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We've been getting a lot of calls and orders from builders racing to finish their boats as the latter part of summer approaches. Expert builder Dan Mattson stopped by recently to finish the rigging of his beautiful new SCAMP, with SCAMP oracle, Simeon Baldwin. meeting him here to assist. Dan's SCAMP features all kinds of Duckworks parts, from the bronze port kit to the bronze cleats, to the hatches and pintles and gudgeons. …

What if your trailerable boat doesn't sit in a slip year-round like most big boats, but it does sometimes spend weeks or even months in the water?Many of us take our boat on one or two extended cruises each year, or perhaps leave our boat in a slip for easy access for a month, but does this warrant the labor and expense of anti-fouling bottom paint? Maybe not, but pulling your boat out to find the bottom covered in barnacles, mussels, and algae isn’t good either.A friend recently told us about a …

It's that time of the year where some of you are racing to finish your boat before the weather turns, while others have conceded to continuing with a winter project and an eye on a spring 2021 launch. Above is a Wood Duck 12 kayak from CLC that owner Richard has fitted with the Michael Storer drop-in sail rig. Richard says he just spent a rainy and unusually cold weekend on "Lac Du Der" in northeast France, sailing and fishing in F3 conditions, "dodging into the r …