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AYLA is my first attempt at boat building a 12 foot wooden rowboat engineered for an outboard (8hp Tohatsu) and was titled and registered by the Virginia Dept.
This is my new launch Cirrus Greenland style kayak - 17′ 2″, 43lbs — stitch and glue mahogany and ribbed poplar with cherry and Spanish cedar accents, blackened epoxy seams, strengthened with carbon fiber in high stress inner deck and hull areas, and has rare earth magnetically sealed hatches fo
PATIENCE is a cedar strip hybrid 12′ Wood Duck Kayak. She is glassed in and out, and weighs in at 45 lbs. This was my first atempt at strip building. It was labor intensive but highly rewarding.
Launched in July 2002, David Jost built this sprit-rigged micro-cat-ketch from plans by Phil Bolger and Friends. He built FIREFLY using bronze-fastened marine plywood covered with 6 oz fiberglass set in epoxy.
Cattail is a reproduction of a railbird skiff from the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s small boat collection. The original was built around 1900 for McIlvain Biddle of Philadelphia.
I built this PT 11 nesting dinghy from the CLC kit over this past winter, to replace a 9'6" Nutshell pram I built a few years ago not from the kit (the kit is better...) It is a fabulous dinghy-rows like a dream, sails well and nests and unnests in minutes-much credit to Russell Brown and PT Wate
Last year, the physics class at the International Academy in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, built cardboard boats as a class project. Each group of four students had to design a boat that could be built from 4′ x 8′ sheets of eighth-inch-thick corrugated cardboard.
The Ruudi V is a Savo 575 , a Finnish racing rowboat designed by Ruud Van Veelen. It's a very fast single with a sliding seat, non-feathering oars, and very light weight .
Colin Williams built this Mill Creek 13 kayak from plans by Chesapeake Light Craft. He uses her mainly in the estuary of the Crookhaven River and in Lake Woolumboolah near the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, near Jervis Bay.
2018 Dark Harbor 17 1/2 constructed western red cedar planking on white oak frames., Teak deck.
100% original. Built by Saybrook Yacht Yard, CT. Always stored inside and covered.
LOA 22’-3”, Beam 6’-6”, Draft 2’ Disp. 1,500 lbs.
Launched by Ralph and Richard in 1992 for the original owner until 2024.
