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Rowboat #17 was developed over the course of 5 years. I had built 16 models to evaluate performance and ease of building. The main purpose was for pleasure rowing with my dogs Rowdy & Nala.
A CLC Noreaster Dory built in an apartment garage. She will be fitted with a sloop rig soon.
Each year the Door County Maritime Museum, www.dcmm.org, hosts a class in wooden boat building. This year’s volunteer class instructors, David Morgan, Bob Schottmuller and Jerry McNamara, chose Newfound Woodworks’ Whitehall pulling boat.
I built the M-Yak 500 in summer 2020.
It is sleek and fast sit-on-top kayak for one or two paddlers that can easily built in stitch-and-glue.
This is the most recent of two Abenaki kits I have built (materials supplied by Newfound Woodworks of Bristol, NH). It was a joy to build and even more fun to paddle. My wife and I launched this canoe on Drakes Creek in Franklin, KY on October 10th, 2021. It tracked nicely was very stable.
Launching Dancer, Rooster # 745, at the first annual Rooster Week, in 2014.
Scott Gifford's BLACK DUCK runabout can handle both the rough waters of Buzzards Bay and the shallows of the Westport River in Massachusetts. He framed the hull with white oak, then double-planked the bottom with eastern white cedar.
I built my John Welsford designed Houdini cat yawl in my garage. It took almost five years. The boat is constructed of okoume marine plywood, douglas fir and mahogany. The multi-chine hull was built with sawn plywood frames and douglas fir stringers.
Gloucester Rocking Dory.
This little gem caught my attention and was as much fun to build as it looks. Its exaggerated curves and wave inspired rockers give it a cartoonish quality. Turns out its a tad small for me so Ill be giving it to a future skipper...
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 by owner in 2023 to lines and offsets in The Dory Book by John Gardner.
BOAT SOLD! ENGINE STILL AVAILABLE
CHANTEY II - Douglas Fir Strip Planking, West System Epoxy construction. 51' overall.
