Boats rock. Well, that's not quite true--some boats don't rock. There are boats out there, like the Bayliner Buccaneer, that are so offensive to the eyes that they ought to be recycled into park benches, post haste. But for every ugly tupperware sail contraption and every stinkpot powerboat, there are dozens of beautiful wooden sailboats and historical wooden powerboats. Wait, maybe I got that ratio wrong--maybe it's one beauty for every dozen fuglies. Oh well, there are some amazing wooden boats out there.





I'm going to start collecting and posting pictures of those lovelies. I'll start today with links to Sam Devlin's Devlin Designing Boat Builders. Sam designs and builds absolutely gorgeous wooden boats with a Northwest flair to them; any of these boats would look right at home in the waterways of the pacific northwest--Puget Sound, the inside passage, Gray's and Willapa Harbor, etc. Just imagine Means of Grace (above) sailing at you out of the fog on a rainy day in the San Juans.