About CABBS

Founded in 1967, CABBS brings together people who share a passion for building, sailing, paddling, and motoring in boats. Through meetings, outings, and a lending library, members have an opportunity to learn and have fun wtih those who share a similar interest. Visitors are always welcome at CABBS activities.

#16 May/June '77 The Construction of GOLDEN DAZY Repairing a Cruiser Transom An Expert's Views on Varnishing Planking the Maine Lobsterboat.

#17 July/Aug '77 New Frontiers: The Pacific Northwest Evaluating Sheathing Materials Italy's Premier Boatbuilders Surfboating on the Jersey Shore.

#18 Sept/Oct '77 Building the Adirondack Guideboat Another Bolger Triumph New England's Lowells and Their Dories ENDLESS SUMMER.

#19 Nov/Dec '77 Sailing Canoes of Polynesia The Banks Dory Taking Off Lines The Wooden Boat Festival.

#20 Jan/Feb '78 Make Your Own Rudder Repairing the Cabintop St. Lawrence Rowing Skiffs The Life and Times of Colin Archer.

#21 Mar/April '78 Maintaining the Seams and Topsides How to Understand Boat Plans A Wooden Submarine Building Racing Shells.

#22 May/June '78 Deck Canvasing: The State of the Art Practical Bottom Maintenance Classic Cruisers: Power & Sail The Versatile Leeboard.

#23 July/Aug '78 A Norwegian Boatbuilding School Electrolysis-Debunking the Myths The Classic Speedboats of Lake Tahoe Multihulls.

#24 Sept/Oct '78 A Sailing Whitehall The Genius of Laurent Giles Getting the Feel of Caulking Cold Molding: A Powerboat for Today.

#36 Sept/Oct '80 Understanding Marine Insurance The Birchbark Canoe Lives On How to Build a Seaworthy Sailing Canoe The Versatile Swampscott Dory.

#37 Nov/Dec '80 The Alaska Limit Seiner The History of Small Yacht Design Part I Finishing of the Seaworthy Sailing Canoe Milling Your Own Lumber.

#38 Jan/Feb '81 The Oldest Known Boat in the World The Preservation of Ships and Skills The Remarkable Herreshoff MEADOW LARK Boats to Build from a Kit.

#39 Mar/April '81 The Maine Schooner Making Patterns for Castings More Boats from Kits Stem Repairs and Replacements.

#42 Sept/Oct '81 Planking the Plywood Dory Sailing Workboats for the Future Wooden Yachts That Earn Their Keep A Survey of Boatbuilding Schools.

#43 Nov/Dec '81 The Sea Bird Yawl Revisited Teaching Yourself to Build Boats Newport's First Wooden Boat Show Finishing Off the Plywood Dory.

#44 Jan/Feb '82 A New Classic Runabout SEA BIRD's Atlantic Crossing Maritime Preservation Comparing Carvel and Cold-Molded Construction.

#45 Mar/April '82 Classics in Sail and Power Boatbuilding Woods Vic Carpenter A Seaworthy Plywood Tender.

#46 May/June '82 Laying a Tight Deck Details of Outstanding Craftsmanship English Maritime Museums Planking a Plywood Tender.

#47 July/Aug '82 Saw Sharpening Tough Competition from Wooden Daysailers A Penny-Pinching Power Cruiser Craftsmanship on Deck.

#48 Sept/Oct '82 Early Runabouts The Northwest's Frank Prothero An Inexpensive Boat Shelter You Can Build Keeping Power Saws Sharp.

#49 Nov/Dec '82 The Masterful Work of Malcolm Brewer Small Boatbuilding Norwegian Style Quick & Dirty Boatbuilding Replacing the Keel.

#50 Jan/Feb '83 San Francisco's Nunes Brothers Cutting Your Own Natural Crooks Boats and Builders in Ireland Improving a Classic Dinghy.

#51 Mar/April '83 Conversations with Bud McIntosh Restoring a Burned-Out Yacht John Gardner's Plywood Bateau Building the Wayfarer Dinghy Kit.

#52 May/June '83 Lesson from a Great Lakes Schooner A Cold-Molded Rejuvenation Elegant Launches from Venice Building the Concordia Beetle Cats.

#53 July/Aug '83 Making Gaff Rig Work to Windward Folding Boats at Sea An Elegant Classic Plank Repair and Replacement.

#54 Sept/Oct '83 Build AMERICA's Half Model Plywood Boats for Oar & Paddle Winter Covers Auxiliary Engines: Diesel & Gas.

#55 Nov/Dec '83 L. Francis Herreshoff The Schooner WANDER BIRD Restoring Molded Wooden Boats The Greatest Little Motorboat.

#56 Jan/Feb '84 The First Planing Power Cruisers A Classic in Lapstrake Plywood The Sharpie for All Seasons Restoring a Herreshoff 1211/42.

#57 Mar/April '84 One Ultimate Wooden Yacht Sailing the Bermuda Dinghy Restoration to the Highest Standards Making Your Boat Tight Again.

#58 May/June '84 Getting Into Kayaks Sailing the Tancook Schooner Steam-Bending as a Science Modern Wooden Shipbuilding.

#59 July/Aug '84 An Amphibious Cat-Ketch Outlook for World Timber Hawaii's Koa Canoes On Glues and Gluing.

#60 Sept/Oct '84 How to Buy a Wooden Boat The Perfect Pram Cold-Molded Sheathing Celebration of Wooden Boats.

#61 Nov/Dec '84 Build a Fast Plywood Single Shell A High-Performance River Boat Step-by-Step Cold-Molded Sheathing A Legacy of Ship Preservation.

#62 Jan/Feb '85 Step-by-Step Traditional Teak Grates Lake Tahoe's Elegant Classics The Forward Thinking of Henry Scheel.

#63 Mar/April '85 Hot Ideas for Cold-Molded Boats How to Row a Single Scull Spring Commissioning in Just Two Weekends Restoring a Fantail Launch.

#64 May/June '85 Albert Strange and the Canoe Yawl The Arts of the Riverboat Builders Spring Painting and Varnishing Unusual Backyard Boats.

#65 July/Aug '85 Keeper of Classic Speedboats The Boatbuilder as Artist Making Traditional Mast Hoops The Wooden Boat Regattas.

#66 Sept/Oct '85 In Praise of the Junk Seasoning Your Lumber Skiffs and Sharpies Renewing the Deck.

#67 Nov/Dec '85 Make a Canoe Paddle A Classic Steam Yacht Part I Hatches and Deck Joinery A Plywood Sharpie.

#68 Jan/Feb '86 Celebration of Early 12-Meters State-of-the-Art Singlehander Renewing a Classic Outboard Launch Leatherwork for the Sailor.

#69 Mar/April '86 Trimaran Jim Brown Make Your Own Wooden Plane Trailers and Cradles Powerboat Systems.

#70 May/June '86 California Schoonerman Build a Plywood Kayak The British Wooden Boat Revival Buying Used Tools.

#71 July/Aug '86 Make Your Own Oars Speedboats from the Golden Era Repairing Lapstrake Planks Sailing a Gaff Cutter.

#72 Sept/Oct '86 Gulf Coast Outboards Starling Burgess Wooden Boat Insurance Recovering a Teak Deck.

#73 Nov/Dec '86 Offshore Powerboats Casting Bronze Hardware Rod Stephens & the N.Y. 32s How to Build a Plywood Runabout.

#74 Jan/Feb '87 Rowing the River Thames Jack Holt's Sailing Dinghies North Sea Trawler-Yacht The Gunter Rig.

#75 Mar/April '87 Building a Pocket Cruiser Maintenance Schedules The Designs of Winthrop Warner Looking at Boat Plans.

#76 May/June '87 High-Speed Sportfishing Yachts Build a Locker for the Main Cabin The Safe and Able Boats of Lyle Hess Hot-Weather Varnishing.

#77 July/Aug '87 A Modern Northwest Classic Deck Care Production-Built Small Boats Buying a Runabout.

#78 Sept/Oct '87 Canoe Restoration Centerboards and Trunks Exotic Rigs Danish Spidsgatters.

#79 Nov/Dec '87 The New England Dragger Tool Storage and Transport Boatyard Hazards A Woven Coracle.

#80 Jan/Feb '88 Grass Roots Outboard Racing Celebrating Concordia Yawls Replacing Planks Sano Magic.

#82 May/June '88 Summer Festivals Lyman Boatworks Galvanizing Hardware The Reelfoot Stumpjumper.

#83 July/Aug '88 Proven Proas The Designs of Nick Potter Wreck at Cape Ann The Self Survey.

#84 Sept/Oct '88 Stopping Leaks Howard Chapelle Herreshoffs Revealed Epoxy-Wood Connection.

#85 Nov/Dec '88 Douarnenez Festival Tack-and-Tape Construction Charles Francis Adams A Cutter's Story.

#86 Jan/Feb '89 The English Coble Scarfing Plywood The Legendary Prowler Collecting Marine Art.

#87 Mar/April '89 Warp Speed Fishing Schooners Leakproof Hatches Good Skiffs.

#88 May/June '89 Steam Boxes Windmill Boat Plank-on-Frame Dugouts Chesapeake Daysailers.

#89 July/Aug '89 Snipes Repair Strategies Sprit Rig Basics Art of Wm. Gilkerson.

#90 Sept/Oct '89 Double-Paddle Canoes The Steam Yacht ENA Build a Dory Model Simple Boat Details.

#91 Nov/Dec '89 Mast Building Charter Classics Wianno Seniors Unleaded Gas Controversy.

#93 Mar/April '90 Special Hands-On Issue Fitting Out Painting Quick Repairs.

#94 May/June '90 Fast Commuters Louvered Doors Blanchard Boats Pocket Cruisers.

#95 July/Aug '90 Class without Flash Gannon & Benjamin Building by Eye Squaresail Sailing.

#96 Sept/Oct '90 Building the Biscayne Bay 14 PRIDE OF BALTIMORE Replanking a Runabout North Woods Canoe.

#98 Jan/Feb '91 Olin J. Stephens II Steamboats at Windermere Building Crooked Drawers A New MOBJACK.

#100 May/June '91 Maintenance Costs: Glass vs Wood The Hickman Sea Sled How to Scull Build WEE LASSIE.

#102 Sept/Oct '91 Affordable Boat Design Build a Molded Coach Roof The Elco Cruisette.

#103 Nov/Dec '91 The Perfect Skiff Mahogany Classics in Italy Patternmaking with Acrylic Plastic.

#104 Jan/Feb '92 Kayak Camp Designing a Dream Build Sweet Pea Van Dam Craftsmanship Capt. Adrian Raynaud.

#105 Mar/April '92 Cabin Tables Epoxy & Wood Making a New Rudder Rope Fenders Sweet Pea Part II.

#106 May/June '92 The Constellation Controversy Buying the Right Plywood Coverting to Stitch & Glue Lowell's Boat Shop.

#107 July/Aug '92 Build a Ship's Wheel Rybovich Civilized Daysailers A Shipyard in a Box.

#108 Sept/Oct '92 Building a Double Paddle Designer Al Mason An Innovative Garboard Repair The Batavia Replica.

#109 Nov/Dec '92 The Sea Bright Skiff Knowing the Ropes The Stone Boat Yard.

#110 Jan/Feb '93 Wave-Piercing Catamarans Lofting Demystified Part I Curved Spars & Halyard Hooks.

#111 Mar/April '93 Build a Perfect Skiff Part I Varnishing Mast Repair Shipworms & Gribbles Bottom Paints Copper Sheathing Lofting Demystified Part II.

#112 May/June '93 Skiff Craft The Strip-Diagonal Combination The McManuses of Boston An Invisible Motor Finishing the Perfect Skiff.

#113 July/Aug '93 Building the Cape Charles Kayak Part I Restoration of VIOLET Edson Schock Riva!

#114 Sept/Oct '93 An Elegant Sea Kayak Part II Carlo Riva Refastening with Rivets Sharpies Square Meters.

#115 Nov/Dec '93 Double-Paddle Cruising Homemade Hardware Yacht Yards of the North Shore The Bonding Debate.

#116 Jan/Feb '94 Shellback Dinghy Part I Extraordinary Launches from Minett An Ideal Tender Transom Repairs Kettenburg of California.

#117 Mar/April '94 Deck Seams Shellback II Oars A Grady-White Makeover Accurate Joinerwork Moorings.

#118 May/June '94 Sandbaggers Shellback III A Stealth Dinghy Norway's Maritime Traditions Tugs on San Francisco Bay.

#119 July/Aug '94 Canoe called Yakaboo Putting a Shaper to Work Building Dolly Sheathing Fabrics for Wooden Boats Inner-City Boatbuilding.

#120 Sept/Oct '94- A Railbird Skiff Finishing Off a Sportfisherman Tenacity A Woman's Work of Art WoodenBoat Heroes: Where are They Now?

#121 Nov/Dec '94 Grand Lake Canoes TILIKUM: A World-Roaming Log Canoe A Fast and Simple Garvey Designing TAMARA Future of Maritime History.

#122 Jan/Feb '95 Schooner BRILLIANT Boats of the Yangtze River Catamaran Designer James Wharram A Retractable Skeg.

#123 Mar/April '95 PRINCIPIA Recycled The Canoe Yawl RED HEAD Clamps in the Boatshop A Folding Dinghy.

#124 May/June '95 Boatbuilding Methods Dragon Boats Replacing a Keel and Centerboard Trunk Building CHANTY.

#125 July/Aug '95 Understanding Hull Stress Part I A Modern French Fishing Lugger Paul E. Luke and ROSA II The 6-Hour Canoe.

#126 Sept/Oct '95 Building the Dory Skiff Part I Hurricane Island Boats The Purdys of Port Washington Whitehalls Double-ended Daysailer LALA Repowering CHEWINK.

#127 Nov/Dec '95 Chesapeake Bay Log Canoes North Carolina Sportfishing Boats Re-decking a Philip Rhodes Yawl Making Oars and Leathers Beach Cruisers Dory Skiff Part II.

#128 Jan/Feb '96 BLOODHOUND Drilling Long Holes Grey Seal Part I Potomac River Dory-Boats Ideal Trainer.

#129 Mar/April '96 ZULU Bending Wood with Dry Heat PT Boat Design and Development Trollers of the Pacific Northwest The Schooner BOWDOIN Building Grey Seal Part II.

#130 May/June '96 Adirondack Guideboats Casting Bronze Alton Wallace The Knarr Class Grey Seal Part III.

#131 July/Aug '96 Build the Osprey Triple-Cockpit Kayak Part I Sailing Rigs for Kayaks Claud Worth Tale of Two Sonders Simple Patterns + Huris + Sunbuqs + and Boatbuilders of Yemen Tops'l to Trys'l.

#132 Sept/Oct '96 The Trumpy Story Widgeon Manhasset Bay One Designs Harvesting Hackmatack Knees - Harry Bryan McGruer's - A Triple-Cockpit Kayak Part II.

#133 Nov/Dec '96 Aage Nielsen's Double-Enders Building Decks and Cabins Building a Plywood Peapod Part I Mathis-Trumpy Part II.

#134 Jan/Feb '97 Wooden Rowing Shells Japanese Tub Boats Marinize a Subaru Engine Plywood Peapod Part II.

#135 Mar/April '97 Bahamian Boatbuilding Birchbark Canoes Refastening a Hull Tips for Varnishing

#136 May/June '97 A Draketail Launch Installing Gasoline Engines Building the Mill Creek Kayak Part I Scarfing Building SPITFIRE.

#137 July/Aug '97 Powerboat Designs Setting up a Building Jig Sharpies of North Carolina Building the Mill Creek Kayak Part II.

#138 Sept/Oct '97 N.G.Herreshoff s Hollow-Bowed Boats Master Mariners Regatta Taking Lines from Models Build a 14' Lapstrake Sailboat.

#139 Nov/Dec '97 CONSTITUTION Sails! A New Rowing Gig for the Northwest Boats of Bangladesh Build a Daysailer.

#140 Jan/Feb '98 Classic Powerboats Gather in Florida How to Carve a Nameboard Updated Rigging for a Traditional Daysailer EDA FRANDSEN: The Lives of a Danish Fishing Boat.

#141 Mar/April '98 GRAYLING: Back from the Brink Build a Cedar-and-Canvas Canoe Part I Essential Edge Tools Sailing Vintage 12-Meters Galway Hookers.

#142 May/June '98 LEZARD: 100-Year Old Racing Sloop Longleaf Yellow Pine SALLY: Albert Strange Canoe Yawl Cedar-and-Canvas Canoe Part II.

#143 July/Aug '98 Essex-Built Schooner Waldo Howland's Life in Boats Build a Baidarka Cedar-and-Canvas Canoe Part III The Creation of BELLE MARIE.

#144 Sept/Oct '98 Sheathing Strip-Planked Hulls York Boats Bird Boats Simmons Sea Skiff Heisler and Son.

#145 Nov/Dec '98 60 Families Build 60 Boats A One-Station Skiff Winter Covers Reefing Out Seams: A New Approach The World's Fastest Boat.

#146 Jan/Feb '99 Building a Whaleboat The Nordic Folkboat A Nesting Dinghy that Works Shop-Made Lapstrake Planking Clamps A Gallery of New Boat Designs.

#147 Mar/April '99 Saving the USS CONSTELLATION A Shop-Made Hand Plane Teak Decks on Plywood Sub-Decks Designer Hugh Angelman Hobokibune - the unusual sailing trawler from Japan Designs of Joel White -Sea Island One-Design.

#148 May/June '99 A Viking Ship Replica Plywood Boat Design on the Computer Ben Seaborn Naval Architect Ralph Stanley Builds a 28' Schooner.

#149 July/August ' The Resurrection of an Aging Pilot Schooner Stripping a Tired Finish History of the Thunderbird Class Pinky Schooners A New Twist on Round Hollow Spars.

#150 Sept/Oct '99 25th Anniversary Issue: Jon Wilson on Founding WoodenBoat 25 Boats from Past Issues Build a Skiff with Hand Tools The W-Class Sloops Race at Antigua Ring-Andersen Shipyard.

#151 Nov/Dec '99 Building a Skiff with hand Tools (part 2) Designer Fenwick Williams Oyster Boats at Work Cutting Station Molds: A New Way Oregon's Drift Boats.

#152 Jan/Feb '00 Venetian Gondolas A Leak-proof Centerboard Trunk Building a Skiff with hand Tools (part 3) HM Bark ENDEAVOUR An Electric Launch.

#153 Mar/April '00 The Crosbys of Osterville Build a Lightning Importing Lumber from Suriname Shop-made Counterbores EASTWIND: Pragmatic World Voyaging.

#154 May/June '00 Wooden Tour Boats of Southeast Alaska Pushing the Limits: Powerboat Speed Pilot Holes for Screws Lightning-class- Build- Part 2 Boatbuilding: French & Webb Windfall: Harvesting Timber.

#155 July/Aug '00 A Wooden Boat Festival in Norway Maintaining an Island Mail Boat San Francisco's Rowing Clubs Restoration of a San Diego Pilot Boat.

#156 Sept/Oct '00 Build a 12' Sailing Dinghy SPIRIT the Legendary Sloop Pacific Voyaging Canoes Hodgdon Yachts Topsail Schooner Sea Training.

#157 Nov/Dec '00 The Research Behind Restoration Runabouts: A builder of contemporary classics Troubleshooting Planes: Part 1 Shoal Draft and Self-Righting The Genesis of DEVA Building Ellen Part 2 How to Make a Rabbeting Chisel.

Wood Boat Magazines out of print
#1 Sept/Oct '74 Traditional Boatbuilder's Tools Building a Sharpie Red & White Oaks A Modified Friendship.

#2 Nov/Dec '74 The Lincolnville Wherry A Smoky Mountains Dory Electrical Installations The Decay of Wood in Boats The Maine Sloop.

#3 Jan/Feb '75 Racing Skipjacks on the Chesapeake Inspecting the Bilge The Cape Cod Catboat ALMA a San Francisco Scow Schooner.

#4 Mar/April '75 The Bath Marine Museum Apprenticeshop Scottish Fishing Boat Conversions Cold-Molded Construction Pete Culler on Boatbuilding.

#5 May/June '75 The Mystic Seaport Small Craft Building a Whitehall from Lofting through Finishing Au Sable River Boats Building a Tancook Whaler Part I.

#6 July/Aug '75 Chesapeake Bay Log Canoe John Gardner on Marine Museums The Great Pacific Boatworks.

#7 Sept/Oct '75 Estimating Construction Costs Cold-Molded Construction The Building of a Tancook Whaler Instant Boats ACTIVE to England. --Note: There was no Nov/Dec '75 Issue of WoodenBoat--

#8 Jan/Feb '76 The Original Knockabouts Documentation Primer Ashcroft Construction Small Craft Restoration St. Lawrence Yawls.

#9 Mar/April '76 Rediscovering Hackmatack Mason Boat Works Barbados Boatbuilding Domestic Woods Part I: .

#10 May/June '76 Imported Woods Part II: A Pro on Painting Folkboats Revisited Runabouts Seasoning Science.

#11 July/Aug '76 Understanding Appreciating Preventing Rot Some Thoughts on Lofting The Nearly Forgotten Art of Making Planes Teak Decks.

#12 Sept/Oct '76 An Intro to Refastening The Essence of Lofting A Winter Storage Primer Clamps & Cleverness The Bass Boat.

#13 Nov/Dec '76 Winter Layup Making Molds Leaks Are Lousy Keeping the Structure Together West Coast Traditions.

#14 Jan/Feb '77 The Rabbet Saw Cuts No Wrinkles: Canvasing the Deck The Incredible Herreshoff Dugout Setting Up.

#15 Mar/April '77 Watertight: A Simple Teak Deck The Fine Art of Stripping Paint Ribbands Timbering Out The Venetian Gondola Pouring the Lead Keel.

#25 Nov/Dec '78 Living Aboard Cornish Gigs WHITEHAWK Under Sail Leaking Decks.

#26 Herreshoff's How to Build a Classic Dinghy Surveying Cold-Molding in the West.

#27 Mar/April '79 New England's Oldest Dory Shop Professional Quality Maintenance Sailing Peapods Pete Culler's Workshop.

#28 May/June '79 William Hand's Motorsailers Norwegian Boatbuilding Lumber Forecast Bedding Compounds.

#29 July/Aug '79 Design Competition Results Classic Runabouts Today Rebuilding the Wood & Canvas Canoe Friendship Sloops Under Sail.

#30 Sept/Oct '79 Winter Layup The San Francisco Pelican Bow Chocks The Reliable One-Lunger.

#31 Nov/Dec '79 Working Sail Returns Heating Your Boat with Wood Falmouth Oyster Boats Finish Off a Flat-Bottomed Skiff.

#32 Jan/Feb '80 Simple Tools for Simple Boats Restoring a St. Lawrence Skiff John Alden's Yachts Understanding Marine Electrical Systems.

#33 Mar/April '80 Making Half Models Nathanael Herreshoff The JOHN F. LEAVITT.

#34 May/June '80 An Exquisite Yacht Tender Festival Season Cold-Molded Metamorphosis.

#35 July/Aug '80 Herreshoff's New York Thirties St. Pierre Dory Restoring a Working Skipjack.

#40 May/June '81 An Interview with John Gardner Spring Outfitting with a Pro Singlehanding an Old Gaffer The Last Wooden Shipbuilding Boom.

#41 July/Aug '81 Yachting's Cutter Craze Build a Classic Plywood Dory Restoring a Runabout Narrowboats of Great Britain.

#81 Mar/April '88 Sailing a Bahamian Smack The Art of Brightwork Building a Cabin Sole 50 Years with DIABLESSE.

#92 Jan/Feb '90 Multihull Safety Build a Skylight Lapstrake Repairs Rig and Hull Performance.

#97 Nov/Dec '90 Building a Canoe Yawl Kayak Designs Laminated Frames.

#99 Mar/April '91 Raised-Panel Joinerwork A Trouble-Free DC System Build a Proper Icebox.

#101 July/Aug '91 Winning Shells in Wood Installing a New Diesel Great Lakes Small Craft The Buckboard Trailer.

Last Updated on 1/10/01
By John C Freeman