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Mark Esdaile built this dory rocking boat for his granddaughter, Perri, aged 14 months. PERRIWINKLE is 3′ long by 18″ wide. Mark built her with scrap hoop pine plywood, pine shelving, epoxy, and love.
At just 39 pounds, this canoe is designed for easy portages in Derek Coleman's home waters of Killarney Park, Ontario. Derek designed an asymmetric hull with an adjustable, removable seat and nicely decorated bow stern decks.
Vince Trtan used a lot of 40-grit sandpaper in the restoration of this Old Town canoe, HW model, hull #150314-7. After sanding off the old canvas, he made new gunwales, keel, seats, and decks. Then he had to replace several ribs and planks.
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.
EMMY is a 1936 wooden Cape Cod Baby Knockabout (#51) built at Cape Cod Shipbuilding in Wareham, MA. EMMY is 18 feet long and has a beam of 5'10". She had been stored at Hall's Boatyard at Lake George, NY for 25 years, before being rescued by Joe O'Neill and his wife.
This boat took me 4 years in spare time to design and build. It has oak frames and spruse planking, the decks are chery and the transom and thorts are mahogany.
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.
1n 1999, David and Pauline Latham of Sydney, Australia asked James Frecheville to restore this Chris-Craft mahogany runabout, SILVER GULL, which was built about 1941. David's family had owned the boat since 1952.
Kurt and Joan Magnusson restored this rowboat and re-launched it the summer of 2002. They found the boat at a yardsale in NH and bought it for $20. They replaced 11 ribs and all of the fastenings. They hired Skylar Thomson of Thomson Canoeworks in Connecticut to recanvas the boat.
Built in 1940 by Ira Hall in Seattle. Ed Monk design. 22' loa and 20' on deck.
Tegolin is a 26ft Maurice Griffiths 'Athene' design with triple keels and 3ft draft.
Adirondack boat- 3' beam, shallow draft, approximately 70lbs, cedar strip, maple oars, epoxy shel
