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Wood Duck 12 - Built at the WoodenBoat School in August, 2018 and completed in September 2018.
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Wood Duck 12 - Built at the WoodenBoat School in August, 2018 and completed in September 2018.
The Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building launched this 14′7″-long Scandal skiff last summer. William Atkin designed the Scandal in 1924 to be a slender and fast boat suitable for use with a small outboard motor.
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.
Chris Kern built this skin-on-frame pontoon boat using a frame he bought on Craigslist and some cedar frames. He covered the pontoons in ballistic nylon. Chris uses his boat for "tame floats" near Salem, Oregon
Bill Warm restored his Seaford Skiff in 2009 and says that he built the skiff in 1999.
Julian Swindell found the plans for this Portuguese-style dinghy, NELLIE GRACE designed by Hannu Vartiala of Finland, who has these plans available for free at his website, koti.kapsi.fi/hvartial.
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
Paul Clausius build DRIFTER using the book, Building the Weekend Skiff, by Richard Butz and John Montaigne. He modified it a bit from the plans in the book. Paul made the fir plywood sides slightly thicher to give the boat additional strength for the rough waters of Geneva Lake, WI.
The Launchings section of WoodenBoat No. 225 featured Wayne Mueller's skiff BLUEBIRD, a 17′ 6″ design that Wayne based on Tom Hill’s Long Point skiff and Mark Murray's Sea Hoss skiff. BLUEBIRD was built from meranti and sapele marine plywood on sawn elm frames.
This a my build of the Chesapeake Light Craft, Skerry.
It is classic working, rowing sailer with a Scandinavian design.
Beautiful American Traders 13' Seneka cedar canoe in brand new condition.
Arch Davis Jiffy V22 Skiff 2011. 8'-6 beam, meranti plywood, douglas fir framing, MAS expoxy.
Big Scoot by William Harless
ca1938, 'Cane' Rig,
2 suits of sails, Trailer