A well-maintained wooden boat makes me stop and turn my head every time. They are beautiful and it’s one of the few types of boat that makes me eschew reason and practicality and mutter, “I want one.”   It’s why I enjoy the Antique Boat Museum in Clayton, New York.

I had a great time playing with modern build wooden Hackers up in Lake George, New York, last fall. I had good reason to be there. I got a great assignment from Boating Magazine to compare and contrast a Hacker 27 against a Cobalt 276, a top level fiberglass production model.

Pimping out my work, the story, “Wood vs. Fiberglass” is now online.