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This 12 foot Wood Duck from Chesapeake Light Craft is a stich and glue design Kayak made from Okoume and Sapele marine plywood. My wife and I started in January 2014 and finished in July 2014.
My friend Will Craig rebuilt RETREAD using Okoume plywood. I bought her in 1988, sailed her for 18 years, then sold her in 2005 to pay for a bicycle tour. Last year, I bought her back and restored her over the winter.
Jim Hammond built this 15'6" double-ended rowing skiff from a mold found in the shop of the late Harold "Bones" Bulmer of Ontario, Canada. Jim calls this the first 'modern' version of a boat built by Mason Boatworks in St. Williams and Port Rowan, Ontario, Canada.
Rowland Hill completed this 15' x 4' York Delaware Ducker in November 2000. He got the plans from Mystic Seaport Museum. Planking is epoxied Sapeli marine plywood. Rowland used oak for the stem, rudder, dagger board, and cowling. He and his son sail the boat in Pleasant Bay, Cape Cod.
In the late 1950’s, my younger brother and I spent summers at our grandparents’ cottage on the Winnipeg River in northwestern Ontario, fishing and exploring in a small squat wooden rowboat called the Flea.
Bob Reynolds writes "On October 20, 2001, the new maritime museum of Sandusky, Ohio launched EGRET, the wetlands punt profiled in your designs 98, issue 146.
Our boat GRACE is an Iain Oughtred designed Auk tender. This boat is our first boat building project and came about when a friend experienced in boat building offered his assistance. With no woodworking experience we began with great trepidation.
David Jarrett rescued this boat and spent one year restoring it, before launching it in July 2002. It had been in storage for years, and had numerous layers of paint and varnish to be removed. He refinished the hull and replaced the seats and floors.
A modified Chesapeake Light Craft Guider. I built this boat over the 2021-2022 winter in my garage/shop in Connecticut. I am sailing her out of Pulpit Harbor in Penobscott Bay, Maine.
Built in 1972 by Trumpy Yachts in Annapolis, MD overall length is 72' / 21.95m, with a beam of 18
Solid wood construction (pine?), 18' 4" length, roller reefing, from 1960 Polish built
"Sarah Mead" #59, advertised as "Maine's Sailing Lobsterboat" is looking for her next adventure.
