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HOME GROWN
This is my first build, David Beede’s Summer Breeze. Really enjoyed the whole process now I’m ready to start on another.Here’s a little slide show I made from start to finish https://youtu.be/iAkutwHGTIE
Lion 550 Adrenaline
Designer
Unik Yachts
Lion 550 Adrenaline, light boat, trailer envelope can significantly expand the geography of travel and take the owners a lot of positive emotions and adrenaline.
Noank Pulling Boat
Designer
Nick Schade
The Noank Pulling Boat is an 18′ x 36″ [5.5m x 91cm] sliding seat rowing boat suitable for open water travel.
EDEN'S BOAT
Builder Name:
Stan Swan
When his grandchild Eden was born, Stan Swan started building her an Original Gloucester Rocker. After several more months than he anticipated, he finally finished it and presented it to one-year-old Eden on July 10th this year.
ALICINA BAMBINA
Builder Name:
Morgan Sheasby
Morgan Sheasby built this sailing catamaran over 18 months in shop in Brooklyn, New York.
TRAMONTANA
Year Built:
1934
For my first summer on TRAMONTANA, 2012, I went up the Thames to Tower Bridge, and along the English Channel as far as Eldeberry Cove in Torbay, where I anchored for a week, before returning to Ipswich.
BANANA SPLIT
Builder Name:
Barry Wood
Having built many mono hull boats thought it time to try a catamaran as they say 2 is better than one.
LIL' DIPPER
Builder Name:
Scott Norgan
This is a 3/4 size Dipper designed by Sam Devlin. Just built for fun as a little show boat. I Enjoy cruising up and down the AuGres River in AuGres, MI. People actually come out of their houses to take video as I cruise by.
ZIP
Builder Name:
ALCORT
ZIP is a 1953 Alcort Sunfish, built in Waterbury, CT, the 13th Sunfish from the first pre production batch of 20 boats. Alex Bryan and Cortlandt Heyniger (ALCORT) built these boats and gave them to friends and family to see if they would like the cockpit and wider beam.