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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.
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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.
Ben David bought a set of plans for the Redwing 18 from Karl Stambaugh. He built the 18′ 6″ boat from marine plywood, glued and screwed, covered with fiberglas, and then gelcoat. Ben launched her in July 2011 and moors her at Jeddore Harbour in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Jason Perkins teaches a boatbuilding class at Kingswood High School in Wolfeboro, NH and built this 16' E.M. White-designed White Water canoe with his class.
Bob Case built this Arctic Tern kayak from a Pygmy Boats kit. It is 14' long with a 23" beam. He added a little artwork on the foredeck, an Inuit representation of an Arctic tern, with red eyes on a white background. He writes that the boat was a joy to build and a joy to paddle.
The klinker-built faering (four oars) has been used for transportation for centuries along the Norwegian coast line and in the fjords. In the areas close to the Sognefjord the features of the faering is particularly well preserved compared to the vessels of the Vikings.
Martin Herbert built ZOCCOLO, an International One-Metre design, to race in regattas up and down Canada’s west coast. He launched her on January 20, 2017. She is one metre (39″) long, 16cm (6″) wide, and draws 42cm (17″).
After forty years of building skiffs and dories, first, under the tutelage of the old timer, Fred Tarbox, at Lowell’s Boat Shop and later as Parker River Boat Works, this will be my first published launching.
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.
Shearwater 17 made with wooden deck fittings, internal hatch hold downs, and skeg from Superior Kayaks, with custon made wooden control box and lever.
FISH TALES was built from scratch and is substantially all mahogany. A 19 gallon gas tank is beneath the bow deck, along with an anchor hatch. The center console is mahogany and the Captain’s seat is a design borrowed from older Boston Whalers. The boat is powered by a 70 hp Yamaha outboard.
Built on Deer Isle in 1942 , it has an 800 pound steel keel, 4 foot draft.
This vessel received a complete refit in 2007-2008 including re-powering, new decks, new standing
Great little boat I’m letting go of for something larger.
Built by the Burr Bros in 1960, this 36' beauty with a 10'9" beam was restored over seven years a