Launchings

Cedar strip canoe

This heavy duty version of the Digger 17 skiff adds 6 inches of freeboard and optional self-bailing in addition to modified Bosworth check valves installed on the transom. Marine grade plywood, mahogany, cedar, douglas fir, and brazilian cherry used in the build.

Stretched version of Caledonian Yawl (with approval of the designer Iain Oughtred stretched by 2'6")

Bill Warm restored his Seaford Skiff in 2009 and says that he built the skiff in 1999.

Hope is a semi-dory built according to plans supplied by John Karbott. She will be rowed and powered by a 5hp outboard on the Westport and Sakonnet rivers. This is my first boat. It took six months to complete, and was a perfect complement to my work as a psychologist!

Lee Rea sent in his recently completed Ken Hankinson runabout, RETROSPECTIVE.

David Russell, David Russell, Jr., and James Brownlee built this modified 16′ Catfish Beachcruiser over the summer of 2007, and launched her in August 2007 in Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina. The design is by Phil Bolger.

4 different cedars with a mahogany trim, she’s a joy to row.Newfound Woodworks designed kit.

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.

Jackie Lih, age 7, helped her father, Arthur, to build this 8′ Grace's Tender from a kit by Arch Davis. They made the hull from 4mm okoume plywood on white pine frames.