Launchings

I built her in Hamina at Etelä-Kymenlaakso Vocational College (Ekami) for scholarly thesis during October 2012- May 2013. The boat was built from a half-model. The half-model was found in 1912 at Sommers.

Martin Mittag, founder of the Wooden Boat Workshop of Norwalk, CT sent in this picture of 7 kayaks built at his workshop, during a three week project in the summer of 2003.

SOAR, launched November 2023.  8′ tender, glued lap construction, butternut thwart, western red cedar floor boards, cast bronze knees. 

Jack Fesenmeyer designed this 7' 6" rowing and sailing tender, built by owners Jerry and Scott Le Cocq in May and June of 2002. They have used her in the Pacific Northwest and Chesapeake Bay.

THE EMERALD is a Six-Hour canoe built by Roger Kofler of Jennings Lodge, Oregon. Roger followed plans in WoodenBoat No.

Jim Brossett has been busy. He launched two boats that he built in June 2011. He built this 14′ strip canoe from cypress with cherry accents.

After forty years of building skiffs and dories, first, under the tutelage of the old timer, Fred Tarbox, at Lowell’s Boat Shop and later as Parker River Boat Works, this will be my first published launching.

Bill Bornemann writes that he "built this 9' long, 4' beam, plywood skiff inspired by Howard Chapelle's description of the flat iron skiffs in his book, Small American Sailing Craft. She was assembled and painted in one day as part of his 50th birthday celebration.

I was having difficulty getting out of my SOT kayak and needed a small skiff to row around the lake near my house. I wanted something I could put in the back of my S10 pickup, so I chose the Hannu 10 1/2 foot skiff.

Spira international Galveston 19 completed.

90hp 4 stroke Yamaha
Oak trim and slatted floor
1 year build time
1000 hrs labor
Outside fiberglassed, inside paint with pettit EZ Bilge
Pettit Easypoxy for outside color
Home built console and leaning post