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This boat is a John Harris design know as the Skerry and was built from a Chesapeake Light Craft kit. This was my first boat build and was accomplished in my spare time over about 10 months and a couple of weeks.
ARTEMIS is a John Atkin design, (#772 Wanderer), that my father started building in 1957 and I finished and launched here in VT in 2005. Well, finished is not correct as I am still working on her, and re-fitting her for her 20th anniversary on the water next year.
My Doug Hylan designed 13′ Beach Pea is the first wooden boat I have built from scratch. She is made from okoume ply, Douglas Fir, with utile mahogany thwarts and knees and Sitka spruce spars.
Home built rowing boat built by Joe and Andrew Russell using stich and glue method. Launched at Kingscliff, New South Wales, Australia.
FEATHER is a 16' cedar strip sea kayak Guilllemot design by Nick Schade of East Glastonbury, CT This is the first boat Mitchell Skinner built. It was launched in May 2002 and he uses it on the coast of Maine and NH.
THELMA is an 11’4” cedar strip canoe with Douglas Fir gunwales and Ash stems. She is the first boat built by cousins Tristan and Tom and was made under a tarpaulin shelter at the end of their garden in Southampton, England.
This is a Chesapeake Light Craft Petrel SG sea kayak. Construction is stitch and glue, fiberglass over stained Okuome ply. Custom changes to the kit included the soft pad eyes, dragonfly inlay, a carved skeg control housing and turned carrying toggles and paddle bead.
Dwight Jacobus calls his boat an "outboard cabin launch". Though he lives in Kentucky, he trailered PARASOL 1000 miles to southwestern Florida to launch her on January 15, 2003, after spending 15 months constructing her.
A Dudley Dix designed Cape Henry 21′ that I recently built and launched for a Paris based customer. 3/8″ Okoume ply over ply bulkheads and Southern Yellow pine stringers, sheathed with 4oz glass on the bottom up to the first lap.
Paul Edgar sent these pictures of his recently launched MINOQUA, a 22′ Princess sharpie from B & B Yacht Designs.
JoAhna K is a 58 foot heavy displacement, double ended William Garden motor yacht built 1952.
1958 Fenwick Williams 18' wooden catboat with tender and new 2023 galvanized trailer with stainle
SOLD January 2026 NO more inquiries
