Launchings

Chris Greer reports that he built SPROUT part-time over the course of two years from Arch Davis's plans for the Penobscot 14 dinghy.

15′6″ Cottage cruiser. Local red cedar, cherry and white oak. Hand woven cane seats.

Nick Riggio built the GERRYLU, a Steve Redmond Whisp design, from Meranti plywood, cypress wood, and mahogany. Nick was a student at Greg Rossel's WB School Fundamentals of Boatbuilding class in the summer of 2002. GERRYLU is 15'7" x 3'6" and is used on the lakes near Webster Groves, MO.

SPIRIT is the first wooden kayak that Rod Chelberg has built. He started with an ocean kayak kit from Newfound Woodworks in Bristol, New Hampshire. Rod used red cedar strips with accent strips of white cedar on the 44 lb. hull.

One off design. 3/8" AC ply lapstrake hull, copper rivets/ rove, reverse stem.

Jack Lightfoot has been busy. He built a Francis Herreshoff/John Gardner pram, then an Iain Oughtred McGregor canoe (15'8" x 33"), and has now started a Phil Bolger dory. Jack writes the McGregor took him six months to build, and that was without using any power tools.

Dave Thompson built this boat using Dynamite Payson's Book, Build the New Instant Boats. He used 1/4" luan plywood, hemlock fir 2x4s, porch floor pain, and spar varnish to build her.

Here’s my recently completed Herreshoff Biscayne Bay 14 built from a WoodenBoat plan. I read the construction article in WB issues 96-98 back in 1990-91 and loved the look of this boat. Made a few minor changes to the plan and outfitted the boat using all antique or replica hardware.

Tiger Shark was built by Community Boat Building 5th graders from the Harvard-Kent School in Boston. They launched it this summer along with 11 other Periwinkles built by their classmates.

Helen M is a 12′ wooden boat shop fishermans’ sailing dinghy in clinker/glued lapstrake construction of fiji kauri marine ply with copper & silicon bronze fastenings & hardwood frames.