ATHEY

ATHEY weighs only 65 pounds and floats on the water like a leaf. She is built using Tom Hill style ultra-light techniques to produce a boat you can roll to the water with kayak or canoe wheels, drag on the beach and maintain easily.  With 7-1/2’ spruce oars, she has the optimum rowing efficiency Mr. Herreshoff originally intended, plus a transom to take an electric trolling motor.

A moveable center thwart allows perfect trim for one or two fixed seat rowers while the forward thwart and three steamed or laminated ribs strengthen the glued lap-strake sides.  A drop in sliding seat fits.

Her hull is built on a strongback with frames and ribbands for drawing out and clamping each pair of planks. Her bottom is 9 mm sapele or apitong marine ply, and her planking is cut from two sheets of 4’x 8’, 4 mm ocoume, one of 6 mm, (or ¼” fir plywood (4’x 8’or 10’).    Cost is about $450 and labor is about 220 hours.

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