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Displacement hull launch with 4 HP outboard. Build as batten-seam construction from Alaska Yellow Cedar and Port Orford Cedar lumber (full length 1x6 stock). Bottom is 2 layers 1/2″ marine plywood with epoxy fiberglass to the waterline.
Pintail is a 25′ Chesapeake Bay draketail built by participants in the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s Apprentice for a Day Program in St. Michaels, Md.
Tim White of the Maritime Aquarium in Norwalk, Connecticut, writes, that this boat was part of classes run at the boatshop and started in September 2001. We used the original one page drawing obtained from Mystic Seaport of the Cape Anne Dory dated 1939.
The Elizabeth II is a lovely Chaisson Dory, built in a glued lap plywood construction finished in mahogany.
We were commissioned to build this sweet rowboat for Douglas and Elizabeth Eckmann of Ft. Myers Florida to row and play around in the waves, which she does admirably.
After taking a class in the fundamentals of boatbuilding at WoodenBoat in 2001, Bob Gagnon built OLIVIA, using Richard Kolin's book "Traditional Boatbuilding Made Easy: Building Heidi, a 12-foot skiff for oar and sail." Bob Gagnon writes "OLIVIA spends her time at our camp on Lake Groton, VT Sh
Vince Trtan used a lot of 40-grit sandpaper in the restoration of this Old Town canoe, HW model, hull #150314-7. After sanding off the old canvas, he made new gunwales, keel, seats, and decks. Then he had to replace several ribs and planks.
Jaap Kraayenhof of Groningen, Holland, took seven years to build this 16′ catboat. He says he spent most of the time reading WoodenBoat magazine, and considers WB to be his boatbuilding training. The boat is built entirely of recycled wood.
During August 2010, Don Warfield, Phil Andrews, and Lamar Keeney were among the students who took Jerry Stelmok’s class in Traditional Wood-and-Canvas Canoe Construction at the WoodenBoat School in Brooklin, ME.
PLEASE save our 94 year old Mother's beloved sailboat from the burn pile!
Iconic Spanish Cedar rowing shell for oarsman / oarswoman weighing up to 175 lbs is 25'-9" length
MORNING SONG is the sistership to Lin and Larry Pardey's TALEISIN and was meticulously built by K
