Flying Dutchman NED262
1972 mahogany Van Dusseldorp FD. Spare boat for the Dutch Olympic team (Imhoff / Korver) at the Olympic Games in Kiel, Germany.
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1972 mahogany Van Dusseldorp FD. Spare boat for the Dutch Olympic team (Imhoff / Korver) at the Olympic Games in Kiel, Germany.
Cedar strips canoe of the Gil Gilpatrick 16′ Laker design. Modifications to the design includes ash stem guards and scuppered inner gunwals. Hull materials include Western Red Cedar, Eastern White Cedar, and Alaskan Pine accent strips. Stems, gunwals, seats and yoke are ash.
Kisen, an International 5.5m Class yacht was relaunched for her 60th anniversary in May 2014 after having undergone a 4 year long thorough renovation by the owners during 2008 - 2012 and surviving a near-catastrophic yard fire that destroyed all her sails and equipment in 2013.
The boat was finished, and was trailered over to a boat shop for the installation of a 15 hp Tohatsu outboard, on February 2. I am a first time boat builder and found that building the CLC kit was a fun fall/winter project. The boat will be on Lake Couer d’ Alene the next sunny weekend.
13 year old Hannah Dumser of Davidson, North Carolina and her dad Jim finished and launched their Jericho Bay Skiff (WB No. 210, 211) named Juniper. Built out of Atlantic White Cedar and trimmed in Okoume.
This N.G. Herreshoff 1889 designed custom built Coquina “L” has similar kind of rig than International 12 foot dinghy (1912) and small fore and aft decks with watertight compartments.
The boat is a mahogany strip over cherry and walnut frame skiff with maple accents and walnut gunnels. The seats and breasthook are sapelle with maple accents. This was my first build and was built without a plan.
Carmel Dodds built this 14' Jimmy Skiff, from Chesapeake Light Craft, with her husband Peter so she could take her dog, Skeetwing, swimming at Crab Bank in Charleston, South Carolina. This stitch-and-glue kit boat was launched in October of 2001 on Horse Creek in Mt. Pleasant, SC.
David Calloway wrote that a couple of years ago, he was infected with the boatbuilding bug. He spent many enjoyable hours looking for boats to build on the internet before he decided on Jim Michalak's QT design.
John Rhyne launched this Great Auk design kayak on August 31, 2003 near his home in Tennessee. The design is from Nick Schade's book, "The Strip-Built Sea Kayak." John used pine and Western red cedar in the construction.
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