On the Newstand and Digital Library Now - July/August 2025 Issue No. 305 Preview
PÍCARA
Builder Name:
Julio Arana
Pícara, my Hazardous Zero-9 Merlin Rocket build, was successfully launched and sailed on Friday morning, April 15, 2016. She touched water for the first time on Lake Travis, near Austin, Texas, USA. Pícara gracefully sailed in light winds and quickly responded to mild gusts.
Rocking Boat
Builder Name:
Steve and Jamie Reed
Steve and Jamie Reed of Greeley, Colorado, built this cute little rocking boat with no metal fasteners, just glue and dowels. They used teak, purple heart, poplar, pine, ash, and oak. Some tiny Reed captain should be overjoyed with their first command.
FRIDA
Builder Name:
Mike Yates
Mike Yates of Bainbridge Island, Washington designed & built this recreational/open-water shell. Loosely based on Graeme King’s immortal Kingfisher, it is strip-built with 1/8″ Western Red Cedar & Alaskan Yellow Cedar, covered with 2-oz fiberglass.
ULABRAND
Year Built:
2007
ULABRAND was designed by Dag Oppen Berntsen and Dag Fjeldstad. She was built of larch planking on oaken frames, in Klaipeda, Lithuania, and rigged/finished in Stavern, Norway in 2007 by Fredriksvern Trebåtbyggeri AS.
KAJO
Year Built:
1944
KAJO is a Pirate Class Dinghy that came from Germany to Denmark in the spring of 2016, to be renovated and cared for by the Fjordkultur Boat Hustlers Inc. Her hull is Oregon pine on white oak frames. She is known as “The Fastest Looking Boat on Limfjord.”
