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Angie is a multidisciplinary storyteller, researcher and academic, exploring how creative practitioners can drive science and envision regenerative futures. Angie is self-building a Wharram Narai Mk IV wooden catamaran with her family, creating a Floating Stories Lab - a regenerative sailboat studio - to depart Europe on a circumnavigation, merging science, art, research, and storytelling to discover how humans can thrive on a flourishing planet. For the latest updates, visit www.voyagevirage.com or subscribe to the Floating Stories Lab Substack newsletter.
Multihulls

Building a Boat, Building Knowledge: A Wharram Narai Mk IV in...

Boat Maintenance

Regenerative Tides: Citizen Science Tackles the Fiberglass Boat Crisis

Boat Maintenance

YouTube Sailing: Eight Videos Packed with Practical Knowledge

Greenboats laying flax fabric to construct the MB9 monohull, which is entirely constructed from Natural Fibre Composites (NFCs). Photo courtesy of Greenboats.
DIY Projects

Considering Fiber-Reinforced Composites for Sheathing

"The epoxy primer was applied quickly by Jacob and Hanneke, one rolls it on the other strokes it out. We applied two coats and afterwards wet-and-dry sanded them." (Info/Photo Wharram Designs)
Boat Maintenance

Glues and Resins: Can Boatbuilding Be Regenerative?

This Feinspiel Vendia boat is made from their proprietary Nordic pine plywood planks. The planks are made from sliced veneer so it looks like solid wood, but is actually ply. (Photo courtesy of Vendia)
Boat Maintenance

Wooden Boat Revival: Can Boatbuilding Be Regenerative?

Examples of glass filler (microspheres) and glass material (cut fibers and two fabrics) for plastics reinforcement: glass microspheres (or glass beads); diameter: about 300 µm, specific gravity: 2.5. Mineral filler mainly used to increase the stiffness of a thermoset resin and to make road safety markings; 5 mm length chopped strands of fiberglass used to reinforce thermoset resins; fibrous reinforcements for thermoset resins: two glass fabrics with different area density; fiber orientation: 0 and 90° (most common): weave pattern: taffeta (down left, area density: 550 g/m2), and 2x2 twill (down right, area density: 280 g/m2). Credit: WikiCommons/CC BY-SA 3.0
DIY Projects

A Brief Modern History of Fiberglass

DIY Projects

Why Choose the Wharram Design?

Old, decomposing fiberglass boats in Hennebont, next to Lorient, in the Morbihan region of Bretagne, France. (Photo/ Angie Richard)
Boat Maintenance

What Do You Do With Old Fiberglass Boats?

Latest Videos

The $89k 55 Foot Bluewater Yacht That Got Cheap Enough to Be Dangerous video from Practical Sailor
Video

The $89k 55 Foot Bluewater Yacht That Got Cheap Enough to...

The Tayana 55 is one of the most tempting used bluewater cruising sailboats on the market: a 55-foot center cockpit offshore yacht with serious...
Which Bottom Paint Do I Choose?? video from Practical Sailor

Which Bottom Paint Do I Choose??

Hans Christian 33: The Tiny Bluewater Legend Nobody Sells video from Practical Sailor

Hans Christian 33: The Tiny Bluewater Legend Nobody Sells

The Boat Upgrades That Actually Matter video from Practical Sailor

The Boat Upgrades That Actually Matter

Latest Sailboat Reviews

Sailboat Reviews

Luders 33 Used Boat Review

The Luders 33 was designed by Bill Luders and built by Allied Yachts of Catskill, NY, from 1966 to 1974. The builder of the Luders 33, Allied Yachts, had a troubled existence, struggling for survival from the early 1970s until the firm finally succumbed for good in 1981. Throughout its nine year production run, a bit more than 100 Luders 33s were built. Still, like such similar boats as the Alberg 30, the relative scarcity and traditional styling have made it a bit of a cult object.

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Pearson Rhodes 41/Rhodes Bounty II Used Sailboat Review