modification on Soling yacht
SeaRail 19
A high performance 19ft trimaran
Sea Pearl Tri
Trimaran version of Sea Pearl 21 boat
Tritium 720
7.2m trimaran
Proa Links
WikiProa
A good resource about proas
proa_file yahoo group
Was the best discussion group about proas, but now ...hmm
ProaForum.com
The new proa forum, this now where it is
Pacific Proa
The absolute best resource for proa information
Tdem Proa and Canoe Links
Large list of proa and outrigger canoe links
Harmen Hielkema
Toroa proa and more
Harry Proa
Weight to windward proas
Proafile.com
Michael Schact's excellent blog
Mbuli Proa
20ft pacific proa, plans available
Tahiti1.com
Traditional Pacific outriggers
Mulithull.de
Historic proa photographs - comprehensive
Project Windrigger
Ian Smith and his work with small multihulls - LINK UPDATED
Taimaui.org
Big website regarding proas from different Islands
Cheap Pages proas
Interesting work on Proas by Craig O'Donnell
Yet More Links
Boat Links
Mother of all maritime lniks - NEW LINK
70 point 8 percent
Excellent boat related blog
ChineBlog.com
Boat related blog, includes a skin on frame outrigger sailing canoe
Wharram
Popular and simple cruising catamarans
Vietnam Boats
Traditional Vietnamese boats
GA Boats
Geodesic skin on frame boats
BoatDesign.net
An occasional good post in the forum, articles as well
Glenn Tieman's boat
38ft Wharram catamaran for 14K, just wow!
Traditional Boats
Traditional boats forum
Lateen sail
Racing video of lateen rigged sailboats
Tohastus outboard
Crossing an ocean with a 2.5hp outboard
Nigel Irens
Efficient powered multihulls from a famed designer
Woodwork Forums
Comprehensive forums on woodworking, including boatbuilding
Christine Merchant.com
Excellent article on what makes a good rowboat
Small Trimarans.com
An up to date and most comprehensive blog
HMY Yachts
Timeline of Ships, Boats and Yachts
Other Links
The Guardian
Good source of news, maybe UK version is not as light
Vice News
This alternative news source is much better than mainstream
New York Times
Meant to be good, but is actually drivel, just admit it
The Age
My old source of news, now second rate
Chess.com
Good place to spend time and improve your game
Uglyships.com
Kind of self explanatory - darn good though
Shipbucket.com
Nice to see what some ships look like
ABC Radio National
My Australian place for intellectual stimulation - f**ing good
Population Connection
Deals with the huge issue of global overpopulation
The economist magazine
High quality articles, obviously often economics based
Mother Jones
Excellent high quality journalism
Robert Fisk
The best middle east journalism there is