Launchings

3/8″ marine plywood/epoxy and white oak.

This was my first boat project and it took me 4 months to finish it. I used two types of wood: Abachi and iroko. I’ve cut 6mm thick strips and no cove & bead, every strip was beveled manually to match each other.

LEILU is the first Jewell class launched - Aug. 10, 2013. Conceived of by Clint Chase; drawn by Francois Vivier, NA, built by French and Webb, Belfast, ME. Hull is a CNC okoume plywood kit; glued lapstrake on plywood bulkheads; trim is mahogany, spars are sitka spruce.

I built her in Hamina at Etelä-Kymenlaakso Vocational College (Ekami) for scholarly thesis during October 2012- May 2013. The boat was built from a half-model. The half-model was found in 1912 at Sommers.

Skeena is a 20 foot cat ketch rigged trailer sailor. She weighs about 700 pounds and draws 9″ board up and 42″ with the board down. Water ballast adds another 400+ pounds. We sail her on the finger lakes, 1000 Islands and Chesapeake bay with plans for plenty of other spots by trailer.

On Saturday August 12, 2017 at Green Lake in Dedham, Maine I launched, with my daughter Jackie and her husband Ryan Francini my Jericho Bay Lobster Skiff that I named “It’ll Do”. I purchased the plans from WoodenBoat Magazine and began construction in February.

Nat Herreschoff COQUINA launched July 2017. Plans from Doug Hylan. 6 mm. glued lapstrake construction.
Shown minutes before launching with full rig in place.

Serge Larocque launched his Penobscot 14 earlier this year in July after spending 18 months building it. He chose a lug rig for its ease of use with no standing rigging to deal with. Serge reports that it’s a fun and responsive boat.

Surfing kayak.

Mark McGinley built this Iain Oughtred–designed 7-1/2′ Auk ELSIE KAY from okoume plywood as well as locally cut quarter-sawn oak, ash, and pine. She is the tender for his Pacific Seacraft PS-25 located in the Apostle Islands area of Lake Superior.