In the past we've had several postings covering the building and use of Barquito. Now David needs to find her a good home.

Check out his site and contact him if you are interested:

Handmade, small craft for day use. One-of-a-kind folding sailboat. This is not a joke. It is a folding boat. read more »

Gavin Atkin at InTheBoatShed.net has had pictures of this nifty folding boat before, but he has recently put this post up with a bunch more, detailed pictures.

People really created works of art with these boats!

Gavin Atkin of InTheBoatShed.net had a recent post pointing us to the "Handy Andy", an older set of plans for a folding dinghy. Svenson's site has the plans available.

Looks like an interesting site to nose around otherwise, also!

Our friend Benjy over at WoodenWidget has scored another good writeup about his Origami Dinghy. George Delozier, a regular blogger on InventorSpot.com has provided details on the Dinghy along with several pictures. InventorSpot.com is a neat site covering "the latest inventions, innovations and interesting ideas?"

Gavin Atkin over at InTheBoatShed.net has an interesting post on the Hudson folding boat. A folding dinghy from the 1930's, it kind of shows that the various folding and Origami Dinghy designs aren't as newfangled as we might think.

Just wanted to point this out... Dee Bee commented that Duckworks Magazine has a nice writeup on Barquito. Congrats on such a nice little boat!

Here's another design based around corrugated plastic. Site is a little thin on details, although there have been links from Make and Gizmodo (that second one has a picture of a actual craft). read more »

This is a commercial vendor of a folding boat... looks to use a rubber type hinge. Might be of interest if you don't want to build your own.

Instaboat is the perfect portable folding boat for outdoors enthusiasts. This foldable boat is lightweight, durable, and can be assembled in 2 minutes. This boat adapts to all recreational vehicles and is easy to carry. Very stable and safe to use, it is unsinkable, even when filled with water.

I hadn't really expected NPR (National Public Radio) to be a source for my boating interests, but they surprised me yesterday.

They have an ongoing series of "SoundClips" segments (many are quite interesting) where listeners send in interesting sounds that they have encountered and recorded. The segment yesterday dealt with a "Origami Boat" that a man produced in Austin, TX. read more »