Weighing Your Boat

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June 6, 2012

Harry Bryan

 Every summer for more than 25 years I have spent a week or more teaching at the WoodenBoat School in Brooklin.  I like nothing better than to end each day by reading an old copy of The Rudder, Motor Boating or one of the other boating magazines available in the library or dorms.  The advertising, editorials, and articles transport me back to a time when almost all boats were made of wood, and chrome-plated “Zamak” had not yet been invented.  I am always on the lookout for useful information now lost by what E. F. Shumacher calls “the people of the forward stampede.” …

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