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S/Y ELISE is a custom build boat to fit our customers needs. She is a replica of French boat from Victorian era, design #203 by Paul Gartside Designs. Her hull was build at the Ekami Woodenboat Building School, Hamina, Finland but due to unfortunately issues she was never completed there.
Stephan Bradley writes that his Rob Roy 13' cedar-strip canoe was inspired by Nick Schade's book, "The Strip-Built Sea Kayak," and a design by Ted Moores and Steve Killing at Bear Mountain Boats, www.bearmountainboats.com.
Chris Bullen started building SAM'S SMILE in February 2000. Rascal is 14'8 x 5'6" Ken Bassett Rascal design. Launched in May 2001, he named it SAM'S SMILE as he could not "keep the grin off his face whenever he went into the garage to work on it.
Named for feisty duck in Hagar the Horrible, this small boat is a Milgate Duck Punt. Built of plywood in the "stitch and glue" method, she was built from the free plans found online and launched at the Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival in St. Michaels MD on October 6.
John Brooks and Ruth Hill and their four children at Brooks Boats Designs designed and built a new plywood kit boat last summer. The DragonFlyer design is meant to be a trainer for beginning sailors and then grow with their skills, offering lively sailing as their own skills are developed.
Our own Nutshell Pram, built during 2013, and launched on November 25, 2013 in the waters of the Rio de la Plata, Port of San Isidro, Argentina.
I began working on this Chesapeake light craft Annapolis Wherry on July 19th 2021 and launched on September 11th 2021
I went overboard on the design, but it was great to build but it took a long time (almost a year in the making!). I love the results. This is a hybrid SUP, plywood on the bottom, cedar strip on the top. The design is a random pattern with the occasional thin oak strip for stability during buil
FOUR WHEELS is owned by four Wheelers - Peter, Anne, Katie, and Allison. It is a 1959 Lynman Outboard that had been sitting in a barn for 30 years before Peter rescued it. He took it completely apart, stripped everything, and was able to reuse all of the original pieces except the horn.
This is a Ken Swan Design 15' Chica rowboat. Herb Fisher built it of fir marine plywood over mahogany frames, covered with WEST epoxy. He launched it on July 4, 2001 in the Toms River, NJ.
Mike died before he could complete the boat. Cold-molded, 90% complete.
21' 1982 custom built, cold-molded open runabout designed by Pete Peterson and built by Bruce Far
18' West Pointer, possibly made by Alton Wallace West Point, Maine. (see WoodenBoat No.
