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Woodie

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Tom Cullison

Chesapeake 17 hybrid kit. Stitch & glue hull, cedar strip deck.

VALENTINAAAH

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Bert van Baar

Stretched version of Caledonian Yawl (with approval of the designer Iain Oughtred stretched by 2'6")

AISLING

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Bill Sterling

Bill Sterling has been building this Haven steadily for the last 17 years, starting in California and then trailering her half-finished hull across the country to complete her in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

MOCCASIN

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Dave Nelson

Dave Nelson took three years to build this Cosine Wherry designed by John Hartsock. He stretched the boat out a foot and a half, but kept the 52" the same as called for by Hartsock. Dave also modified the stem and transom shapes and modified the thwarts.

FISH SLAYER

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Ed Storey

The Rangeley boat evolved out of the need for a guide boat that provided a stable platform for fly fisherman to cast from and to cope with the conditions encountered in the large mountain-ringed lakes near Rangeley, Maine. FISH SLAYER is based off the offsets taken from a boat H.N.

CLC Wood Duck Hybrid 12

Launched 11/6/2016, Lake Cochituate, Framingham, MA, CLC Wood Duck 12 Hybrid. Kept me sane through chemo and radiation.

Dream bid, never quit, never surrender.

- Nick Lukianov

Isobune

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Douglas Brooks

On May 9, 2016, the Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum in Kobe, Japan, launched this 22′9″ Isobune, a type of fishing boat developed in Tohoku, Japan. The boat was built as an exhibition at the museum by Douglas Brooks, who is a boatbuilder from Vergennes, Vermont.

EAGER EMMA

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Rod Dickson-Rishel

Rod's daughter Emma Grace Rishel co-owns this Alpha Dory with her dad. He build it using natural crook live oak frames, planking from a Douglas-fir log in Long Beach, Mississippi. The coamings, wales, and rails are from reclaimed longleaf yellow pine.

Not-Yet-A-Name

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Ernst Glas & Tristan Glas

This Auklet has been built last Winter by Ernst (54) und Tristan Glas (9) as a tender to their wooden sailing boat Rondine, a 13m sloop, finished in 1993. The Auklet is now sailing at rondines foredeck.

WOODEN NICAL

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John Newcomb

WOODEN NICAL is a Joel White—designed Pooduck Skiff built by John Newcomb. He built WOODEN NICAL with okoume plywood planking, with a white oak keel, stems, knees, and 'midships frame. The spars and oars are laminated spruce.