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Launchings
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Wood Duck Hybrid 12
Builder Name:
Doug Strange
CLC Wood Duck Hybrid. Deck was created using reclaimed old-growth redwood salvaged from 100 year hold home remodel.
VOILETTE
Builder Name:
Thomas Dantin
Chesapeake style v-bottom sailing skiff.
All hardwoods Sapele
Meranti Plywood
Cypress spars and oars
Bronze fasteners and hardware
BLACK DAMSEL
Builder Name:
Lorenz Rutz
BLACK DAMSEL is a Ken Bassett Firefly design, plans from WoodenBoat. Bassett’s plans call for plywood fastened to stem, keelson and chine logs. I wanted to build this boat stitch and glue to simplify things and hopefully reduce the weight.
BYD F1430
Builder Name:
Sam Smith
Bedard Yacht Design F1430 Sit On Top Stitch and Glue.
Taken on a weeklong river trip in Montana.
ELSIE KAYE
Builder Name:
Steve Lansdowne
Glued lapstrake Phoenix III designed by Ross Lillistone. Built over a period of 3 years, with most of this occurring during the 2021 COVID Pandemic.
JOANIE
Builder Name:
Andrew Green
Launched my Skunk Island Skiff sailing version built from plywood and pine. Douglas fir mast, spars and oats. Stainless steel fasteners and hardware.
T-REX 617
Builder Name:
Boy Scout Troop 617 of Columbia, Maryland
Boy Scout Troop 617 in Columbia, Maryland, undertook building a Bevin’s Skiff to expose the Scouts to parts of a building project they would later face when doing their Eagle Scout projects.Working from an instruction manual provided with the kit from Alexa
MERLIN
Builder Name:
Jim VanNatta
After reading Geoff Kerr’s article about the W17 folding/trailerable trimaran in WoodenBoat Magazine #254 I was immediately interested and went to see and sail one.
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MORNING SONG
MORNING SONG is the sistership to Lin and Larry Pardey's TALEISIN and was meticulously built by K
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