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Sailboats - Daysailers
Exploration Ketch Tern
Designer
Tad Roberts
Tern is a lengthened (to 23'9') version of my earlier 20' design Ratty.
Sailboats - Cruising
20' 3" Sloop LITTLE GULL
Designer
Winthrop Warner
Round-bottomed pocket cruiser with room for an inboard auxiliary and accommodations for two.
Construction: Carvel planked over steamed frames.
Alternative construction: Cold-molded or strip
Lofting is required.
Plans include 11 sheets.
Oar / Paddle
Thomson 11' Skiff
Designer
Asa Thomson
Flat-bottomed rowing skiff elegant enough for a yacht tender.
Construction: Cross-planked bottom, lapstrake sides
No lofting is required
Plans include 1 sheet.
Oar / Paddle
Sassafras 12
Designer
Chesapeake Light Craft
An ultralight solo pack canoe weighing in at 26 lbs. Carry the boat in one hand, your paddle in the other.
Oar / Paddle
Stickleback Canoe
Designer
Iain Oughtred
Construction: Glued lapstrake plywood. Alternative construction: Traditional planking, cold molded, strip plank, epoxy-fiberglass. No Lofting required. Plans include 5 sheets.
Sailboats - Cruising
18' Swampscott, JOHN DORY
Designer
Iain Oughtred
A refinement of the traditional Swampscott working dory for recreational use.
Plans include nine different rigs.
Construction: Glued lapstrake plywood over sawn frames.
Alternative construction: Traditional dory construction.
No lofting required.
Oar / Paddle
16' Double-Ended Pulling Boat, SHEARWATER
Designer
Joel White
Norwegian-influenced rowing/sailing craft designed for glued-lap plywood construction.
Constuction: Glued lapstrake plywood
No lofting is required.
Plans include 8 sheets.
Motorboats - Outboard
Tolman Skiff Widebody
Designer
Renn Tolman
Tolman Skiffs are thoroughly modern, ocean capable, vee bottom stitch and glue plywood boats with a dory ancestry. These skiffs are designed for Alaskan waters and are ideal for sport fishing, beach camping, cruising and general work or recreation.
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John Welsford Seagull Dory
Custom Builder. Length 15' 3",; beam 4' 1", weight 93#. Marine grade Okoume plywood.
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New England Classic $8,500
Excellent condition and freshly painted, custom 16’ Amesbury Skiff 2003, Oak Frame, lapstrake ced
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Classic 1903 Wooden Yawl "Witchcraft II"
Own a rare piece of sailing history! Witchcraft II, designed by B.B.
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