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      Boatbuilding During Breaks

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      Dudley Dix

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      The Didi 26 Kosatka (Russian for ‘Orca’) was built by Ivan Vasilyev in Irkutsk, Siberia. This was Ivan’s first attempt at amateur boatbuilding, seen here racing on Lake Baikal. Image Eugene Belemov

       

      “We are all in this together.” We have all heard that countless times recently. We are all together but separated, in a situation that we have never experienced before, with millions of people on enforced layoffs from work and education. We have little certainty of how long this is going to last; the initial round may be gone before this issue arrives in your mailbox but the experts warn of it coming back, maybe more than once, before technology gets the better of it. When it is here and the world slows to a crawl we can choose to lie all day and night on the sofa feeding our faces while binge-watching junk TV, or we can be productive.

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      BOAT REVIEW: Norwalk Islands Sharpie 18

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      Images SCA Associate Editor Marty Loken

      Traditional Ideas in a Modern Boat Design
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      Although there’s some evidence similar boats were built centuries earlier, ‘sharpies’, as we know them, are supposed to have originated in the New Haven Connecticut region of Long Island Sound. These narrow, hard-chined, flat-bottomed centreboarders began to replace the huge dugout canoes used there historically to work the shoals and oyster fisheries. They were boxy enough to be easily built, fast under sail, and they could work the shallowest of waters.

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