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Rick Granger built this Chesapeake Light Craft Wood Duck 10 over six weeks in the winter of 2010-2011. The 10' hull weighs just 34 pounds and is made from 3mm okoume plywood, with a deck of western red and white cedar strips.
Ceili Connors enjoys using this Laughing Loon "Wee Too" Canoe on the quiet inlets of Narragansett Bay, RI. Her father Ken built this little double paddle canoe for her. Ken mentions that Rob Macks was very helpful during the construction.
The boat is an Alden Indian rigged with it’s original gaff sail plan.
Completed in five months. All West System epoxy with fiberglass over the 1/2″ plywood hull and top coated with Awlgrip and Epifanes varnish, The wood is stained white ash milled from 4/4 rough sawn stock.
Bob Elliott led seven students in the construction of this Merrimack Skiff built at Lowell's Boat Shop, Amesbury, Massachusetts during the winter of 2001. with a length of 13'3" and a beam of 2'6", the skiff is built of agathis planks riveted over sawn oak frames.
This boat was designed and built by Robert Wallace between October 2001 and May 2002. He launched her in May on White Oak Pond in northeastern Pennsylvania. The skiff has a 10' LOA and maximum beam of 39". She is a semi-V hull.
Mike Hughes had hoped to build a Columbia dinghy for himself but, "as life, family, and business crowded in I never got past the stage of milling and seasoning the keel, and laying in the New Zealand kauri." Some years late, Mark Jack contacted Mike about building a Columbia for him.
On July 1, 2013, William K. Wills launched 12-TOO in Urbanna, Virginia. He built the 12′4″ Yankee Tender skiff from WoodenBoat Plan #400-011 available from The WoodenBoat Store.
“Morning Sun”, a Workstar 17 Prefix System™ kit boat, built by a combined team from Heritage Coast Sailing & Rowing, the city’s Elks Lodges and youngsters on a community program: Tawas City, Michigan. Launch Day August 7th, 2018.
In early August 2004, the 18'6" White Guide Canoe first touched water on Lake Winnipesaukee, NH where her owner, Matt LaMarche, spends his summer weekends. ELLIE BELLE took 4 months to build, being strip-built of cedar, ash, maple, cherry, and rosewood, cover with cloth and epoxy.
Newfound Adirondack Guide Boat - New 16'-2" long, 36.75" beam with (2) 8' Shaw & Tenney oars.
A classic boat built by the East End Classic Boat Society in Amagansett, NY in 2014.
Beautiful Annapolis Wherry rowing boat from Chesapeake Light Craft, designed for smooth, efficien
