Launchings

This molded mahogany plywood boat's hull was made in Canada in 1942. It was sent to the states and the sternboard was installed by the Magnavox Corporation. My father acquired it in 1963 for $60.

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.

Pete McDonald and John Sherwood created this 12′ x 8′ pontoon boat to their own design, and called the BUCKEYE PADDLER. She is built with three pontoons, two with deep-v bottoms, the other flat bottomed.  Two 30″ paddlewheels propel her through the lakes of eastern Ohio.

A wooden paddle board built by Matthew Young in Santa Fe NM. Built out of plywood and local ponderosa pine to builders own design. Intended for standup paddling, sit on top kayaking, fishing ,and lounging. Picture is Deva Sign Kalsa on Heron Lake Chama, NM.

SHEILA is a Derwent Skiff designed by Allan Witt of Hobart; she is named after my late mother.

Shell Boats of St. Albans, VT, provided the design for this 12' Swifty built by Arnie Goodman and his son Sam, of Tampa, FL. They launched her on May 31, 2004 on Tampa Bay, FL. She is of lapstrake plywood construction with an unstayed mast and sprit boom.

Bob Sack of Covesville, Virginia, built this Catspaw Dinghy model using plans and an instruction book from the WoodenBoat

San Francisco Pelican built by George Weinbrenner. Designed by Captain Bill Short. Sails in the lakes and coastal waters of North Carolina.

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.

Using Nick Schade's book,  "The Strip-Built Sea Kayak," Perry Risley built this 17' x 21' Guilllemot kayak and paddle. He made both boat and paddle of ash and Western red cedar with white accents of poplar. He mentions that Michael Earle was a tremendous help to him.