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Site Description of these Yahoo groups |
| Microcruising | A good place to talk about cruising in little boats. |
| Paradoxboatbuilders | This group is dedicated to the construction of Matt Layden's Paradox design. The moderator, Don Elliott, shares lots of his great illustrations and his indepth knowledge on the subject. |
| Paradox Builders | Another great group for those contemplating or building Paradox. |
| Smallboats | This group is devoted to the development of small open boats 18 feet (LWL) and under. |
| Aroundinten |
A new group dedicated to exploring the design of a 10 foot long around the world racer. |
| Boat Design | Not only for the technical minded. |
| A group dedicated to microcruising, especially in the Canadian built 17' Siren sailboat. | |
| Bolger forum | The place for fans of Bolger boats. |
| Smallsailboats | A great group moderated by Bill Serjeant, who has a website by the same name . |
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| Webb Chiles | A great site by Webb Chiles himself about his sailing adventures and his life. He even has generously provide full pdf files of most of his books and articles! |
| God's Tear | A site dedicated to Wayne Dickinson and his beautiful |
| Explorermicrocruiser | A new site about the building of a micro-cruiser called EXPLORER which is based on Matt Layden's more recent sharpies. |
| Shoal Waters | Charles Stock's new website about his adventures aboard his 16 1/2 foot gaff rigged sailboat, Shoal Waters. Believe it or not, he has sailed over 70,000 miles in this little micro-cruiser since he built it in 1963. A must read site! |
| Little Jim | Excellent website with lots of pictures on how to build Paradox. |
| Voyage of the Aegre | This is a wonderful account of Nick Grainger and his girl friend's amazing 12,000 mile voyage across the Atlantic and the Pacific in their 21 foot Shetland fishing boat, Aegre. Also don't forget to check out Nick's main site on the Caledonia Yawl, Crazybird. |
| Yrvind | Sven Lundin/Yrvind site about his Bris boats. It is in Swedish. |
| Openboat | Neat site about cruising in open boats. |
| Openboatcruising | Another nice site about open boat cruising. |
| Pere Peinard | 18' sailboat that voyaged from Canada to Australia |
| Shortypen's Pocket Cruiser | Shortypen's site with a comprehensive list of sailboats |
| Pocket Cruiser Guide | Large list of boats and equipment. |
| Jack's NIS 18 Site | Jack did a beautiful job building EGIA. Lots of construction photos. |
| Egoist | Free plans for this wonderful 5.5 meter coastal cruiser. |
| Small Sailboat | Bill Serjeants wonderful small boat website. Don't forget to check out his pages on PARADOX. |
| John's Nautical And Boatbuilding | Excellent site to find ALL nautical related links |
| Bolger Site | A guide to lots of links to Bolger's boats on the web |
| Juneau boatbuilder | Amateur boat building way up north |
| Jim Michalak | Lots of inexpensive boat designs |
| Flicka Home Page | Great update site on this incredible boat. |
| Small Boat Cruising | Nice source of links though some link are broken. |
| LewisBoatWorks | Neat little site about Lewis' projects |
| Bruceboats | Bruce Hector's boating site-home of the "infinite modular sharpie." |
| Micro Site | Site on Bolger's Micro |
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| Small Crafts Advisor | Great little magazine. We did an in depth interview for them in their May/June 2000 |
| Messing About in Boats | Another great magazine published twice a month. |
| Duckswork Magazine | Web based magazine with articles and building tips. |
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| John R. Sweet Co. | Excellent source for fiberglass, kevlar, graphite and other boatbuilding supplies. We bought much of our supplies from here. Exceptional customer support. |
| Raka | Another wonderful supplier of boatbuilding fabrics, fillers and custom epoxy. |
| Ebay | Check out Ebay for some deals on white LEDs, fiberglass fabric and more. |
| Oudoor Wilderness Fabrics | Source for all types of fabrics. Great prices on closeouts. |
| Seattle Fabrics | A good source for all types of fabrics. |
| Sailrite | The place to get materials to make your own sails. |
| Jamestown Distributors | One of the best places to get fasteners, epoxy, paint etc.. |
| Sailmaker's Supply | A good source for dacron sailcloth, sunbrella and many other sailmaking related items at reasonable prices. |
| Miscellaneous | Site Description |
| Fly Fishing | Nice fly fishing site by our friend Terry Corneau |
| Marine Portraits | Small Craft Advisor illustrator, Joseph Buchanan, has some fine samples of his works here. |
| Snorkelbox | How to make a really inexpensive waterproof housing for your video camera. This enclosure should be perfect for those who want to protect their camera from spray and even submersion while cruising aboard their boat. You can see more of Robb's interesting inventions here. |