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A QUARTERLY ON SMALL BOATS, OLD SKILLS AND COLD WATER

Issue 27 · Autumn 2026 · £9

Oakum & Tar

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VOYAGES

14 min read

Six weeks round Scotland in an open boat, and the one night we nearly didn’t.

Four hundred and twelve miles under oar and lugsail, sleeping under a boom tent, with a paper chart and a borrowed VHF. What the Sound of Mull taught us about tide tables.

By Isla Penhaligon · Photographs by Col Barrie

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BOATBUILDING

Steaming oak frames in a shed with no electricity

9 min read

SEAMANSHIP

Anchoring for the night when the forecast is lying

7 min read

FOOD ABOARD

A one-pan mackerel supper on a camping stove in a swell

4 min read

Readers on the best knot nobody taught them

Summer 2026

BOATBUILDING

The last caulker working on the Tamar

Spring 2026

VOYAGES

Crossing to the Scillies in a 16-foot crabber

Winter 2025

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