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RUBY

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Bob & Cindy

Cedar strip canoe

Woodie

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Tom Cullison

Chesapeake 17 hybrid kit. Stitch & glue hull, cedar strip deck.

John Parrish built this Tandem Annapolis Wherry from a kit by Chesapeake Light Craft. He writes that at 19′10″, it is 3′ longer than the one-man version of the same boat, and that it was the first one that CLC put into kit form.

Anemone

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Nate Spencer-Mork

I fell in love with the Biscayne Bay 14 when I first came to Woodenboat School 30 years ago. Life intervened, and it took nearly 30 years before I built a boat from the plans I bought way back when. She is largely built according to the how-to articles in WoodenBoat issues 96-98.

Canoe

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Freida’s team at WoodenBoat School Aug 2010. Finishing by Bob

Wood canvas canoe built 2010 at WoodenBoat School under instruction from Jerry Stelmok. Launched September 10, 2012 Sabine Bay Pensacola Beach Florida.

Rawson

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Daniel Etcheverry

I’m a fishing guide in Patagonia Argentina. A while ago I decided I wanted to build a drift boat. I got in touch with designer Jeff Spira and gave him a detailed account of how I was planning on using the boat and he came up with the Rawson.

GUILLE

Guillemot design kayak.
Strip plank cedar.

Rescued (not my build) and have stripped off 3 kgs of paint and bits.
More to do over time.
Beautiful already.

Oar & Paddle

Small Dog Boatworks and Kayak and Sail Lynn Launch Two Canoes

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Small Dog Boatworks, Lynn English HS

Starting work in a cold, 14º garage over February break, continuing the effort over April vacation, the team from Lynn English HS, Lynn MA wrapped up two "6-hour Canoe" builds and partially completed a third boat this past June 21!

JUN BUG

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Marc Ornstein

Marc Ornstein designed and built this boat for interpretive freestyle paddling and often paddles it with the boat heeled all the way to the gunwales. It is a 13' long solo sport canoe weighing 29 pounds.

BLACK DAMSEL

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Lorenz Rutz

BLACK DAMSEL is a Ken Bassett Firefly design, plans from WoodenBoat. Bassett’s plans call for plywood fastened to stem, keelson and chine logs. I wanted to build this boat stitch and glue to simplify things and hopefully reduce the weight.