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Wyn Menafee of Palmer, Alaska, and Roger Burleigh of Anchorage, Alaska, each built a Penobscot 17 from Arch Davis Designs.
CLC designed this touring Chesapeake 17LT kayak (16'11" x 231/4"), which was built by Boone Brewer of Smyrna, GA. He plans to use it in the Gulf of Mexico near St. Theresa, FL. Boone used stitch-and-glue construction of okoume plywood, covering the hull and decks with fiberglass cloth and epoxy.
Craig Bjarnason spent two years part-time building his Rob Macks Panache Kayak (18'4" x 22.5" ) The hull is knotty Western red cedar covered with 6 oz fiberglass cloth and epoxy. The trim is made from local Manitoba poplar.
Alan Powell uses this 9' skiff for fishing and exploring the Berowra Waters on the Hawkesbury River, north of Sydney, Australia. She is a Karl Stambaugh "Weekend Skiff 3" design that appears in the book Good Skiffs.
This skiff was built at the Woods Hole Historical Museum Boatshop in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, from leftover parts and materials from from other projects. It is built from BS1088 marine plywood, local black locust, red oak, and mahogany.
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).
This is a copy of the XVIII century boat. She belonged to the Russian emperor Peter first. The original is now stored in the Naval Museum, in Sank-Petersburg, Russia.
Built at our winter home in Belize from local woods: Honduras mahogany for frames, stringers, etc; Spanish cedar for the planks.
Jay Benford designed this 34'x11' sailing dory. Hugh Campbell of Winard Wood Ltd, Sidney, British Columbia, Canada built it for Alan Martienssen of Newark, England. Launched in July 2000, it was named ZEBEDEE after a British Cartoon character.
Max Buckland couldn't be happier with his 9′ Kidyak, MAXINE, built for him by his grandfather Alan Deforest of Wilimington, North Carolina, and presented to Max on Christmas Day, 2011.
Cadenza was built in 2003 by Rockport Marine from a design by L. Frances Herreshoff.
