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...
Category: Journal Entry
Anchors Aweigh at the Boatbuilding Basics Workshop!
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...
Boatbuilding Basics Workshop: Build the Six-Hour Canoe
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...
CABBS at Paddlefest: Promoting Our Six-Hour Canoe Boatbuilding Class
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...
CABBS at the 2017 Cleveland Mid-America Boat Show
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...
Motoring on the Erie Canal
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...
Guest Speaker: Renee Durkee,
Author of Rum Run
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...
Step by Step a Swampscott Dory Takes Shape
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...
Bending Wood with Steam, Muscle and Steel
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...
Caring for Your Sails and Rigging
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...
