Launchings

When designing The Ashes Solo Day, I imagined a boat where the paddler could stand to look over brush, or apply leverage to push through a mat of grass.

Mike and Billee Gearheard sail the 9'6" Nutshell Pram they built on Puget Sound and Matz Matz Bay in Washington State. They named this Joel White design CHOTARA 1. Launched on March 30, 2002, she is of glued lapstrake construction, and carries a lug mainsail.

PRISCILLA C is a small steam launch based on a Stuart Turner 5 A single cylinder engine of 2 1/4" bore and 2" stroke. It produces about 1/2 HP at 30 PSI from a water tube, wood fired boiler.

Dennis Williams believes this 11' skiff to have built sometime in the 1950s. It was restored by Fabian and Sachs restorations. It was a sailing skiff, which Dennis had converted to a rowing skiff. He uses her in the West River at Shady Side, MD.

15′ skiff DIABLO by Phil Bolger and taken from a Dynamite Payson book. I enjoyed this project. It was my first boat build. I tested with the outboard shown but will probably remove it. I modified the rear seat with a center seat, and added a bow seat. I took it out in San Diego bay.

CLC Annapolis Wherry, initially assembled in CLC-sponsored class, Port Townsend WA, 2012. Finished over summer and fall of 2013, launched January 2014. Stitch and glue construction, fiberglass added only in high-wear areas inside and out.

Seggerling racing dinghy, mahagony-okume combi marine plywood.
Racing Nr.: HUN-405
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After reading Mike O’Brien’s review of Oonagh in WB No. 237, David Keller thought it was just the boat to fit his needs. He hadn't built a boat before, didn’t let that prevent him from ordering plans from Doug Hylan (http://www.dhylanboats.com).

Dunwerkin is our first wooden boat. It’s a 14′ square stern kayak made of cedar. Runs like a dream. I am proud of it although I just paddle. I didn't build it. That job was left to a friend.

The canoe came from a restaurant in Kansas where it hung from the ceiling. All the old fiberglass had to be stripped off and refinished, and the end stems rebuilt.