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CAPITAL GAINES is a glass over plywood boat constructed with sapele frames, meranti marine plywood, with sapele and cypress accents. It’s powered with a Yamaha 70hp outboard motor.
Dale Stoughtenger used only mahogany wood to construct this 16' inboard powered motorboat BIRDY for his son Jay Stoughtenger of Boston, MA. He worked over two winters beginning in late 1999, and launching BIRDY on May 26, 2001 in Chippewa Bay on the St. Lawrence River.
Paul Clausius build DRIFTER using the book, Building the Weekend Skiff, by Richard Butz and John Montaigne. He modified it a bit from the plans in the book. Paul made the fir plywood sides slightly thicher to give the boat additional strength for the rough waters of Geneva Lake, WI.
Two weeks ago we launched a “périssoire” built with plans from François Sergent, a french naval architect, during la fête du nautisme at the lake of Eguzon.
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I built a canoe with wood strip technology.
Long Tail 6.5hp motor rigidly with the possibility of raising and lowering the shaft + teleflex.
Re-launching of a 9 ft. Ken Douglas lapstrake row boat after some minor repairs, paint and varnish.
THE EMERALD is a Six-Hour canoe built by Roger Kofler of Jennings Lodge, Oregon. Roger followed plans in WoodenBoat No.
The Ruback family races its two Nutshell Prams on Seal Bay in Vinalhaven, Maine, a dream that came true after parents Richard and Elaine built them over the winter and launched them in August, 2001.
This is my Doug Hylan designed Point Comfort 18, built and launched in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. It’s glass over marine ply to the designer spec with numerous interior changes including solid inwales, a center console , and exotic hardwood fore deck.
Andy Bosworth used the book "Building Heidi" by Richard Kolin as the source for his 12'4" skiff, which he built as a 50th birthday present for his brother. Andy used Douglas fir, white oak, and mahogany, with marine plywood for the bottom.
Cadenza was built in 2003 at Rockport Marine by shipwright John England from a design by L.
