Launchings

After seeing Mystic Seaport Museum's ANNIE A.

A family member built this boat in Louisiana in the early sixties. I remember many early mornings fishing from it as a kid. I spent over 2 years restoring this 54 year old boat along with the original motor that I now use in Panama City, Florida.

Jaap Kraayenhof of Groningen, Holland, took seven years to build this 16′ catboat. He says he spent most of the time reading WoodenBoat magazine, and considers WB to be his boatbuilding training. The boat is built entirely of recycled wood.

This is a relaunching of my rowing skiff. Brass plate on transom states:John D. LittleBuilderOld Lyme, Ct.After researching, I believe him to be the same John D Little who moved from Connecticut to Maine and became somewhat famous for building catboats.

Describing himself as a subscriber from day one, Bob Haig of Sarnia, Ontario, just built a Solo Carry Canoe. Hilary Russell of the Berkshire Boat Building School in Sheffield, Massachusetts designed the Solo Carry.

Adam Birtwistle of Swan River in Perth, Australia, recently finished building a Melanesia Outrigger sailing canoe, designed by James Wharram. He spent a year on the contruction.

A while ago I purchased Nick Schade’s book The Strip-Built Sea Kayak. From it I built his Guillemont. I also liked the look of the Great Auk but liked the speed and ease of ply construction stitch and glue.I drew up the forms and used these to get the general shape. All went very well.

Our 15 foot Joel White designed marsh cat is strip planked with cypress. She is decked with marine plywood, her floors and seats are cypress and she is fiber glassed inside and out with West System product. Her mast, boom and gaff are spruce. Fastenings are of stainless steel.

I signed on for the October 2013 CLC/WoodenBoat Skerry class in Annapolis, with my husband, Wes, assisting, had a great week building the Skerry hull under the expert guidance of instructor Geoff Kerr.After a five-month hiatus enforced by lack of winter workspace, I was finally able to complete t