Summering In Alaska At 6 Knots
October 15, 2024
Soundings Deputy Editor Pim Van Hemmen joined boatbuilder Sam Devlin on a summer cruise in Alaska aboard Puffin, Devlin’s 1966 wooden trawler.
Soundings Deputy Editor Pim Van Hemmen joined boatbuilder Sam Devlin on a summer cruise in Alaska aboard Puffin, Devlin’s 1966 wooden trawler.
Sam Devlin has run Devlin Designing Boat Builders since 1978. An active proponent of wood/epoxy boats throughout his career, Sam is the author of the 1997 best seller Devlin’s Boat Building on the stitch-and-glue method.
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The Dynamo Too concept is a stich-and-glue version of William Garden’s plank-on-frame Dynamo.
There are few folks like Sam Devlin—artist, perfectionist, and dreamer caught in the profession of boatbuilding.
Is the Albacore 40 a truly classic design? The way my eyes see her makes it hard for me to tell.
A father, a son, and a dream of zero-impact passage making culminates in a record-setting 1,400 mile voyage.
The idea for this Oso Blanco 54 springs from a bucket-list cruising itinerary.
The double-ended Tyee 33 underscores why two sterns can, sometimes, be better than one.
Why we chose to build our dream version of a Selene 60 from the keel up.
Exploring the Utrechtse Vecht on the redesigned Elling E4.
Two decades after their first circumnavigation, Don and Anja Richards are crossing oceans again to help their son, Keith, kickstart his own cruising dream.
We caught up to the liveaboards at their winter roost in Southwest Alaska to chat about following your dreams and living a life less ordinary.
The gig is more workaday than champagne and caviar, and sometimes the harbor patrol saves our bacon.
How I learned to love the solitude and adventure of cruising with my canine companions.
A veteran sailor brings celestial navigation skills to a motoryacht’s transatlantic passage.
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