Launchings

GNALGAN has been my project over the winter months in Victoria, Australia. The name is an Australian Aboriginal word for the “Nankeen Night Heron.”She is made of 4mm marine ply which has been coated inside and out with fibreglass.

28′ scow hulled catamaran constructed from marine ply and reclaimed wood. Built in Falmouth, Maine, by Steve King and Rick Keith.

This is a flat-bottomed 16-foot fishing boat called a gandelow (see WB 249 and 250) used in the Shannon river estuary of western Ireland.

Mark Knee sent in this picture of the boat his father Daniel built. It is a Standard Fly Drift Boat which Daniel and Mark use for fishing trips on the Pere Marquette River and the Big Manistee River, trying their luck at trout, steelhead, and salmon fishing.

This 12'2' sailing trimaran started life as a canoe sometime around 1910. Ron Mulloy of Randolph, NJ obtained the canoe in 2001 and started construction by cutting 5' off the original length, then spent the next 4 summers rebuilding her, and adding kick-up leeboards and rudder.

This Offshore Skiff designed by Dave Gerr met all of the requirements Glenn Joyner was looking for in a boat he could use to cruise the sound near his North Carolina home. Glenn wanted a boat that could comfortably sleep two, with standing headroom, head, and galley.

Relaunched after nearly 30 years. The boat has been refinished, the engine has been thoroughly serviced and a fuel pump added. What a sweet little boat, they just don't build them like this anymore. The hull is molded birch and as sound as new.

Dave Nelson took three years to build this Cosine Wherry designed by John Hartsock. He stretched the boat out a foot and a half, but kept the 52" the same as called for by Hartsock. Dave also modified the stem and transom shapes and modified the thwarts.

Re-launching of a 9 ft. Ken Douglas lapstrake row boat after some minor repairs, paint and varnish.

Lucas Pharmer, son of Andrew Pharmer, is seen here standing beside LOUIE DA' BOY, a 15'8" x 33" Iain Oughtred McGregor Canoe. Andrew and Lucas built the boat according to the methods described in Ultralight Boatbuilding by Thomas J.