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Miles Macedo of North Providence, Rhode Island, launched his 3′ rocker dory on Christmas Day, 2012. His grandfather, Rod Fuqua, built the boat with cedar planking and oak stem and transom.
Bounty was built and launched in the UK by Mark Evans of Kentish Boats. With a set of 6′ 10″ oars it rows very easily and can take 367lbs of people or kit.
Dan Cassidy was a member of Bob Elliott's WoodenBoat School summer of 2000 class, "Building the Salisbury Point Skiff." Dan was lucky enough to win the boat in the class drawing and hauled it to Cushing, Maine where Ed Mezzapelle finished her between April and August 2001.
Lee Rea sent in his recently completed Ken Hankinson runabout, RETROSPECTIVE.
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.
This Offshore Skiff designed by Dave Gerr met all of the requirements Glenn Joyner was looking for in a boat he could use to cruise the sound near his North Carolina home. Glenn wanted a boat that could comfortably sleep two, with standing headroom, head, and galley.
I found the plans in the back of “The Dory Book”, by John Gardner after looking high and low for a boat I thought I could build. This boat fit the bill. Besides requiring only average skills to build, it is also light, pretty, rowable, seaworthy and cheap to operate.
Built from plans by Eric Schade, sold thru Chesapeake Light Craft. Okoume plywood hull, Western red cedar and Northern white cedar deck. My grandson had outgrown his 8′ Duckling (also by Eric Schade) I made for his ninth birthday and chose this for his 15th birthday.
Brian Mardall, of London, England, designed and built this car-toppable rowing boat weighing just 65 lbs. He calls it an East Anglian Gun Punt, and likens it to a Louisiana pirogue. Brian used plywood, Douglas-fir, and mahogany in his construction of NORFOLK TURTLE.
Sweet-lined Acorn skiff designed by Iain Oughtred, completed in 1999 but still like new.
PLEASE save our 94 year old Mother's beloved sailboat from the burn pile!
MORNING SONG is the sistership to Lin and Larry Pardey's TALEISIN and was meticulously built by K
