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Launchings
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ZIP
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.
FAR HORIZONS
This is the second time Rhett Riviere has owned the ocean cruising ketch FAR HORIZONS, built at Ennals W. Ives Shipyard in Taiwan in 1968. Rhett owned it at one time, sold it, and later bought it back. It needed extensive restorations before he could relaunch the ketch in May of 2004.
JULIA ROSE
Gleaming, screaming, and dreaming! That's JULIA ROSE in a nutshell. With her 500 C! Big Block Chevy engine, Roy Peake's runabout has gone as fast as 75 mph. Her perfectly glistening topsides will turn heads, and inspire a few dreams, everywhere she goes.
Harbour Pram
Ron Bauer built this model skiff to go with the model of his Bunker & Ellis picnic boat. The scale of the skiff model is 1'' = 1'.
EL RAY BARQUERO
Ron Rosene bought this boat in the summer of 2002 and restored it over the winter. EL RAY BARQUERO. is a 21' x 7' Skillcraft Day Cruiser made by Henry Boats in Plain City, Ohio in 1968. Zimmerman Boat Works in Columbus Ohio restored all the surfaces.
CASEY'S BOAT
Using Phil Bolger's "Sweet Pea" design for inspiration, Allen Head designed this boat for his 9-year-old daughter, Casey. With an overall length of 9', CASEY'S BOAT is constructed from 6mm Meranti plywood. Casey did much of the painting.
SPLASH
Don Brady writes "SPLASH was launched at Royal Victoria Yacht Club May 16, 2003 and commissioned as tender to my yacht THETIS.
BOB / #2925
San Francisco Pelican [12 foot] #2925 was launched Dec 12, 2022 at Austin Yacht Club after 1000 hours / 18 months of building. Plans and builders guide were purchased from Duckworks boat building supplies. Built in a traditional manner, Capt.
ELIZABETH M.
Just launched May 15, my Point Comfort 23, in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.The glass over marine ply hull is to plan, but the interior is mostly mine, including the steam bent white oak t-top frame and marine ply cover, and teak covered vertical surfaces.
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1941 35' Seaborn/Blanchard Sloop
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