George Buehler Yacht Design was probably the starting point for my boat-building research. The Backyard Boatbuilding mailing list has a large following of extremely knowledgeable and helpful builders. It was started around a book by George Buehler named Backyard Boatbuilding. Mr. Buehler is a proponent of what I term "rough and ready" boatbuilding. read more »

Just an "intro" note to let you know that I intend to be revisiting some of our old friend/designers that I covered a year and more ago. Now that Craft A Craft is coming up on it's second birthday, I think some of our newer readers will appreciate a pointer to some of these resources, and for our old timers, don't tune out... there have been several updates and new plans available by many of the designers. read more »