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8′ General purpose stitch and glue kayak made of 2 sheets of plywood. The boat weighs 30lb, very easy to transport. Plans are available at www.plyboat.com
Gleaming, screaming, and dreaming! That's JULIA ROSE in a nutshell. With her 500 C! Big Block Chevy engine, Roy Peake's runabout has gone as fast as 75 mph. Her perfectly glistening topsides will turn heads, and inspire a few dreams, everywhere she goes.
This 1954 Peterborough Aqua Flyer cedar strip runabout was restored over 6 years with interruptions for kids and many other fun things. All ribs, keel, keelson, stem, and seats were replaced and the bottom was fibreglassed. The restoration was a family effort involving three generations.
28′ scow hulled catamaran constructed from marine ply and reclaimed wood. Built in Falmouth, Maine, by Steve King and Rick Keith.
With assistance of friends we built 6 rowing shells using Mr. Ron Mueller of Wayland Marine of Bellingham, WA design.The Merry Shelly is an 18ft x 24" 35lb hull stitch and glue kit. The rowing device is a RowWing which was fastened to 4 interior supports.
This heavy duty version of the Digger 17 skiff adds 6 inches of freeboard and optional self-bailing in addition to modified Bosworth check valves installed on the transom. Marine grade plywood, mahogany, cedar, douglas fir, and brazilian cherry used in the build.
Despite working at times “at a glacial pace” for two years, Stirling Cummings of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, finshed and launched his 18′ Night Heron kayak on a cold windy day in February 2012 on Jordan Lake, near Chapel Hill.
We launched our Penobscot 14 after Just under two years build time. All plywood is Hoop Pine. The stem, stringers, transom, and thwarts are all Tasmanian Blackwood, with the rest a mix of other Australian hardwoods.
Launched in Canberra and it rows like a dream.
Re-launching of a 9 ft. Ken Douglas lapstrake row boat after some minor repairs, paint and varnish.
1972 mahogany Van Dusseldorp FD. Spare boat for the Dutch Olympic team (Imhoff / Korver) at the Olympic Games in Kiel, Germany.
Lapstrake dory/skiff built by the Wooden Boat School in Brooklin, Maine in 2021 as a class projec
Excellent condition and freshly painted, custom 16’ Amesbury Skiff 2003, Oak Frame, lapstrake ced
Rowing version as tender to La Vie en Rose. Modifications include laminated frames instead of th
See “LA VIE EN ROSE — A collaborative masterpiece by owner, designer, and builder,” by Bruce Hala
