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Novice boater Norah Ketrow loves her new boat KELP, a present for her first birthday from her father, Aaron. The design is an Original Gloucester Rocker, built from plans sold by The WoodenBoat Store, www.woodenboatstore.com.
Northern White Cedar strip canoe with black walnut and cherry detail. Cedar tree cut down and strips milled by builder. No nail/staples construction method utilized.
Tolman Skiff Widebody custom build for a customer in Georgia. Stock Tolman plans with Bridsall Marine aftermarket console and leaning post and Fishmaster foldable T Top. Epifanes signle part monourethane topside paint with Petit Black Widow bottom paint.
Wood Duck 12 Hybrid, first time builder. Approximately 3 month build time.
James McFadden, age 4, has a wonderful pilot in his 11-year-old brother Dominic, on this Chesapeake Light Craft 14′ Wood Duck Double Kayak. Dominic built it with a little help from his grandfather, Ned Farinholt. Dominic and James live near the Shenandoah River in Front Royal, Virginia.
SUNDANCE II was built in 1975 at a yard in Essex, CT on lines from Nathanael Herreshoff’s sailing dinghy GARYOWEN [1926], which was in turn drawn after Design #568 [1901], “Colonia Sailing Dinghy.” In the late 1970’s SUNDANCE II was transferred to a series of museums where she fell into disrepai
Launched 11/6/2016, Lake Cochituate, Framingham, MA, CLC Wood Duck 12 Hybrid. Kept me sane through chemo and radiation.
Dream bid, never quit, never surrender.
- Nick Lukianov
Having built many mono hull boats thought it time to try a catamaran as they say 2 is better than one.
This is Chesapeake Light Craft’s tandem wherry rigged as a single. I started working on it the spring of 2015, continued through that summer and then hit the pause button when work was interrupted by life (hernia surgery) and cold temperatures. I finished up the wherry this summer.
“The Fence” was donated to the Anacostia Watershed Society by teenagers Aaron and Alana Richards, and launched on July 17, 2013.The rowboat had its unusual origins as a project between next-door neighbors. The Fields/Richards and Batson/Eatons shared an aging fence in Takoma Park, Maryland.
Sweet-lined Acorn skiff designed by Iain Oughtred, completed in 1999 but still like new.
PLEASE save our 94 year old Mother's beloved sailboat from the burn pile!
MORNING SONG is the sistership to Lin and Larry Pardey's TALEISIN and was meticulously built by K
