Getting Started In Boats, a publication from WoodenBoat!
All of us who read WoodenBoat are passionate about our craft, whether building, rowing, paddling, sailing, power-boating, or simply working on our boats.
Do you remember when you were first introduced to boats, and when your passion began to develop? Now you have a way to share this passion, and to bring this same level of joy to new people.
In every issue of WoodenBoat this year, we will include the new supplement, Getting Started. This publication is produced for your family, friends, and neighbors, members of local community groups, colleagues at work — the people you know who should be inspired into boats and boating. Getting Started is produced for the absolute beginner.
Past copies of Getting Started are available in past issues of WoodenBoat, and as full-color PDFs from the WoodenBoat Store Digital Download site.
A sample digital edition of Volume I of Getting Started in Boats.
More Home Boatshops—Thanks to all who sent us photos and descriptions of home boatshops. You can read about three of our picks in Volume 12 of Getting Started in WB No. 204. Here are more great home boatshops that we thought you’d like to see.
Stock List (PDF) — Here’s a stock list to help you organize your own boatbuilding project. If your project involves a lot of pieces, you may want to print out more than one copy.
The Getting Started Blog — The purpose of this service is to serve as the forum for comments and questions about the publication and its boats and projects. We will post photographs here, and have a forum for you to post photos and details of your boat! Additional design information for the Lumberyard Skiff is here as well.
Dictionary — We are building a dictionary of words or expressions that occur in Getting Started.