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Tammie Norrie 15 foot dinghy
My first boat !
I started her late 2017 but in March 2018 I quit my job and worked on her every day.
CHRISTIN MARIE is a modified version of Reuel B. Parkers Exuma 52 design. This is a shoal draft, pilot house, centerboard schooner. Hull is cold-molded, covered in Xynole-Polyester cloth. I modified the cabin to allow for walk-through in the NW colder climate.
This is an Arrow 14 geodesic canoe designed by Platt Monfort. I used spruce for the stringers, gunwhales, and rub rails, oak for the ribs, cutwaters, and keel, mahogany for the breasthook and knee stems, cherry for the gussets, and maple for the thwarts. The skin is 30 gauge vinyl.
13′ Doug Hylan Beach Pea. Glued lap, okoume ply planking, black locust sheerstrake, stems and keel. Eastern white cedar thwarts and floorboards.
Rob Richard sent these photos, taken by Ray Forbes, of a Kingfisher canoe built at WoodenBoat School during the summer of 2003.
Jeff Spira has news from Iceland. He writes, "Geir Gislason and August Hinriksson recently launched this new 11' stitch-and-glue skiff. It has 1/4" plywood frames and 1/4" plywood covering. The design is a Spira International Mission Bay plan, available from Spira International, Inc., P.O.
When he couldn't find exactly the boat he wanted, dave Edinburg designed his own. Using the lines of the International 505 as a starting point, John created the cold-molded CARIBE. He used two layers of 3mm okoume plywood for the planking over plywood frames.
Using Bill Platt's design, Eric Rasmussen built this 18' pulling boat and launched it in the summer of 2007. Eric writes that used white spruce and white cedar that he logged in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, which he then milled into bead-and-cove strips for the hull.
Marshwiggle, a Dave Gentry designed Chuckanut 15 kayak. Marine ply and cedar, with polyester skin.
This is a modified version of a T.L. Simmons 18′ sea skiff.I used marine plywood sides instead of Lapstrake. I use the boat in the 10,000 Islands and in the Atlantic. Very seaworthy and tough.
39' sloop currently undergoing full cosmetic refit at Cutts and Case in Oxford, MD.
Meraboire 1, one of the last known Pinaud motor yachts, is for sale.
Custom built at Madisonville Maritime Museum. 2019 19' magic tilt galvanized trailer.
