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.
Through connections within The Traditional Small Craft Association, I received word that there was a dory built by John Gardner, looking for a new home just north of my home on the West Coast of Florida.
For more information on the history of the type and the model, see my other wooden boat registered sharpie "Lyova Marie" https://www.woodenboat.com/register-wooden-boats/lyova-marie.
Jaakko Toiviainen found in fall 2021 a neglegted Haven 12,5 bare hull in the corner of the boat hall where he kept his sailing yacht. It appeared that the hull had been built by a professional boatbuilder some twenty years ago, but for some reason never completed.
Just brought home this Penguin class dinghy. Plan is to strip and re-finish as much as I can.