STRIP-BUILT CANOE
Glen Rahtz has been busy: he built three canoes and launched an outboard skiff that he restored over the course of 2010-2011.
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Glen Rahtz has been busy: he built three canoes and launched an outboard skiff that he restored over the course of 2010-2011.
Relaunched: Phil Bolger designed Gloucester Light Dory built in 1987 by David Bush guided by ‘Dynamite’ Payson (4 x 16 marine ply, bronze ring-shank nails into red oak chine logs & glass /epoxy).
Marc Ornstein designed and built this boat for interpretive freestyle paddling and often paddles it with the boat heeled all the way to the gunwales. It is a 13' long solo sport canoe weighing 29 pounds.
Bob Linton of Rainbow Canoes designed and built this 20' x 37" asymmetrical flat-bottomed canoe with extreme tumblehome, caned seat backs, and a fan-shaped down wind sail.
After 13 years of part-time building, Bob Cosler, of Pasadena, Maryland launched ALEX-ELECTRA in July 2021. Built from Berkeley Engineering plans for the Candu EZ tug she is powered by a 10 hp golf cart motor running from six, 6 -volt Trojan batteries.
John Paul Burke grew up playing with friends Bob, Tony, and Linnie Streit. Now he has built a boat for the parents of his childhood friends, Rob and Charlie Streit.
Richard Knight built this Sassafras 14 canoe from a kit designed by CLC using 4 mm okoume planks, which resulted in a finished weight of just over 42 pounds. He found the lapstitch construction to work well, the hull easily came together straight and true.
Tom Wignall of Lakeville, MN is seen here sailing his new Arch Davis Sand Dollar design BAY DAWG on Pelican Lake in Breezy Point, MN. BAY DAWG, launched in June 2002, is 11'6" with a 42" beam. He constructed her with mahogany planking on oak and cedar frames, covered with System 3 epoxy.
Charles Rideout named this Joel White–designed Nutshell pram after his late son, calling her ALLAN'S AMERICA. In his letter, he said he received his plans from WoodenBoat Store on the same day he heard of Joel White's death.
FEATHER is a 16' cedar strip sea kayak Guilllemot design by Nick Schade of East Glastonbury, CT This is the first boat Mitchell Skinner built. It was launched in May 2002 and he uses it on the coast of Maine and NH.
This reproduction 19th/20th Century sprit-rig Core Sound Sailing Skiff was built in 2012, at the
QA17 will be at The Antique Boat Museum in Clayton, NY’s August 3rd auction with no reser
This was my first retirement project and my first boat build.