Sailboats - Racing
START 55
Start 55 expands the range of self-construction project of our Studio.
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Start 55 expands the range of self-construction project of our Studio.
With an overall length of 27 feet this lovely cruiser accommodates up to four passengers comfortably. Room in the head for bunks and a working galley. Great live in boat as well as a weekend cruiser depending on your own personal adventure needs!
Here's a handy boat that can be rowed, sailed, and powered with up to three large adults, and it "nests" to take up less space.
Before the advent of the outboard motor, rowing/sailing skiffs were common on Chesapeake Bay. They were used for crabbing, fishing, transporting goods, and enjoying summer evenings with a friend.
This Bear Mountain design is an efficient wilderness canoe that has proven exceptionally seaworthy.
Elegant, high-performance, sliding-seat pulling boat designed to mitigate the speed-robbing pitching associated with some sliding-seat craft.
Construction: Lapstrake planked over steamed frames.
Alternative construction: Cold-molded, strip or glued lapstrake.
Badger gained widespread fame as the subject of the book Voyaging On A Small Income. The concept of this design was to use the basic interior accommodation plan that worked so well on the 34′ Topsail Ketch Sunrise, which was evolved and improved on during the decade that I lived aboard her.
Sea Otter was designed for an adult night school class I was teaching in boat building, in which nine boats were built at one time. Actually the principles of construction used in Sea Otter are the same as used in many of our larger designs.
Roberts 25 trailerable cruising sailboat you can build in wood epoxy using the plans and full size frame patterns.
A new M80 has been launched in NL.
This tri was built by the ultimate wooden boat builder, Eef, a legend now 81 years has built several wooden multihulls is very happy with his new creation.
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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).
Custom hand-made cedar strip/epoxy freight canoe, 18' with square stern.