Tiger Shark
Tiger Shark was built by Community Boat Building 5th graders from the Harvard-Kent School in Boston. They launched it this summer along with 11 other Periwinkles built by their classmates.
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Tiger Shark was built by Community Boat Building 5th graders from the Harvard-Kent School in Boston. They launched it this summer along with 11 other Periwinkles built by their classmates.
I built this CLC Kaholo paddleboard recently.
Details right this way: http://maxeskin.com/blog/2015/08/31/paddleboard/
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We launched the Ozona Pram demo this last May and it debuted at the Cedar Key Small boat Meet 2016
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Andy Rockwood launched this John Gardner Surf Dory on June 24, 2001. He built the boat for Stuart Walker of North Muskegon, MI, who plans to use the boat on the Great Lakes. Andy built the boat using traditional methods with white pine planking on white oak frames.
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Wood hull built with meticulous and painstaking detail from a kit using a "stich-and-glue" method
12' wooden sailing/rowing skiff. Owner built in 1985 from King and Davis design.