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Nicky Bastidas, our exchange student from Ecuador, and I built this Solo Carry, based on Eric Schade’s design. (WoodenBoat 205 and 206), as a complement to a paddle I made her.
Cattail is a reproduction of a railbird skiff from the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s small boat collection. The original was built around 1900 for McIlvain Biddle of Philadelphia.
Sea Spirit was built over the past winter by members of the Ayle of Quinte Skiff Club. She joins her sister, Sea Shadow, Canada's first St Ayles skiff on the beautiful waters of the Bay of Quinte at the eastern end of Lake Ontario.
Gorden Schweers had taken a two-week course on building a dory from the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding in Port Townsend, WA before building this modified faering with his son Guthrie.
An Echo Bay Dory Skiff built with a sprit sail rig built from a kit by Chase Small Craft. The boat was 8 years in the making (I have other hobbies too).
Randy Bond built this 18' skin-on-frame canoe from plans of the MicMac model by David Hazen. The wales, keel, and stems are made from ironwood. The frames and stringers are white cedar. The skin is ballistic nylon coated with polyurethane varnish.
Andrew Green recently launched his Wee Lassie canoe. This is the second Wee Lassie he has built. This one is 10′6″ long version weighing 31 lbs using the blue print plans created by Mac McCarthy and using instructions from his Featherweight Boatbuilding book.
Historic Spanish Point is an archaeological site and museum on 30 acres of water front on Little Sarasota Bay in Osprey, Florida. HSP runs a maritime boat building and repair program on the original site of Frank Guptill’s 1890s boat yard.
Iain Oughtred of Findhorn, Scotland, designed this 10' dinghy that Larry Dow built over the winter of 2002. After 200 hours of construction, he launched her in Eliot, Maine, in July 2002. He used 6mm marine plywood with a laminated fir stem and mahogany trim.
Adapted from Bear Mountain plans for the Ranger canoe, this skin on frame canoe was launched by the owner Hank Li in Vancouver, B.C. Canada. Construction is yellow cedar stringers on ash frames and with a mix of ash and yellow cedar trim.
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S/V Labora was built in 1939 in Esbjerg, Denmark, as a traditional Danish Hajkutter—one of the fa
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All original parts. Original owner. Always winterized indoors. Trailer and cover.
