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Skin on frame canoe. Additional photos are on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/GibsonvilleBulletinBoard/photos/?tab=album&alb…
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Skin on frame canoe. Additional photos are on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/GibsonvilleBulletinBoard/photos/?tab=album&alb…
Chris Ireland built this 16′ Amberjack Dory from Iain Oughtred’s plans. The construction is glued lapstrake using Okoume marine plywood and West System epoxy. Stem and frames were laminated Douglas fir, ash breasthooks and gunwales, and white pine transom, thwarts and floorboards.
SHELBY is a 11'2" Shellback Dinghy built by Chris Ireland of Toronto, Canada. He built SHELBY over the winter of 2000-2001 and launched her into the Bay of Quinte at the eastern end of Lake Ontario in May 2001.
North Carolina resident Bob Curtis recently celebrated the launching of his BABY TENDER II in December 2017, when his granddaughter and brand-new boat captain, Laine Irene Butler, arrived home home from the hospital.
CAPITAL GAINES is a glass over plywood boat constructed with sapele frames, meranti marine plywood, with sapele and cypress accents. It’s powered with a Yamaha 70hp outboard motor.
Despite working at times “at a glacial pace” for two years, Stirling Cummings of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, finshed and launched his 18′ Night Heron kayak on a cold windy day in February 2012 on Jordan Lake, near Chapel Hill.
Designed by Bob Perry and built by the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding in Port Hadlock, WA, the FRANCIS LEE is a 62 foot double ended fractional sloop built of West System sheathed strip planked Western Red Cedar has successfully undergone sea trials and is now happily moored in Blakely H
This 17' Arctic Tern Kayak is Matt FitzGibbon's second boat. He built it from a kit by Pygmy Boats, Port Townsend, WA 98368. His children contributed to the building effort. He recommends the book Kayaks You Can Build by Ted Moores and back issues of WB for other would-be builders.
SHEILA is a Derwent Skiff designed by Allan Witt of Hobart; she is named after my late mother.
Michael Henderson of Gloucester, Ontario built SHUSHUGAH from a Sea Wolf Kit designed by Ray Folland Kayaks. She is built of plywood and epoxy using the stitch-and-glue method. He launched her at Go Home Bay on July 4, 2002.
This traditional built Chaisson Dory Tender with 2 rowing stations is in excellent condition.
Built by Landing Boat School. Brand new sails. Call for more pictures.
$7,500.
Available for $24,000 USD or $32,000 CAD.