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This rowing/sailing dinghy is based on George Cockshott’s 1913 design done for the British Boat Racing Association.
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This rowing/sailing dinghy is based on George Cockshott’s 1913 design done for the British Boat Racing Association.
She needed to be nesting to be taken out of the basement where she was built.
CLC designed this touring Chesapeake 17LT kayak (16'11" x 231/4"), which was built by Boone Brewer of Smyrna, GA. He plans to use it in the Gulf of Mexico near St. Theresa, FL. Boone used stitch-and-glue construction of okoume plywood, covering the hull and decks with fiberglass cloth and epoxy.
A modified Chesapeake Light Craft Guider. I built this boat over the 2021-2022 winter in my garage/shop in Connecticut. I am sailing her out of Pulpit Harbor in Penobscott Bay, Maine.
Using Phil Bolger's "Sweet Pea" design for inspiration, Allen Head designed this boat for his 9-year-old daughter, Casey. With an overall length of 9', CASEY'S BOAT is constructed from 6mm Meranti plywood. Casey did much of the painting.
This is the “Sea Rover” from the Science and Mechanics Boat Builder Handbook (circa 1958). This was built over the past 2 years. It is plywood over oak frames. I had actually built the 15′ version of this boat when I was 13 years old.
Bill Spring and his grandchildren got a thrill from BILL’S THRILL, his Swifty 12 catboat kit from Fred Shell in St. Albans, Vermont.
WEighing about 200 pounds, this sharpie started life at the WoodenBoat school under the tutelage of John Harris., the designer. Bill Moser attended that class and was lucky enough to win the opportunity to take the partially completed boat home to Florida.
Lee Sandifur built KARI-SAN (15'2" x 4'10") from plans by Samuel Devlin using stitch-and-glue construction. He launched her in Olympia, WA on August 18, 2001. She carries a 13' long mast, which he built of Alaskan cedar.
Ward Brady of Laguna Niguel, CA, built this Shearwater pulling boat from WB Plan No. 58 to bring the "idea of wooden boats to the West Coast." His assistants are rowing.
“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.