“A Weekend with Boat People”
“A Weekend with Boat People”
Article in the Small Boats Monthly: July 2025 : The editor visits the 33rd WoodenBoat Show
Jenny Bennett stopped by for a delightful chat, and wrote such a wonderful article about our visit!
A Weekend with Boat People
The editor visits the 33rd WoodenBoat Show
Article Written by Jenny Bennett
From Issue July 2025
“One of the unceasing pleasures of working at Small Boats is meeting people who design, build, use, or simply love small boats. Through any given year I meet them individually in myriad places: at launching ramps, on the water, in boatyards, at gas stops on the highway, even in grocery stores far from lake, stream, or ocean. And then, from time to time, I meet many of them on masse, in one place. This past weekend was one of those latter occasions. For three days I crisscrossed Mystic Seaport Museum’s grounds and docks enjoying the company of boating enthusiasts—both amateur and professional—and soaking up the atmosphere of the 2025 WoodenBoat Show.
Rose Woodyard and Alan Mann of Newfound Woodworks brought a selection of their strip-planked canoes to the show and, for the sixth year in a row, won Best in Show in the Professionally Built Manually Powered Boat category….”
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