Launchings

Just completed this is a Duck Trap Wherry, designed by Walt Simmons. Purchased as a stalled project off Craigslist the purchase included plans, a set of forms, a keel with stem and transom attached and four sheets of plywood.

This is a picture of a new launching... well a new play boat for the Learning center in Duncan BC.

Tom Hardison spent 7-+ years building this 24' yawl, LITTLE WOODY. The hull is from a modified Glen-L plan. He added a bowsprit, keel, and made the hull thicker, using two layers of 1/4" laminated plywood. Everything other than the hull was of the builder's design.

Dale Edward Smith owns this lovely Penobscot 14, designed by Arch Davis, and built at the Andaman Boatyard in Thailand. The boat is gaff-rigged and weighs about 170 pounds. Dale uses TIDAK APA-APA at his home in Singapore.

Cosine Wherry. John Hartsock designed it, Bob and Erica Pickett promoted it, J. D. Brown wrote the book (Rip, Strip, and Row).

Philip Bolduc spent less than $1000 in the construciton of this Sailfish look-alike. Chosen for its simplicity, he used stitch-and-glue construction with pieces of 1/4" plywood.

This a my build of the Chesapeake Light Craft, Skerry.
It is classic working, rowing sailer with a Scandinavian design.

A fibreglass sheathed strip built hull with plywood deck sailing canoe based on the lines of a D.N. Goodchild 1940’s canvas on wood frame sailing canoe of Barnegat Bay.

The launch of “Badger” was attended by family and friends at Clark Center Park in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Rich Gaito is seen here sailing JAYLENE KERR off Merchant Island, just south of Stonington, Maine. JAYLENE KERR is a Joel White Shearwater design (16' x 53" beam) that Rich built during the winter of 2001-2002. He used plywood lap construction on laminated frames.