SURPRISE
Steve Miller launched this Swifty 12 designed by Fred Shell (www.shellboats.com) on May 27, 2001. She is 12' long with 5'3" beam. Steve named her SURPRISE and provided her with a sprit rig. He sails her on the lakes around Portland, OR.
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Steve Miller launched this Swifty 12 designed by Fred Shell (www.shellboats.com) on May 27, 2001. She is 12' long with 5'3" beam. Steve named her SURPRISE and provided her with a sprit rig. He sails her on the lakes around Portland, OR.
COLLEEN WAGNER is the name of this lovely 28' sharpie built by the Marine Carpentry Class at the Wood Construction Center of Seattle Central Community College.
The boat is powered with a 40 HP Mariner motor. All wood was purchased from a home improvement store and covered with epoxy and fiberglass. The design is from Jeff Spira and the model name is the Kachemak.
Launching of my cedar strip planked row boat. It is a 15′ Rangeley lake boat. The plans are from Newfound Woodworks. Made out of eastern cedar, western cedar, black ash and spanish cedar. The oars are made of ash.
Launching Scrappy, Rooster # 744, at the first annual Rooster Week, in 2014.
Constant Camber construction. Main hull has inner/outer layers of 1/14″ fir, sandwiching two layers of cedar. Amas are three layers of fir. Started building 30 years ago!!
Here floats RED RYDER in a swimming pool with her builder, Rip Graham of St. Simons Island, Georgia, aboard. His wife Charlotte took the pictures and shared Rip’s project with us. Rip built modified version of Tom Yost’s Nikumi design for a 17′ x 22″ Aluetian Baidarka touring kayak.
The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding in Port Hadlock launched on June 14, three classic Whitehalls built for the British Broadcasting Corporation. The BBC used the boats in August 2013 to recreate John Wesley Powell’s 1869 exploration of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon.
I built this 18′ Palmer fantail launch to plans I obtained from Mystic Seaport Museum. The original boat was built around 1910 and had a Palmer gas inboard engine. I adapted the plans for modern strip plank construction and used western red cedar for planking, fiberglassed inside and out.
Marine plywood and mahogany, using epoxy resins. Design inspired by Seaway Boat Company of Long Beach, CA.
“CHARM” is an 85′ LOA schooner originally designed to be a personal yacht that was built and fini
Built in 1933 as a commercial NC “sink netter”, “Sylvia II” has been totally restored and rebuilt
William Shaw design, 24' Yawl with shoal keel and centerboard, built 1958 in Denmark.