RETROSPECTIVE
Lee Rea sent in his recently completed Ken Hankinson runabout, RETROSPECTIVE.
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Lee Rea sent in his recently completed Ken Hankinson runabout, RETROSPECTIVE.
Paul Bennett of Shoestring Shipyard designed this Pilgrim's Pride 16 built by Jimmy Helms of Charlotte, NC. Jimmy writes that it was his first big project and a pleasure to build, going together just as the designer said it would.
Tom Willess of Oakton, Virginia discovered Chesapeake Light Craft a few years ago and has fallen in love with building their kayaks. He has already built two 12′ Wood Duck Hybrids that are stitch-and-glue constructed from one of CLC’s kits.
Gene and Luanna Dykens of Holland, MI launched a 16' wooden canoe with a Polynesian outrigger on April 25, 2003 in Long Lake, MI. Besides paddle propulsion, the boat is also equipped with a small electric motor.
This is a flat-bottomed 16-foot fishing boat called a gandelow (see WB 249 and 250) used in the Shannon river estuary of western Ireland.
EMMY is a 1936 wooden Cape Cod Baby Knockabout (#51) built at Cape Cod Shipbuilding in Wareham, MA. EMMY is 18 feet long and has a beam of 5'10". She had been stored at Hall's Boatyard at Lake George, NY for 25 years, before being rescued by Joe O'Neill and his wife.
When designing The Ashes Solo Day, I imagined a boat where the paddler could stand to look over brush, or apply leverage to push through a mat of grass.
Mark McGinley built this Iain Oughtred–designed 7-1/2′ Auk ELSIE KAY from okoume plywood as well as locally cut quarter-sawn oak, ash, and pine. She is the tender for his Pacific Seacraft PS-25 located in the Apostle Islands area of Lake Superior.
Gleaming, screaming, and dreaming! That's JULIA ROSE in a nutshell. With her 500 C! Big Block Chevy engine, Roy Peake's runabout has gone as fast as 75 mph. Her perfectly glistening topsides will turn heads, and inspire a few dreams, everywhere she goes.
“The Fence” was donated to the Anacostia Watershed Society by teenagers Aaron and Alana Richards, and launched on July 17, 2013.The rowboat had its unusual origins as a project between next-door neighbors. The Fields/Richards and Batson/Eatons shared an aging fence in Takoma Park, Maryland.
2023 Peeler Skiff with 2021 15-hp Mercury outboard and 2021 E-Z Loader Trailer.
1968 Chris Craft has been updated and customized for the classic boat lover.
All original issues of WB, $375; Sails for sloop rig, new condition, luff 29’5” 2 jibs, bagged, $