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My friend Will Craig rebuilt RETREAD using Okoume plywood. I bought her in 1988, sailed her for 18 years, then sold her in 2005 to pay for a bicycle tour. Last year, I bought her back and restored her over the winter.
Merv Shaw bought the plans for this Weekender Pocket Yacht more than 25 years ago. He started building the boat 10 years ago, and finally finished in late 2010. SPIRIT OF BIG ISLAND is 19′6″ gaff-rigged sloop designed by Stevenson Projects.
Doug Capps designed and built this 15-foot sea skiff to use in Wrightsville Sound and the other waters near his home. He used strip-planked red cedar construction, 'glassed and epoxied inside and out.
Dave Paquet constructed this 23'6" x 7' fantail launch using yellow cedar strip planking on the hull, and red cedar strips for the decks. This Glen-L 'Harbor master' design took Dave four winters to complete. He launched PILGRIM in May 2004.
GRAVY is the first boat I’ve ever owned. I saw one of designer Berkeley Eastman’s micro tugs at the waterfront boat museum / restaurant at Disney Springs and fell in love. GRAVY is the Candu Junior model.
I wanted to share with you a couple photographs of my Night Heron kayak (LOA 18′, beam of 20″), designed by Nick Shade of Guillemot Kayaks . The boat took nearly two years of weekends and evenings to complete, with work proceeding at a glacial pace during some periods.
Built during lockdown for my 3-year-old daughter, who helped choose the fabric for skinning. The boat is a Wee Lassie from Dave Gentry, built from plans. Very happy with the outcome!
The design brief for Haven was inspired by Lyman and other lapstrake runabouts popular in the late 1950s. She was designed for me by Paul Gartside.
Wood Duck 12 - Built at the WoodenBoat School in August, 2018 and completed in September 2018.
Cedar plank and mahogany boat built in 1950 number 12021.
Joel White Catspaw Dinghy. LOA 12' 8" Beam 4' 6" Draft 6". Build completed in 2019.
JoAhna K is a 58 foot heavy displacement, double ended William Garden motor yacht built 1952.
Core Sound Sink Netter style-round stern, Length 32’, Beam 9’, built 1946 Mildon W Willis Boat Wo
