It’s understandable that boat lovers are drawn to the fair lines, meticulous joinery and storied past of traditional wooden boats. In fact, it’s this collective mystique that led to the launching of Blue Crescent Wooden Boats as a business. 
   Trouble is, traditional wooden boats are sea-going creations, designed and built to live in the water year-round. This watery lifestyle swells a traditional boat’s complex arrangement of joinery and wooden planks, sealing them tight and preventing leaks. It’s an ingenious system that has worked for hundreds of years. 
   However, put that same boat on a trailer for weeks at a time, like most of us inland boaters do, and its traditional joints and tight planking open as the boat dries out. Sure, it all swells tight again after a few days back in the water, but who wants to wait for a boat to swell when all you want to do is hit the waves. 
   Bottom line: Traditional wooden boats aren’t designed to suffer the shrink-swell cycle we passionate – but part-time – sailors put them through. 
   Blue Crescent Wooden Boats transcends the challenges of traditionally constructed boats, by blending careful craftsmanship and contemporary boatbuilding methods that produce boats with traditional beauty and modern practicality. We build what the industry has come to call a “dry boat,” replacing traditional fastenings and building techniques with epoxy and composite construction technology. 
   These proven methods have evolved over the past 30 years and produce strong, light one-piece (or monocoque) hulls that don’t shrink and swell, require less maintenance, and still retain their traditional appearance. In fact, our mission is grounded in providing boaters the benefits of contemporary wooden boats, while maintaining the aesthetic that attracts you to wooden boats in the first place: The fair lines of a lapstrake hull; the smooth shape of a cold-molded sailboat; or the glimmering bright work of a cedar and mahogany strip-planked kayak. 
   Contact us today, and let’s talk about building a purposely-built boat that feeds your passion -- a boat you’ll love to look at and, most of all, love to use.  Comment on this article.