FIRST LIGHT Launched!
The balmy weather of April 30 was just right to launch FIRST LIGHT built by Mike Latham. Mike together with Paula Smith and Mike’s sons Daniel and Jacob floated her free for the first time...
The balmy weather of April 30 was just right to launch FIRST LIGHT built by Mike Latham. Mike together with Paula Smith and Mike’s sons Daniel and Jacob floated her free for the first time...
March 3: The Boatbuilding Basics Workshop is underway! Two Six-Hour Canoes are under construction and will come together over five consecutive Saturdays. On Saturday, March 10 the two crews got the bottoms on. On...
CABBS is offering a Boatbuilding Basics Workshop. Participants will learn hands-on by building a “Six-Hour Canoe” designed by Mike O’Brien, the editor and publisher of Boat Design Quarterly. The single-person boat is 15 feet long...
The CABBS booth at Cleveland MetroParks Whiskey Island Paddlefest promoted our upcoming Six-Hour Canoe boatbuilding class. Planned for March, 2018, participants will build and paint their own Six-Hour Canoe over four consecutive Saturdays. Our...
Let’s start with this year’s kid’s model boat, a sailing catamaran designed by Jerry Priebe. The CABBS kid’s boatbuilding workshop is a legendary feature of the boat show. CABBS members led by program director Mike...
Attending the Richardson Boat Owners Rendezvous Hop aboard shipmates as we head to Lockport, New York where we board Heidi for a 140 mile trip on the Erie Canal. Our destination is the Richardson...
You didn’t need the fastest boat but it helped. During the 1920’s, Prohibition outlawed alcoholic beverages in the USA. But few stopped drinking. Many relied on smugglers who ran Canadian booze across the lake...
John Mikolich’s 16 ft. Swampscott dory will be seeing water soon, but exactly when he is reluctant to say. It’s been a slow but steady build process from scratch. John worked from the plans...
Presentation by: Rick Blamer, CABBS member Rick Blamer fired up his steam box and gave a live steam bending demonstration. To show how its done, he brought along a bending jig to make a...
To be competitive today a racing sailboat is not rigged with stainless steel cables. Rather it is rigged with composite cables woven from hi-tech fibers such as Kevlar®, carbon, or other proprietary molecules. Jon...