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CRICKET
Year Built:
1983
CRICKET is an 18 foot wooden catboat with a bowsprit and a small jib. She is rigged with a spinnaker halyard but we have never tried to fly a spinnaker on her. She is framed in oak and planked with mahogany. Down below she has a small wood burning stove and sink along with 2 berths.
BISOUS
Year Built:
Late 50’s
Old Town “White Cap” sailing dinghy. 13.5′ centerboard sloop, likely late 1950’s build but have been unable to locate her hull number.
S/Y ELISE
Builder Name:
Miilu-Boats Ltd
S/Y ELISE is a custom build boat to fit our customers needs. She is a replica of French boat from Victorian era, design #203 by Paul Gartside Designs. Her hull was build at the Ekami Woodenboat Building School, Hamina, Finland but due to unfortunately issues she was never completed there.
AYLA
Year Built:
2021
AYLA is a 12 foot wooden rowboat titled & registered with the Virginia Dept. of Wildlife Resources boat division, with a USCG HIN, designed for a 8HP Tohatsu outboard engine, built during the Spring 2021 and splashed in the James River in early August 2021 ...
AYLA
Builder Name:
Robert J. Walters
AYLA is my first attempt at boat building a 12 foot wooden rowboat engineered for an outboard (8hp Tohatsu) and was titled and registered by the Virginia Dept.
RYE 'N SKYE
Builder Name:
Jim McLeod
After 20 + years RYE 'N SKYE was finished and launched (receipt for the rough cut cedar was dated July 1999).
GRACE
Builder Name:
Rob & Seryn Lincoln
Our boat GRACE is an Iain Oughtred designed Auk tender. This boat is our first boat building project and came about when a friend experienced in boat building offered his assistance. With no woodworking experience we began with great trepidation.