Issue #276 September/October 2020

Be sure to select PRINT or DIGITAL when you order. September/October 2020 FEATURES The Little Engine That Could” — 100 years of Beetle Cats by Stan Grayson TUGZILLA — A boat with a job to do by Lawrence W. Cheek A Smooth and Level Painted Finish — Parameters for success by Peter Marshall Aboard: EMPRESS OF BLANDINGS — by Tyler Fields The Safest Man on the Planet — A 94-day ocean row to reach a new kind of world by Jan J. Hein Building a Midget Flyer Runabout — Little boat, big fun — Part 2 by Mark Kaufman Variations on a Seam — Mitered and lapped chine planks in V-bottom construction by Harry Bryan The Legacy of Bill Orchard — How a son forged a working life in Picton, New Zealand by John Eichelsheim Getting Started in Boats: Handsaws: A primer — Tear-out supplement by Jan Adkins Cover: Sam Devlin acquired a partly completed 25′10″ boat he had designed for a client—who gave up on the project—then reconceived it as TUGZILLA, a working tugboat for Puget Sound. Photograph by Neil Rabinowitz     _________________  “Your downloads are ready” will be the subject line of an email you’ll receive from us—once we’ve processed your digital order. That email has the link to click, so you can then download the file. This isn't an "instant" process, so if we're asleep, you may need to wait for regular business hours, for us to process the order. Although we are quite timely, we may not be processing on weekends & holidays.