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A Platt Monfort design called Nimrod 12.Built from off cuts of fir from the mast of the Mystic Seaport’s Amistad schooner, a chunk of green white oak, a few shop scraps and some spare time.
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.
Jim Inglis wanted a boat he could carry on his car while traveling around Australia with his camper trailer. He wanted a light, responsive boat capable of crossing open water, yet maintain a traditional look.
Tom Karsnia designed and built the EDNA BELLE during the summer of 2004. He writes that the boat floats and rides like a dream. It seems as light as a feather in the water. It is easy to maneuver and turns on a dime. It is made of 3/8" marine plywood and western red cedar coated with epoxy.
After taking Thom McLaughlin’s class on building pond yachts at the WoodenBoat School in 2009, John Stoudt spent the rest of that year into the early winter of 2010 working on this model.
Over the 2017-18 winter wooden boat enthusiast and craftsman Fred Kircheis worked with his niece, Tyler Kidder, to build her a Shellback dinghy with sailing rig in his home woodworking shop in central Maine.
Bill Burgess built NELL to sail on Hoods Pond in Topsfield, Massachusetts and the waters of Kittery Point, Maine. Launched in September 2000, she is strip-built with 1/4" northern white cedar cove and bead strips, and covered with fiberglassed epoxy.
I spent the Covid-19 Lockdown finishing Nā Mo’opuna (Hawaiian for The Grandchildren), a 9′6″ Nutshell Pram.
This strip-planked Sea Island Sport Kayak was built by Paul Schriever of Fernandina Beach, Florida.
With a submerged clipper bow and high tucked transom, Kayleigh is every inch a classic powe
Lapstrake, Atlantic white cedar, oak ribs, mahogany thwarts transom, ceder floor boards, spruce m
Mike died before he could complete the boat. Cold-molded, 90% complete.
