Wooden rowboats like the Whitehalls of San Francisco Bay are still constructed with the traditional “lapstrake” design that allowed the chandlers of old to traffic goods to and from 17th-century sailing ships. Today, the pretty woodens that you can see pulling around the Bay are distant cousins of those first workhorses,preserving in their beautiful utility the spirit of a past age. Read the article and see the short film about these wonderful watercraft HERE.