Launchings

As a student of Ted Moores' WoodenBoat School class, David Racicot worked on this strip-built Freedom 17 canoe, designed by Steve Killing. David took it home and launched it in September 2002 at Suffolk, VA.

This 1922 17' Old Town canoe was restored by Dave Millikan of Inverness, FL. It is Model HW, Grade CS, Serial No. 67358, and had been delivered to Abraham and Strauss back in 1922. Dave found it in storage in the Adirondacks in 2001.

This Auklet has been built last Winter by Ernst (54) und Tristan Glas (9) as a tender to their wooden sailing boat Rondine, a 13m sloop, finished in 1993. The Auklet is now sailing at rondines foredeck.

Don Brophy writes "While searching for a Lyman, Everett Foster happened across an aricle in WB on MacKenzie Cuttyhunks.

Tom Wakefield built this 14′ Puddle Duck Canoe with plans from Gil Gilpatrick. He built the 45 lb hull from 1/4″ clear pine then coated it with fiberglas cloth and epoxy. The rails are from clear pine and mahogany.

Doug Burns built this Shearwater 17 from a Chesapeake Light Craft kit. The honey colored hull is Okoume plywood, the dark red deck Sapele. She has an LOA of 17′ and a beam of 22″. Designed by Eric Shade, she weighs about 45lbs.

I built this kayak for my grandson, who loves to fish. So I built a fishing kayak, with retractable outriggers. The outriggers are stitch and glue, the kayak is plywood on frame.

Students Sheldon Patterson, Ross Melhorn, and Andrew Dingledine built this Jon boat at Edgewood High School in Trenton, Ohio, under the instruction of Mark Schallip. They found plans for the 12′ x 4′ hull online and then modified those plans to create this design.

This is the 53rd Prides Rock skiff built by the students of Jeremiah Riordon at Landmark School in Prides Crossing, MA. Launched in June 2001, the skiff is 10' long with a 52" beam. Jeremiah Riordon designed this model as an instructional tool.

SPLENDOR is based on the saveiros design (from saveleiro, used on the rivers of Portugal to fish for savel/shad). For Brazilians, saveiros are used not only for fishing but to transport merchandise and passengers.