Ken Douglas
Re-launching of a 9 ft. Ken Douglas lapstrake row boat after some minor repairs, paint and varnish.
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Re-launching of a 9 ft. Ken Douglas lapstrake row boat after some minor repairs, paint and varnish.
After visiting several wooden boat shows in the northeast, Andre Vachon finally built his own boat, CAP NATURE, and launched it in June 2005. CAP NATURE is a 16-foot long Stevenson Projects One Design.
David Stevens, a Nova Scotia boat builder, took the lines for the schooner BONNY (30'LOA, 8'beam) from a derelict boat in saw in a field on Bush Island. He built her as a work boat for his own use in his declining years.
In 1962, Bob Ahlers of Beachwood, New Jersey built a Penguin-class sailboat, hull no. 6276, for his son, Rob. The boy and his family named the boat PLAYBOY, and sailed it at the Beachwood Yacht Club for some time.
GNALGAN has been my project over the winter months in Victoria, Australia. The name is an Australian Aboriginal word for the “Nankeen Night Heron.”She is made of 4mm marine ply which has been coated inside and out with fibreglass.
I completed building this Northeaster Dory from a Chesapeake Light Craft kit in June after 8 months of weekends working.
FOUR WHEELS is owned by four Wheelers - Peter, Anne, Katie, and Allison. It is a 1959 Lynman Outboard that had been sitting in a barn for 30 years before Peter rescued it. He took it completely apart, stripped everything, and was able to reuse all of the original pieces except the horn.
Traditional wood/canvas canoe: Rollin Thurlow-designed 13 ft American Beauty. Class-built at WB School summer of 2013 and finished by owner.
After reading Geoff Kerr’s article about the W17 folding/trailerable trimaran in WoodenBoat Magazine #254 I was immediately interested and went to see and sail one.
In 2014 and 2015 Nanette Jockin and Jan Sepp built “Houtje”, a Wabnaki canoe in their summer cottage in Loosdrecht, the Netherlands.
Bought 1982, extensive rebuilding. New stem, transom, cabin, cockpit, etc.
Egg Harbor Sport Fisherman. Reconstructed hull. Cold molded bottom.
1934 39 ft cutter under restoration, available for free due to medical reason.