Launchings

This N.G. Herreshoff 1889 designed custom built Coquina “L” has similar kind of rig than International 12 foot dinghy (1912) and small fore and aft decks with watertight compartments.

The eight coats of varnish Jeffrey Fette applied to HONEYPIE II don't seem enough to protect this beautiful strip-built kayak designed by Ted Moores. Jeffrey used alternating strips of ash and merantion the sides and layered ash on the cockpit coamings.

Jackie Lih, age 7, helped her father, Arthur, to build this 8′ Grace's Tender from a kit by Arch Davis. They made the hull from 4mm okoume plywood on white pine frames.

Rene Burdahl of Innvik, Norway has been busy building boats. Among his recent boats are a 16' canoe. The plans called for cedar strip planking, but Rene used spruce and then glassed the hull inside and out. The seats are oak and gunwales are elm. The yoke and breasthook is cherry.

Bob Arant built this 16' Meadow Bird sailboat using plans from GFC Boats, 490 Hagan Road, Cape May Courthouse, NJ 08210. SAY WHEN, has a strip-planked hull, and was launched July 2004 in Omaha, Nebraska. Contact Bob at 13615 N. 42nd Street, Omaha, NE 68112.

Ted Jones of Gundalow Boat Shop in Ossipee, NH designed and built this 11'6" dory skiff BANNITO for his son and grandson. She was launched in September 2002 on the Sakonnet River in RI. Her hull is okoume plywood with epoxy and Dynel. She is based on his earlier design, the DORITA dory.

ABIGAIL TIINA is built to Simon Watts’ Sea Urchin design. The boat is planked in pine. Keel, timbers and gunwales are white oak, and transom, breasthook and quarter knees are mahogany.

My 1954 Edwin Monk designed, Popular Mechanics,15 foot Knockabout, in the water again after extensive restoration, her name Cap'n Ellery after Artist, author, fisherman, and my hero Ellery Thompson 1899-1986.

Lofting the plans from Nick Schade's book, The Strip-Built Sea Kayak, Kevin Rautio built this 17′ Guillemot Sea Kayak from Spanish cedar. He spent about a year building it, including the lofting and scratch-building everything, even the strips.

Launching Renetta, Rooster # 746, at the first annual Rooster Week, in 2014.