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An Echo Bay Dory Skiff built with a sprit sail rig built from a kit by Chase Small Craft. The boat was 8 years in the making (I have other hobbies too).
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An Echo Bay Dory Skiff built with a sprit sail rig built from a kit by Chase Small Craft. The boat was 8 years in the making (I have other hobbies too).
Tammie Norrie 15 foot dinghy
My first boat !
I started her late 2017 but in March 2018 I quit my job and worked on her every day.
Michel Roy and his sons built LOON together as a first boat building project. LOON is a Herb McLeod One-Sheet-Skiff (OSS) which we modified with inside chine logs. The hull is fir marine ply, and the bright bits were gotten out of various bits of vertical grain douglas fir.
Rudy Robichaud spent four years building MEADOW BIRD, a 16' modified Titmouse design. Rudy writes that Sam Rabl did the original design, and Karl Stambaugh modified it for Gary F. Clements, who has plans available at GFC Boats, 490 Hagan Rd., Cape May Court House, NJ 08210.
Tom Shives built this Glen-L Drifter, from Glen-L Marine plans, with a small group of men from his church.
This dory style sailboat was built in a small wood shop in my yard. It took ten months to build and would never have happened had it not been for the folks at Chesapeake Light Craft and their assistance.
George Dyson of Bellingham, Washington designed this skin-on-frame kayak. His design called for aluminum tubing for the frames. When Alex Zimmerman built this kayak, he modified the planking to a marine plywood and cedar sandwich.
Craig Bjarnason spent two years part-time building his Rob Macks Panache Kayak (18'4" x 22.5" ) The hull is knotty Western red cedar covered with 6 oz fiberglass cloth and epoxy. The trim is made from local Manitoba poplar.
The hull and deck of the Rob Macks-designed kayak are western red cedar with aspen accent strips. The coamings are made of laminated ash. Both deck and hull are covered inside and out with fiberglass cloth and epoxy.
Max Buckland couldn't be happier with his 9′ Kidyak, MAXINE, built for him by his grandfather Alan Deforest of Wilimington, North Carolina, and presented to Max on Christmas Day, 2011.
17' 9" glued lap strake sapele plywood with ribbon Sipo mahogany bright work.
Mahogany planked on oiled oak frames. Spruce spars and stainless rigging.
SUNDANCE II "Colonia" sailing dinghy designed in 1901 by Nathanael G. Herreshoff.
Restored in ME by Jonathan Minott (seen in WB "Launchings" July/Aug 2009).