Launchings

THE OTHER SIDE is a 16 foot drift boat built to fish the upper Kenai river for trophy rainbow trout. She is built on a Don Hill design and constructed primarily of clear fir by Sailor Ellison, and Bill Blanas in Nikiski Alaska.

This is a kit-built stitch and glue kayak from the friendly folks at Chesapeake Light Craft, Annapolis, MD. The hull is constructed of okoume marine plywood. I elected to tackle the hybrid version which incorporates the tri-color cedar strip deck.

Mark McGinley built this Iain Oughtred–designed 7-1/2′ Auk ELSIE KAY from okoume plywood as well as locally cut quarter-sawn oak, ash, and pine. She is the tender for his Pacific Seacraft PS-25 located in the Apostle Islands area of Lake Superior.

My name is Jessy Hintz from Louisville, CO. In the spring of 2020 my neighbor acquired a 16 foot unfinished cedar striped canoe hull of unknown design. The original outer fiberglass sheeting did not adhere.

After purchasing the plans in 2007, I didn't start building until 2012 when life, work, and materials lined up.

Built from plans by Eric Schade, sold thru Chesapeake Light Craft. Okoume plywood hull, Western red cedar and Northern white cedar deck. My grandson had outgrown his 8′ Duckling (also by Eric Schade) I made for his ninth birthday and chose this for his 15th birthday.

Whitupau is an Oceanic proa dug out of a Western Red Cedar log. Its hull form is Micronesian-inspired (longitudinally symmetrical, but transversely asymmetrical with more camber on the windward side). Its structure is Māori-inspired.

After 20 + years RYE 'N SKYE was finished and launched (receipt for the rough cut cedar was dated July 1999).

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.

Steve Batiste found the plans for this 'Corky' design on the website http://hometown.aol.com/polytarp/corky.htm . The article includes no citation to the builder or the designer.