Kaholo 12.5 Stand-Up Paddleboard
At The Folk School of Fairbanks, Alaska, last August, a group of students and their instructors, Andy Reynolds and Bruce Campbell, built a 12′6″ Stand-up Paddleboard in a little over two weeks.
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At The Folk School of Fairbanks, Alaska, last August, a group of students and their instructors, Andy Reynolds and Bruce Campbell, built a 12′6″ Stand-up Paddleboard in a little over two weeks.
Don Brophy writes "While searching for a Lyman, Everett Foster happened across an aricle in WB on MacKenzie Cuttyhunks.
Flossie is, essentially, a New Haven Sharpie. She has been modified for use as a canal boat. 49' loa 11.5' beam 2.5' draft 16,500 disp.. Her chines have been truncated to provide a flat surface lying alongside a straight bank.
James Gowen and his family launched this Catspaw Dinghy, BLUE LOBSTER, in their family pool at their home in Berwyn, Pennsylvania. BLUE LOBSTER was designed by Joel White, and is 12'8" long, with a 4'6" beam. James planked the hull with white cedar on oak frames.
Don Lewis took 16 months to build his first boat, PILGRIM, a Karl Stambaugh design called Redwing 18. It is an 18'6" cuddy cabin boat. Mr. Stambaugh's advice was invaluable and Kitzman's Lumber of Dixon, Il went out of their way to deliver special orders.
A stripper that goes by the name BONNIE. Built from recycled pine, oak and black walnut. She’s a cross between a kayak and and a canoe… a kayoe if you will.
Ed Vickery helped to build and repair boats for quite a while before he built his first wooden surfboard. He built it from several woods including bamboo, black walnut, fir, aframosa, and paulownia; then covered everyting with a layer of 4-oz fiberglass.
Seven-year-old Jamie Lowrey had the idea of building this boat from a single sheet of spare plywood. He and his father made scale models from shirt cardboard and built a full-size model from cardboard boxes in the living room of their Manhattan apartment.
These sectional canoes were made of plywood and fiberglass. When it was being carried to the Torch Lake in Michigan, four parts stayed in the trunk of my car and one part in the back seat. It turned into the whole canoe in a couple of minutes before hitting the clear water of the lake.
IRONDEQUOIT II was launched again last summer after an extensive paint job at Ventis in Enkhuizen (the Netherlands). Her hull, decks and masts were painted and all her mahogany was varnished again.
Restored in ME by Jonathan Minott (seen in WB "Launchings" July/Aug 2009).
Partial restoration. Has rare Edson oscillating (worm) steering system.
1996 36 x 11 x 4 , picnic cruiser double ended. Cedar on oak bronze fastened.