Launchings

Built from just a single sheet of plywood, this Puddle Boat designed by William Garden got plenty of attention from Denney Freeston's grandchildren this summer.

AYLA is my first attempt at boat building a 12 foot wooden rowboat engineered for an outboard (8hp Tohatsu) and was titled and registered by the Virginia Dept.

This was my first wooden boat project and it took me 4 months to finish it. I’ve used abachi and iroko for the strips

Lary Kuhns built this 19′ drift boat, IACOBOS from plans by Jerry Estes of British Columbia.  IACOBOS is very rugged, with a 1″ bottom of CVG fir, glassed inside and out.  Lary uses the boat to fish the Kenai River near his home in Homer, Alaska.  

Here is a Jeff Spira designed Pescadero I recently completed. It’s a Carolina style dory style that's been customized for fishing the central west coast of Florida. The boat performs well and makes a great fishing platform.

Sea Skiff. Free plans published in 1950's Plans here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3HJtuO1-n5adVVPRk5sdWxlUnM/view

19' night heron

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.

I built this kayak all by my lonesome in a little shop in Pemaquid, Maine. She’s a beauty (takes after her owner is what I’ve been told), and handles something like a Corvette. I just finished a trip with her up the coast to Machias Port, and am back home dry and tired.

Bob Chaput and Dick Dowdell built this Peeler Skiff from a John Harris-designed Chesapeake Light Craft kit. She will carry children and grand children fishing and digging clams in the salt waters of Southern New England.