Puffin
The Welsford Navigator, Puffin, was launched on June 5, 2016. This is my first scratch built boat. Okume plywood was used throughout with white oak and Brazilian cherry for the various and sundry bits.
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The Welsford Navigator, Puffin, was launched on June 5, 2016. This is my first scratch built boat. Okume plywood was used throughout with white oak and Brazilian cherry for the various and sundry bits.
FRANNY is David Sharp's first wooden boat effort. She is 11' long with a 59' beam. He constructed her using marine plywood epoxied to fore-and-aft stringers with mahogany seats. He launched FRANNY in August of 2001 and uses her on the waters of Green Bay, NS, and Ottawa, ON.
Fiberglass cloth/epoxy and marine plywood on pine frame powered by 30hp Suzuki. During construction of interior we added mahogany rail caps and a front anchor locker with seat and hardware.
On May 9, 2016, the Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum in Kobe, Japan, launched this 22′9″ Isobune, a type of fishing boat developed in Tohoku, Japan. The boat was built as an exhibition at the museum by Douglas Brooks, who is a boatbuilder from Vergennes, Vermont.
Bill Walker built this semi-vee skiff starting in fall of 2014 and launching in May of 2016. After building nine other stitch and glue boats, Bill designed and built this skiff himself. It is constructed of meranti Bs-1088 plywood with select pine trim.
Weighing only 20 pounds, this "mini-canoe" was designed and built by Robert Van Orden. He writes that it cost just over $50 and took about 20 hours to build. He used a single sheet of 3/16" plywood for the planking and made the stems and ribs from pine. It is 7'8" long and 27" wide.
This Chesapeake Light Craft Wood Duck 10′ hybrid strip kayak was built with white cedar, walnut, and Doug fir by Community Boat Building campers.
Modified Doug Hylan Beach Pea, built from Meranti plywood as a tender for our Gartside/Jespersen yawl, “La Vie en Rose”. Storage/flotation compartments have been installed under the stern sheets using the water-tight hatch kits from Port Townsend Watercraft.
Tom Shives built this Glen-L Drifter, from Glen-L Marine plans, with a small group of men from his church.
SHELBY is a 11'2" Shellback Dinghy built by Chris Ireland of Toronto, Canada. He built SHELBY over the winter of 2000-2001 and launched her into the Bay of Quinte at the eastern end of Lake Ontario in May 2001.
Bought 1982, extensive rebuilding. New stem, transom, cabin, cockpit, etc.
Built by Richard Cottreau. Heavily constructed. 60-hp Honda, very low hours.
Would make a great lake boat or for your children, low draft.
Beautiful 15' Crab Skiff Sailboat. Built at the St. Augustine Lighthouse. $5,000.