Each issue includes:
• Quality reproductions of the designers' original drawings
• Complete hull lines for most boats
• Full particulars, including calculated performance ratios 
• Designers' addresses and phone numbers
• Succinct design commentary

Magazines typically feature six designs over 20-24 pages, with no advertising. Ordering issues and subscriptions is effortless via The WoodenBoat Store's secure website. The WoodenBoat Store has been fulfilling back issue orders since BDQ was first published in 1991.

DIGITAL EDITIONS: We now have every issue of Boat Design Quarterly available in PDF format. We will certainly continue to produce the print version, but we're now convinced the digitals have their place as well. Aside from the benefit of instant delivery, no shipping or duty fees, you can easily enlarge the drawings for viewing the details. Plus, we now have "sets" of the digital issues, so you can order in groups of 10 issues, and save money as well. Please click BDQ Digital Downloads. If ordering on-line, you can pay with Visa, Mastercard, Discover, or PayPal.

PRINT EDITIONS: While our collection of available print issues is shrinking, we do have most of the issues in print. Click BDQ PRINT Issues for ordering.

SUBSCRIPTIONS: You can order a subscription via The WoodenBoat Store's secure site. Please note, subscriptions include 4 issues, although all four issues will probably take longer than 12 months to produce. Click Subscriptions.

Check out Mike's new book, Good Sailboat Designs, which is a compilation of some of his favorites from the pages of Boat Design Quarterly. The book is 8.5 x 11", 114 pages, softcover, $19.95. 

To order back issues and subscriptions, by phone or mail, please contact The WoodenBoat Store:
Phone: 1.800.273.SHIP (7447) or 207.359.4647  Fax: 207.359.2058
Mail: The WoodenBoat Store, PO Box 78, Brooklin, Maine 04616
Email: wbstore@woodenboat.com

What others are saying about Boat Design Quarterly:
“It’s the best explanation of hull lines that I’ve ever read. O’Brien’s
writing reflects a deep understanding of boats and the joy they give to
him.”
— Dennis Caprio, former editor of Small Boat Journal

“Interesting boats from innovative designers….”
— Bob Hicks, editor and publisher
of Messing About in BOATS

“Mike O’Brien makes boats, each and every one he writes about,
indelible for me. You can’t find drawings like these, and become
exposed to Mike’s encyclo-practic grasp of boats, anywhere better
than in his very own publication.”
— Jim Brown, multihull designer and author


Copyright 2017 Boat Design Quarterly

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BDQ publisher Mike O'Brien worked as Associate Editor for Sailor magazine and Technical Editor for Soundings during the 1980s. 

For twenty years, Mike was Senior Editor for WoodenBoat magazine. His boats and articles have appeared in many publications, including Cruising World, Small Boat Journal, and Soundings. In his spare time he writes and publishes Boat Design Quarterly. A registered Maine Guide, he teaches sailing and kayaking at the WoodenBoat School. 

Mike is the Boat Design Editor for WoodenBoat. This position allows him to devote additional time to that magazine’s Designs section. And, Mike is now a book publisher with his first title, which promises to be a series, Good Sailboat Designs: 32 Daysailers, Camp-Cruisers, & Weekenders. 

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