My love for the water, history and craftsmanship drew me to build my own sailboat. Arch Davis' Penobscot 17 was the perfect choice and a joy to build.
Miss Crab was built out of Cypress and Mahogany on Oak frames along the Tennessee River.
I've owned this boat for 2 years now. I'm not sure when she was built and has no makers mark on it but it is very well built and in good condition.
Living by of The Gulf of Finland I wanted to have a small boat that I could easily launch in the spring and take up before the ice covers the sea in the winter. I designed and built the lapstrake boat Kjerstin, named after my grandmother.
NEMAH features a stable, flat bottomed, sharpie type hull that can handle up to 3 passengers and a small outboard up to 5hp. Sides are ¼” plywood and the bottom is 3/8” plywood. A trussed gunnel rail insures hull stiffness.
Meghan has a constant deadrise V-bottom hull with a capacity of 1-2 passengers and features for & aft flotation chambers. Her rig consists of a 16ft free standing mast, 9′5″ wishbone boom and 65 square ft sail.
Dragon class was first designed by the Master designer Johan Anker as a 20 sq.m. The first build had a different rigg and are now called B-Dragon. My boat is #3 build by Hjalmar Johanson in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1931.
MYST is an Oughtred Elfyn, built in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and now sailing Puget Sound from Whidbey Island, Washington, USA. She features a lug rig, daggerboard, internal box rudder, and, ornate dragon stem and stern pieces. She rows beautifully and sails well.