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Amateur Boatbuilding | As the name says, devoted to boats suitable for amateur construction. Includes forum and gallery.
Angus Rowboats | Build your own expedition rowboat and row across ponds large and small.
Canoe Sailing Magazine | Online magazine that encompasses the entire sport of canoe sailing, from historical and classic craft up to today’s high-tech recreational and competition canoes. Edited by Ed Maurer.
Canoe Yawl | Home of the CYA (Canoe Yawl Association), for pointy-sterned sailboats and those who love them.
Chesapeake Light Craft | Wood/epoxy kayak kits and plans. 30+ boat kits, including canoes, rowing and sailing craft, and proas.
Chine Blog | Tim Shaw's collection of thoughts and opinions about traditional small boats and the culture that surrounds them.
DIY-Tris | Home brewed trimarans by Frank Smoot. Small, quick, nimble, inexpensive and did I mention amazing DIY trimarans.
Duckworks Magazine | Duckworks magazine is an ezine that is written by its readers. "We try to cover all aspects of home boat building and the use of those and other small boats. The world boat building community is not huge and all its members are welcome here."
Lunada Design | Chris Ostlind designs and builds elegant plywood smallcraft - most notably extremely cool trimarans.
McGowan Marine Design | Boat designer Laurie McGowan's site focuses on environmentally friendly human and sail powered small boats.
Openboat | Wonderful New Zealand site sharing the fun of open boat cruising in general and a John Welsford designed Navigator in particular. Excellent photos.
PT Watercraft | PT Watercraft specializes in modern stitch & glue boat kits, such as the PT Eleven, a unique 11ft nesting dinghy designed with the serious cruiser’s needs in mind. It rows and sails exceptionally well and is the first in a series.
Slider Cat | Innovative camp cruising catamarans by Ray Aldridge.
Traditional Small Craft Association | Mission: to preserve and continue the living traditions, skills, lore, and legends surrounding working and pleasure watercraft whose origins predate the marine gasoline engine. It encourages the design, construction, and use of these boats, and it embraces contemporary variants and adaptations of traditional designs.
Triloboats | The Trilobyte 16: build your own crab-claw rigged, birdwatcher-like cabin, sailing micro barge.
Watertribe - Everglades Challenge | The purpose of WaterTribe is to encourage the development of boats, technique, and equipment for safe and efficient coastal cruising using minimal impact human and wind powered watercraft based on kayaks, canoes, and small sailboats. Home of the Everglades Challenge Adventure Race.