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Wendy Norwitz took just four months to built this stitch-and-glue Shearwater Sport kayak created by Chesapeake Light Craft.
Stretched version of Harry Bryan’s Rambler design, 26′ cedar on oak diesel inboard launch, powered by a 20 hp Universal diesel.
John Paul Burke grew up playing with friends Bob, Tony, and Linnie Streit. Now he has built a boat for the parents of his childhood friends, Rob and Charlie Streit.
Charlie Wetherill built this 7′9″ Ruben's Nymph design (plan # 516) by Dynamite Payson and Phil Bolger from plans bought at the website, www.instantboats.com.
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.
Named after builder Bill Terry's wife, ADA BELLE is a Ken Swan Little Gem rowing skiff. The frame is mahogany with plywood bottom and sides. Built for use on Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri, Bill reports that his grandsons love the boat and that she is easily rowed and handles well.
The canoe came from a restaurant in Kansas where it hung from the ceiling. All the old fiberglass had to be stripped off and refinished, and the end stems rebuilt.
Dave Quillen writes that he built and named this boat for his daughter, the actual Lila Wildy. The boat is 14' long, and is constructed of 1/4" marine plywood hull planking, western red cedar stringers, with cypress keel, stem, and rail caps.
My Kayak is a Chesapeake Light Craft “Wood Duck Hybrid.” I started the build on 11/6/14 and completedit on 12/30/14. It took approximately 185 hours to complete the kayak, including time spent on making a “Greenland Paddle” and a few mistakes that needed to be rectified!
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.
"Jack Tar" custom designed and built of white oak, mahogany and teak in 1961 is for sal
“Ruby Slipper” Goat Island Skiff, designed by Michael Storer. 6mm Okoume plywood hull.
Harry Bryan design. 2010 build. Very good condition. Cedar on white oak frames, knees, transom.
