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New to both boating and boat construction, newly retired Ed Cataldo needed a project to keep him out of trouble. He saw Arch Davis' Penobscot 14 design while at the barbershop. Despite his lack of skill, he found Arch's instrctions.
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New to both boating and boat construction, newly retired Ed Cataldo needed a project to keep him out of trouble. He saw Arch Davis' Penobscot 14 design while at the barbershop. Despite his lack of skill, he found Arch's instrctions.
Randy Bond built this 18' skin-on-frame canoe from plans of the MicMac model by David Hazen. The wales, keel, and stems are made from ironwood. The frames and stringers are white cedar. The skin is ballistic nylon coated with polyurethane varnish.
David Lester sails this boat in Puget Sound near his home in Fox Island, WA. She is a Clancy class sailing dinghy designed by J. D. Brown and Bob Pickett of Anacortes, WA. David constructed her of 1/4" okoume plywood using the stitch-and-glue method. She has a 9'9" LOA with a beam of 4'.
Sue Gaire’s first attempt at building a wooden boat turned out beautifully when she launched ARROW from a small beach at Ponce de Leon Park in Punta Gorda, Florida, last summer.
Flossie is, essentially, a New Haven Sharpie. She has been modified for use as a canal boat. 49' loa 11.5' beam 2.5' draft 16,500 disp.. Her chines have been truncated to provide a flat surface lying alongside a straight bank.
Classic 17′ Whitehall pulling boat. Her lines are based on boat nearly 150 years old. Glued lapstrake, planking made of Vendia Marine Plank. She has two Alden Drop in Row Wings and three places for those. So she can be rowed as a double or a single.
The Swan is a CLC Light Craft “Wood Duckling 8” built over a two week period by 9 year-old McKenzie Kaufman and her grandfather Charles McParland of Tega Cay, SC. She was launched on August 6th on Lake Wylie in South Carolina.
Beetlecat Hull # 43. Originally constructed in 1946. Reframed and replaced transom, keel, and centerboard box. Parts of deck and hull needed to be replaced. Work resembled an archeological dig. In places there were iron fasteners, bronze fasteners and stainless steel screws.
Recently completed Night Heron high deck strip-built from a CLC Kit.This is a modified high-deck with the deck re-drawn to preserve all the knee height of the high deck but substantially flattening out the deck center-line... in a style inspired by Nick’s Petrel.
Early September saw the launching of cedar strip planked Stand-Up-Paddleboard, designed and built by Andrew J. Malcomb of Dwarka Boatworks in Central Mass.
“CHARM” is an 85′ LOA schooner originally designed to be a personal yacht that was built and fini
Built in 1933 as a commercial NC “sink netter”, “Sylvia II” has been totally restored and rebuilt
William Shaw design, 24' Yawl with shoal keel and centerboard, built 1958 in Denmark.