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Constant Camber construction. Main hull has inner/outer layers of 1/14″ fir, sandwiching two layers of cedar. Amas are three layers of fir. Started building 30 years ago!!
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Constant Camber construction. Main hull has inner/outer layers of 1/14″ fir, sandwiching two layers of cedar. Amas are three layers of fir. Started building 30 years ago!!
The Lowell Town Class was originally designed in 1932 as a safe children’s training boat. Today they are raced by Town Class Association enthusiasts in MA and RI.The Landing School undertook to build three of these boats in the 2019-2020 school year but only one was completed due to COVID-19.
Steve and Jamie Reed of Greeley, Colorado, built this cute little rocking boat with no metal fasteners, just glue and dowels. They used teak, purple heart, poplar, pine, ash, and oak. Some tiny Reed captain should be overjoyed with their first command.
The Mebo 12 is a new versatile nesting dinghy I designed and built last winter and spring.
Cedar strip kayak called The Spirit from a kit sold by Newfound Woodworks. Sleek and fast!
PRISCILLA C is a small steam launch based on a Stuart Turner 5 A single cylinder engine of 2 1/4" bore and 2" stroke. It produces about 1/2 HP at 30 PSI from a water tube, wood fired boiler.
A 1952 8-metre built by Anker & Jensen (number 480) in Vollen near Oslo, Norway was relaunched after a lengthy restoration by Tiffany Yachts on the Great Wicomico River, Chesapeake Bay, Virginia on June 29th.
Doug Capps designed and built this 15-foot sea skiff to use in Wrightsville Sound and the other waters near his home. He used strip-planked red cedar construction, 'glassed and epoxied inside and out.
Anita Repp has a new 15' skiff, PENELOPE, built by her husband Doug, for fishing and picnicking. Doug made PENELOPE with plywood planking on pine frames, and he use fir for the keel and chines. The hull is covered in epoxy and fiberglass cloth.
This reproduction 19th/20th Century sprit-rig Core Sound Sailing Skiff was built in 2012, at the
QA17 will be at The Antique Boat Museum in Clayton, NY’s August 3rd auction with no reser
This was my first retirement project and my first boat build.